Godzilla

7.1

After a volcanic eruption on Daikoku Island, the Yahata-Maru Japanese fishing vessel is caught in strong currents off its shores the island begins to erupt, and a giant monster lifts itself out of the volcano reporter…

Godzilla

7.8

When the ocean's surface begins to boil white-hot and a Japanese freighter Eiko-maru vanishes into the Pacific, the superstitious villagers of Odo Island Fishing mysteriously drop to zero elder fear an ancient legend…

Godzilla Minus One

8.5

Post-war Japan is at its lowest point when a new crisis emerges in the form of a giant monster baptized in the horrific power of the atomic bomb. (Source: IMDb)

Shin Godzilla

7.7

All of the sudden, a giant creature immediately appears, destroying town after town plunged into chaos with its landing reaching the capital. This mysterious giant monster is named "Godzilla".

Godzilla vs. Destoroyah

7.4

Birth Island, home of Godzilla is destroyed and it is discovered that Godzilla has developed a bright flaming glow, proving his nuclear energy is out of control. Fearing Godzilla will soon explode, the G-Force tries…

Godzilla X Mechagodzilla

7.4

As a typhoon is raging across Japan, a loud roar alerts the populace that they are once again being visited by a rampaging monster. The military manages to drive the beast back into the ocean, but another attack looks…

Godzilla: Final Wars

7.4

Godzilla's 50th Anniversary project and costliest adventure to date out of 28 films. Earth has been relatively peaceful since Godzilla was successfully buried deep in ice beneath the South Pole. Then - sometimes a…

Godzilla, Mothra, & King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack

7.4

Godzilla is back, this time under the helm of Gamera Director Shusuke Kaneko. In Kaneko’s vision of the gray leviathan Godzilla returns to Japan to seek vengeance on a modern Japan that has forgotten the horrors…

Godzilla vs. Biollante

7.3

In the aftermath of Godzilla's attack on Tokyo and his later imprisonment at Mt. Mihara, a team of scientists discovers cells left in the rubble by the monster and collects them. The lone assassin codenamed SSS9 steals…

Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah

7.2

In 1992, science fiction writer Kenichiro Terasawa is writing a book about Godzilla and learns of a group of Japanese soldiers stationed on Lagos Island during the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign. In February…

Oda Motoyoshi

An English major who graduated from Waseda University, one of Japan's most prestigious, in 1935, Motoyoshi Oda was promptly accepted into the directors' program at Tokyo's P.C.L. (Photo Chemical Laboratories, a film company later incorporated into Toho Studios). He studied under director Kajiro Yamamoto,…

Kuroiwa Yoshitami

Kuroiwa Yoshitami was a Japanese film editor. Mainly working at Toho, he edited over 100 films, including Rickshaw Man, for which Hiroshi Inagaki won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. He worked on many Toho war films as well as on several editions of the Godzilla series. He also edited many…

Tanaka Tomoyuki

Tanaka Tomoyuki was a Japanese film producer who was most famous for creating the Godzilla franchise. He was born in Kashiwara, Osaka, Japan. Tanaka was married to the actress Nakakita Chieko (1926 – 2005). Soon after graduating from Kansai University in 1940, Tanaka joined Taisho Studios, which merged…

Banno Yoshimitsu

A Japanese film director, best known for the cult-classic Godzilla vs. Hedorah, which he directed and co-wrote. Banno was a special guest at G-Fest XII in 2005. He was an executive producer on Legendary Pictures's American Godzilla films, Godzilla (2014), Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), and Godzilla…

Takarada Akira

Akira Takarada was a Japanese film actor who is most known in the west for his roles in the Godzilla film series. Takarada was born in Japan-occupied Korea, and lived for a time in Harbin, China. His father worked as an engineer on the South Manchuria Railway. After the war, he remained in Harbin, and…

Kitagawa Tsutomu

Kitagawa Tsutomu is a suit actor. He has donned the Godzilla suit since 1999. He is the third actor to do so. His first Godzilla movie was Godzilla 2000, the first Toho production after the United States version. He is married to suit actress Eiko Onodera.

Matsuoka Masahiro

Matsuoka Masahiro is a Japanese drummer and actor. He is a member of Tokio, a Johnny Entertainment musical group. His nicknames are Mabo and Maa-kun. He starred as Shinichi Ozaki in "Godzilla: Final Wars" and the comedy series "Yasuko to Kenji". Matsuoka joined the pop/rock band Tokio as a drummer in…

Honda Ishiro

Honda Ishiro was a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. He is best known for his kaiju and tokusatsu films, including several entries in the Godzilla series, but also worked extensively in the documentary and war genres earlier in his career. His early film career included working…

Takuma Shin

Shin Takuma was born in 1956 in Okayama, Japan. He is an actor, known for Hôigaku kyôshitsu no jiken file (1992), Godzilla 1985: The Legend Is Reborn (1984) and Godzilla Against MechaGodzilla (2002). He was previously married to Chikako Kaku.

Kaneko Shusuke

Shusuke Kaneko was born in Tokyo, 8 June 1955. Drawn to film as a young boy, he filled his early years with science fiction and kaiju movies, giant monsters such as Godzilla and Gamera. Much of TV in Japan in the early and mid-60s was made up of imported shows from America, and Kaneko's imagination…