Akihiko Hirata, Katsuhika Sasaki, Katsuhiko Sasaki, Kenji Sahara, Masaski Diamon ...( see more  see more... ) , Tadao Nakamana , Tomoke Ai , Tomoko Ai

In 1974, Inoshiro Honda, the original and best Godzilla director, returned after a five-year absence to direct this 20th-anniversary commemoration to Gojira (the original Japanese name for Godzilla, b...( read more  read more... )efore the West Anglicized it). This is the fifteenth film in the Godzilla series, and the eleventh by director Honda. Yet again the aliens (from the third planet of the black hole, whatever that means; they don't really provide directions) stage a takeover of Earth, this time with the aid of Mechagodzilla and Titanosaurus (they're just what they sound like). They owe the mad scientist Mafuni for the use of Titanosaurus, who in turn owes the aliens for resurrecting his daughter, Katsura, badly hurt in an accident, albeit now as a cyborg with the ability to control their two mecha-monsters. It shapes up as the fight of the century when Godzilla is pressed into service for our side. The battling behemoths afford the most dramatic and vivid fight scenes in all of Godzilladom in this one. Let's hope the aliens don't win; they're so smug. --Jim Gay

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G, 89 min.

Directed by: Ishirô Honda

Release Date: June 1, 1975

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DVD Release Date: May 5, 1998

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  • June 21, 2008
    Not the best plot, and, w/ the exception of the opening credits, you don't even get to see the big G but for a couple of minutes in the first 2/3 of the film. Even the title character (Mechagodzilla) doesn't get any action time for the same 2/3, the film focusing primarily on Tit...( read more)anosaurus.
  • July 2, 2008
    Great Godzilla fun.
  • December 19, 2009
    Once more evil aliens use Mechagodzilla and the lame Titanosaurus to take over the Earth but luckily for us we have the Big G to take care of them. Love it.
  • November 22, 2009
    Cheesey and asinine, like any good Godzilla movie should be. Fun, in an "OMG! They made this" kind of way.
  • October 18, 2008
    The aliens have traded their ape-masks for silly helmets, and enlisted the aid of a mad scientist and his dinosaur which is psychically controlled by his cyborg daughter. BRILLIANT! The bulk of this movie just drags, but Titanosaurus is a great kaiju, and every battle scene in th...( read more)e movie is great too.
  • June 29, 2008
    Mechagodzilla has always been onr of my favorite Godzilla villians.
  • May 5, 2008
    tHIS WAS THE LAST OF GHE ORIGINAL SERIES OF gODZILLA. tHEY SEEMED TO HAVE LOST THEIR WAY.
  • February 6, 2008
    A great villain always deserves a second appearance and Toho studios knows that as well as anybody. So a year after GODZILLA VS. MECHAGODZILLA, Toho brought the cybernetic doppelganger of its main monster star back to the screen. This time around, they also brought back composer ...( read more)Akira Ifukube and director Ishiro Honda--in his final directorial effort in the series. The tone this time is quite a bit darker than previous entries but it's still just a lot of fun. The Godzilla suit has been hardened a bit, thankfully, though it still looks a bit like Smokey the Bear. The new monster, Titanosaurus, is a memorable and entertaining creation. The direction is a bit uneven at times, but overall it's very well-done. Any Godzilla fan should have a terrific time watching this. Thanks to Classic Media it's now available uncut, the way it was meant to be seen. Just be aware that the original Japanese version contains nudity and thus is probably not suitable for younger viewers.
  • November 23, 2007
    The human drama is thought out but slow. Despite the more grim tone, Godzilla is once again made out into a child-friendly hero.
  • October 4, 2007
    I love how MechaGodzilla spends half the movie flying back and forth. And that rightously angry pilot lol. Luckily there's some aliens to keep Godzilla busy while MechaG finds out what he wants...

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  • MaXthOm
    October 14, 2006
    They got Gojira perfectly in this one

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