Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
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| Directed by | Ishirō Honda |
| Produced by | Tomoyuki Tanaka |
| Screenplay by | Shinichi Sekizawa |
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| Music by | Akira Ikufube |
| Cinematography | Hajime Koizumi |
| Edited by | Ryohei Fujii |
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| Distributed by | Toho |
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92 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (三大怪獣 地球最大の決戦 San Daikaijū: Chikyū Saidai no Kessen?, lit. Three Giant Monsters: The Greatest Battle on Earth) is a 1964 Japanese science-fiction kaiju film produced by Toho. Directed by Ishirō Honda, and featuring special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya, the film starred Yosuke Natsuki, Hiroshi Koizumi, and Akiko Wakabayashi. It is the fifth film in the Godzilla series, and was the second Godzilla film produced that year (production began following Mothra vs. Godzilla).
The film was released theatrically in the United States in the autumn of 1965 by Continental Distributing as Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster.
Police Detective Shindo (Yosuke Natsuki) is assigned to guard Princess Selina Salno of Selgina (Akiko Wakabayashi) during the Princess' visit to Japan, due to a suspected assassination plot. Although Shindo is smitten with Selina's photograph, her plane never makes it to Japan, as it is destroyed by a bomb en route. At exactly the same time a meteorite shower draws the attention of Professor Murai (Hiroshi Koizumi), who along with his team of scientists strikes out into the wilderness to examine the largest of the meteors, which has magnetic properties.
To Shindo's surprise, the supposedly deceased Selina turns up in Japan, without her royal garb (including the golden bracelet that proves she is heir to the throne of Selgina), claiming to be from the planet Mars, and preaching to skeptical crowds of forthcoming disaster. To their surprise however, her prophecies begin coming true. First she predicts Rodan, thought dead in the eruption of Mt. Aso, will emerge from Aso's crater. Subsequently, none other than Godzilla will arise from the sea and destroy a ship. Both of these events transpire.
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