| Mothra vs. Godzilla | |
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| Credits | |
| Title: | Mothra vs. Godzilla |
| Director: | Ishirô Honda |
| Writers: | Shin'ichi Sekizawa |
| Producers: | Sanezumi Fujimoto Tomoyuki Tanaka |
| Composer: | Akira Ifukube |
| Cinematography: | Hajime Koizumi |
| Editors: | Ryôhei Fujii |
| Production | |
| Distributed by: | Toho Company, Ltd. |
| Released: | April 29th, 1964 |
| Rating: | Unrated |
| Running time: | 89 min. |
| Country: | Japan |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Gross: | ¥2,200,000,000 |
| Navigation | |
| Previous: | King Kong vs. Godzilla |
| Next: | Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster |
Mothra vs. Godzilla is a Japanese science fiction feature film of the tokusatsu ("suitmation") and daikaiju ("giant monster") genres. It is the fifth film in Godzilla film series. It was directed by Ishirô Honda with a screenplay written by Shin'ichi Sekizawa. It premiered in Japan on April 29th, 1964. It was first screened in the United States on September 17th, 1964.
Cast[]
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Akira Takarada | Ichiro Sakai |
| Yuriko Hoshi | Junko Nakanishi |
| Hiroshi Koizumi | Professor Miura |
| Yû Fujiki | Jiro Nakamura |
| Kenji Sahara | Jiro Torahata |
| Emi Itô | Shobijin |
| Yumi Itô | Shobijin |
| Yoshifumi Tajima | Kumayama |
| Jun Tazaki | Murata |
| Kenzô Tabu | Mayor |
| Yoshio Kosugi | Chief of Infant Island |
| Akira Tani | Village headman |
| Susumu Fujita | JSDF general |
| Yutaka Sada | School principal |
| Ikio Sawamura | Priest |
| Ren Yamamoto | Sailor |
| Kôzô Nomura | Soldier |
| Yasuhisa Tsutsumi | Police officer |
| Mitsuo Tsuda | Unknown |
| Shin Ôtomo | Police officer |
| Senkichi Ômura | Villager |
| Miki Yashiro | School teacher |
| Kôji Iwamoto | Unknown |
| Terumi Oka | Unknown |
| Wataru Ômae | Islander |
| Shirô Tsuchiya | Unknown |
| Takuzô Kumagai | Unknown |
| Kôji Uno | Villager |
| Yutaka Nakayama | Islander |
| Toshihiko Furuta | Soldier |
| Hideo Shibuya | Journalist |
| Kôji Uruki | Unknown |
| Kenzô Echigo | Unknown |
| Yukihiko Gondô | Unknown |
| Kôichi Satô | Unknown |
| Hiroshi Akitsu | Unknown |
| Tadashi Okabe | Soldier |
| Haruya Sakamoto | Unknown |
| Seishirô Kuno | Aide |
| Hiroshi Takagi | Unknown |
| Keisuke Yamada | Unknown |
| Shinjirô Hirota | Unknown |
| Shigemi Sunagawa | Unknown |
| Ikuo Kawamura | Unknown |
| Rinsaku Ogata | Unknown |
| Katsumi Tezuka | Mothra |
| Haruo Nakajima | Godzilla |
Notes & Trivia[]
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- The original Japanese title for this film is Mosura tai Gojira (モスラ対ゴジラ). Both links redirect to this page.
- The character of Godzilla was created by director Ishirô Honda and writers Shigeru Kayama and Takeo Murata. He first appeared in the 1954 science fiction film Gojira.
- The character of Mothra was created by director Ishirô Honda and writer Shin'ichi Sekizawa. It first appeared in the 1961 film Mothra.
- Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964) redirects to this page.
- There are a total of forty-eight credited cast members in this film.
- Parts of this movie were filmed in Nagoya, Aichi in Japan.
- This movie was released during the Shōwa period.
- For the American release of the film, the title was changed to Godzilla vs. the Thing.
- This movie was released the same year as Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, which premiered in December.
- This movie is thematically remade in 1992 as Godzilla vs. Mothra, which is part of the Heisei period.
- The newspaper editor, Murata, may be named after Takeo Murata, who was a co-writer on the original Gojira.
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