Son of Godzilla
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| Directed by | Jun Fukuda |
| Produced by | Tomoyuki Tanaka |
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Shinichi Sekizawa Kazue Shiba |
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Tadao Takashima Akira Kubo Bibari Maeda Akihiko Hirata Yu Sekida Seiji Onaka |
| Music by | Masaru Sato |
| Cinematography | Kazuo Yamada |
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| Distributed by | Toho |
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86 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Budget | $900,000 |
Son of Godzilla, released in Japan as Kaijū-tō no Kessen Gojira no Musuko (怪獣島の決戦 ゴジラの息子?, lit. "Monster Island's Decisive Battle: Son of Godzilla"), is a 1967 Japanese science fiction kaiju film produced by Toho. Directed by Jun Fukuda with special effects by Sadamasa Arikawa (supervised by Eiji Tsuburaya), the film starred Tadao Takashima, Akira Kubo, and Akihiko Hirata. The eighth film in the Godzilla series, it was also the second of two island-themed Godzilla adventures that Toho produced with slightly smaller budgets than most of the Godzilla films from this time period. Continuing the trend of shifting the series towards younger audiences, the film introduced an infant Godzilla named Minilla.
The film was released straight to television in the United States in 1969 by the Walter Reade organization.
A team of scientists are trying to perfect a weather-controlling system. Their efforts are hampered by the arrival of a nosy reporter and by the sudden presence of 2-meter tall giant mantises. The first test of the weather control system goes awry when the remote control for a radioactive balloon is jammed by an unexplained signal coming from the center of the island. The balloon detonates prematurely, creating a radioactive storm that causes the giant mantises to grow to enormous sizes. Investigating the mantises, which are named Kamacuras (Gimantis in the English-dubbed version), the scientists find the monstrous insects digging an egg out from under a pile of earth. The egg hatches, revealing a baby Godzilla. The scientists realize that the baby's telepathic cries for help were the cause of the interference that ruined their experiment. Shortly afterwards, Godzilla arrives on the island in response to the infant's cries, demolishing the scientist's base while rushing to defend the baby. Godzilla kills two of the Kamacuras during the battle while one manages to fly away to safety, Godzilla then adopts the baby.
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