Mothra vs. Godzilla
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Japanese film poster for Mothra vs. Godzilla
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| Directed by | Ishiro Honda |
| Produced by | Tomoyuki Tanaka |
| Screenplay by | Shinichi Sekizawa |
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| Music by | Akira Ifukube |
| Cinematography | Hajime Koizumi |
| Edited by | Ryohei Fujii |
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| Distributed by | Toho |
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88 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
Mothra vs. Godzilla (モスラ対ゴジラ Mosura tai Gojira?, also known as Godzilla vs. The Thing and Godzilla vs. Mothra) is a 1964 Japanese science fiction kaiju film featuring Godzilla, produced and distributed by Toho. It is the fourth film in the Godzilla film series and is directed by Ishirō Honda, featuring special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya and stars Akira Takarada, Kenji Sahara and Hiroshi Koizumi, and Haruo Nakajima as Godzilla.
News reporter Ichiro Sakai and photographer Junko Nakanishi take pictures of a wreckage caused by a typhoon. They uncover a strange, bluish-gray object in the debris, not knowing its significance. Later that day, a giant egg is discovered on the shore. The local villagers salvage it, and an entrepreneur of Happy Enterprises named Kumayama buys the egg from the local villagers. Instead of letting scientists study the egg, Kumayama wants to make it into a large tourist attraction. Later, Sakai and Nakanishi are informed that the strange object they found is extremely radioactive. (It is later hinted that this is a skin particle from Godzilla.)
While Sakai, Nakanishi, and scientist Professor Miura are discussing the egg at a hotel, they discover Kumayama checking in. Kumayama meets with Jiro Torahata, the head of Happy Enterprises. They are unexpectedly confronted by tiny twin girls known as the Shobijin and try to capture them. The Shobijin escape and meet with Sakai, Nakanishi and Professor Miura. They explain that the egg belongs to Mothra. If the egg hatches, the larva (though they have no quarrel with man) will still cause great damage looking for food. The trio agree to help.
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