Godzilla vs. Megaguirus
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| Directed by | Masaaki Tezuka |
| Produced by | Shogo Tomiyama |
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Wataru Mimura Hiroshi Kashiwabara |
| Starring | Misato Tanaka Shosuke Tanihara Yuriko Hoshi Masatoh Eve Toshiyuki Nagashima |
| Music by | Michiru Oshima |
| Cinematography | Masahiro Kishimoto |
| Edited by | Yoshiyuki Okuhara |
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| Distributed by | Toho |
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105 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Budget | $8.3 million (est.) |
| Box office | $10 million |
Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (ゴジラ × メガギラス G消滅作戦 Gojira tai Megagirasu: Jī Shōmetsu Sakusen?, also known as Godzilla X Megaguirus: The G Extermination Strategy) is a 2000 Japanese science fiction tokusatsu kaiju film featuring Godzilla, produced and distributed by Toho. It is the 25th film in the Godzilla franchise, the 24th Godzilla film produced by Toho, and the second film in the Millennium series. The film is directed by Masaaki Tezuka and written by Hiroshi Kashiwabara and Wataru Mimura. The film premiered at the Tokyo International Film Festival on November 3, 2000. While the film uses the Godzilla suit from Godzilla 2000, it is not connected to the previous film.
The prologue of the film acknowledges the events of the first Godzilla film (using the present Godzilla monster rather than the 1954 monster), while inventing its own timeline, explaining that the capital of Japan was moved from Tokyo to Osaka. The film takes place in an alternate universe with advanced technology, explaining that in 1966, Godzilla attacks the first Japanese nuclear plant in Tokai, Ibaraki Prefecture. After this, a section of Japanese Self Defence Force was dedicated to fight Godzilla, and was called G-Graspers. In 1996, clean plasma energy replaced nuclear energy, however this did not deter Godzilla from attacking. Plasma energy is also banned, due to the fact that Godzilla attacked the original plasma energy reactor.
In 2001, an experimental satellite-based weapon that fires miniature black holes, called the Dimension Tide, opens a wormhole through which a prehistoric dragonfly enters the present and deposits a single egg before exiting through the wormhole. A boy finds the egg and takes it with him when he moves to Tokyo. The egg starts oozing a strange liquid, so the boy throws the egg in the sewer. The egg, actually a mass of hundreds of eggs, splits up and starts growing when exposed to water, hatching into large dragonfly larva called Meganulon that come out of the sewer to feed. They flood a portion of the city and moult on the sides of buildings, becoming adult Meganula.
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