Akira Takarada, Yuriko Hoshi, Hiroshi Koizumi

More visually splendid and imaginatively written than the other Godzilla sequels, this (the fourth in the series) starts when Mothra's gigantic egg washes ashore in Japan, having been dislodged from M...( read more  read more... )othra's Infant Island by a hurricane. Two tiny twin girls (sometimes singing like dual-diminutive Dorothy Lamours) from the island come to plead for the return of the egg by the greedy business guys who bought it for a tourist attraction, but to no avail. Godzilla is awakened, and proceeds to threaten the egg and the cities, unless Mothra and his larvae hatched from the egg can stop him. The battle sequences between Mothra and Godzilla, and between Godzilla and the larvae, are spectacularly vivid and colorful.

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Unrated, 88 min.

Directed by: Ishirô Honda

Release Date: September 17, 1964

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DVD Release Date: May 5, 1998

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  • September 25, 2009
    Mothra was shit, he's just a big stupid moth! This is a classic though!
  • February 27, 2008
    I really dig this film; this is so well done, given the fact that we're talking here about some giant moth's egg being attacked by a giant... marmot-headed monster with apparent mental insufficiency.
  • January 21, 2008
    Giant moth...
  • January 17, 2008
    Sure Mothra was made to bring the ladies into theaters, but those Twinkies are my wife's favourites. Mooothora! Moooth oooo raaa haa haa haa.
  • November 22, 2009
    Better plotted and more fun than others, this one even has some solid SFX and a message.
  • June 25, 2009
    I can't understand how anyone can give this movie a high rating. The movie is totally absurd, the special effects are dreadful - even for the time period. The acting is atrocious, the story is incredibly stupid. The giant moth looks like a bumble bee in drag. Yuk!
  • June 4, 2009
    One of the more memorable Godzilla movies, probably because of the mini singers.
  • October 19, 2008
    A lot goofier than I remember it being, and it is just embarrassing for Godzilla to be defeated by a pair of larvae shooting silk at him, but this movie is still one of the better Showa-era films and definitely entertaining.
  • September 26, 2008
    ....................
  • June 29, 2008
    I love the old Godzilla's, they are so funny.

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