Godzilla Raids Again German Full Movie

Godzilla Raids Once again (ゴジラの逆襲, Gojira no Gyakushū ^?, lit. Godzilla'south Counterattack) is a 1955 tokusatsu kaiju film produced by Toho Company Ltd., serving equally the 2nd installment in the Godzilla franchise, equally well as the Showa serial. The flick was released to Japanese theaters on April 24, 1955. It was and then released to American theaters as Gigantis, the Burn Monster on May 21, 1959.

Godzilla Raids Again was directed by Motoyoshi Oda, produced past Tomoyuki Tanaka, and written by Shigeaki Hidaka, Shigeru Kayama, Takeo Murata. Takeo had previously assisted in writing the screenplay for the original 1954 film. This films follows 1954's Godzilla, and details non only the return of Godzilla, but besides the appearance of a fearsome new adversary known as Anguirus.

The film featured a relatively rushed production, and the overall negative reception to the film lead to a hiatus in the series. This was concluded with the inflow of a sequel in 1962: Rex Kong vs. Godzilla, in which Godzilla engages in combat with fellow cinema icon Rex Kong.

Contents

• 1 Plot
• two Staff
• three Cast
• four Appearances
  • 4.one Monsters
  • iv.2 Weapons
  • 4.3 Vehicles
• five Alternate titles
• half-dozen Theatrical releases
• 7 Foreign releases
  • 7.i U.S. release
• 8 Box office
• 9 Reception
• 10 Home media releases
• 11 Trivia
• 12 References

Plot

Two pilots named Tsukioka and Kobayashi are hunting for schools of fish for a tuna cannery company in Osaka. Kobayashi's airplane malfunctions and is forced to state near Iwato Isle, an uninhabited strip of rocks formed by volcanic eruptions. Tsukioka then looks for Kobayashi and finds him safety, with merely a wrist sprain. While talking, the two men hear some strange sounds and notice two monsters fighting. Tsukioka immediately recognizes one of the monsters to be Godzilla. The ii monsters then autumn off a cliff, into the ocean.

Tsukioka and Kobayashi report to the government in Osaka, and find out that the other creature, Godzilla was fighting Anguirus. A grouping of scientists with the two pilots researched Anguirus in a volume written past a Shine scientist. Anguirus and Godzilla lived effectually the aforementioned time millions of years ago. Anguirus hated hostile creatures, which explains the intense rivalry between Anguirus and Godzilla.

Dr. Yamane, who experienced Godzilla'southward first attack, was also present at the meeting, and shows a film of Godzilla attacking Tokyo just one yr before. He then explains that the monster Tsukioka and Kobayashi saw is some other Godzilla. Yamane states that there is no way to kill Godzilla, and that Daisuke Serizawa, the inventor of the weapon used to impale the previous Godzilla, the Oxygen Destroyer, had died and burned the formula. Yamane, though, suggests that the military should apply flares on Godzilla to attract the monster abroad from the shore. Godzilla becomes angry when he sees lights because the hydrogen bomb's bright explosion had awakened him.

One 24-hour interval unexpectedly, Godzilla shows upwardly on the shore of Osaka. Jets are sent to shoot flares from their planes to pb Godzilla abroad from the shore. Godzilla sees the flames, and, equally Yamane predicted, starts to walk away.

Meanwhile, a prison truck transports dangerous criminals to another part of the country. All of the criminals, using torso language, decided that this would be a great opportunity to escape from prison. The prisoners beat up the two policemen guarding the back door of the truck, and run abroad. A few of them observe a gasoline truck, and put the petal to the metal. The truck crashes into an industrial building and starts a massive fire.

The fire attracts Godzilla to the shore of Osaka again. A few minutes afterward, Anguirus swims to shore and attacks Godzilla. The ii creatures fight an intense battle, while destroying several buildings, including the tuna cannery that Tsukioka and Kobayashi work for. Godzilla finally bites Anguirus' neck, and throws him on a moat near Osaka Castle. Godzilla then fires his atomic ray, and burns Anguirus to death.

Tsukioka and Kobayashi are transferred to a Hokkaido constitute. During a company party, Tsukioka and Kobayashi are notified that Godzilla destroyed ane of the company fishing boats. The armed forces, and Tsukioka brainstorm a massive search for Godzilla. Tsukioka spots Godzilla swimming to the shore of a pocket-size, icy island. He notifies the cannery, and Kobayashi takes off in his plane to switch shifts with Tsukioka.

Kobayashi dives his plane towards Godzilla to distract him from walking back into the bounding main. Tsukioka and then transferred to the air force, travels on a jet with an sometime college friend. They drop bombs on Godzilla but are unsuccessful. Godzilla then wades towards shore. Koboyashi dives towards Godzilla once again merely Godzilla fires his diminutive ray on Kobayashi's plane. The aeroplane then crashes on an icy mountain, killing Kobayashi.

Tsukioka grieves but then notices that the military can shoot missiles at the mountain, and bury Godzilla in an avalanche. The jets fire the missiles, and bury Godzilla in snow to his waist.

The jets render to base to reload, and Tsukioka is authorized to fly in his own jet. The jets return to the icy isle, and shoot missiles at the mount, burying Godzilla to his neck. Tsukioka and so shoots his missiles burying Godzilla completely. Tsukioka looks to the heaven, and says, "Kobayashi, we buried Godzilla for y'all."

Staff

Staff office on the left, staff fellow member'due south name on the right.

• Directed by Motoyoshi Oda
• Written past Shigeaki Hidaka, Shigeru Kayama, Takeo Murata
• Produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka
• Music past Masaru Sato
• Cinematography by Seiichi Endo
• Edited by Kazuji Taira
• Production blueprint by Teruaki Abe, Takeo Kita, Akira Watanabe
• Special furnishings by Eiji Tsuburaya

Cast

Actor'due south name on the left, grapheme played on the right.

• Hiroshi Koizumi as Shoichi Tsukioka
• Minoru Chiaki every bit Kojikawa Kobayashi
• Setsuko Wakayama as Hidemi Yamaji
• Takashi Shimura every bit Doctor Kyohei Yamane
• Masao Shimizu as Zoologist Tadokoro
• Sonosuke Sawamura as Hokkaido Branch Managing director Shingo Shibeki
• Seijiro Onda as Commander of Osaka'due south SDF Terasawa
• Yoshio Tsuchiya every bit Member of Osaka'south SDF Tajima
• Minosuke Yamada as Primary of Ceremonious Defense
• Yukio Kasama as President of Fishery Koehi Wamaji
• Mayuri Mokusho as Radio Operator Yasuko Inouye
• Ren Yamamoto as Commander of Landing Craft
• Takeo Oikawa every bit Osaka Master of Police
• Shin Otomo as Captive Leader
• Senkichi Omura every bit Convict
• Shoichi Hirose as Convict
• Junpei Natsuki equally Convict

Appearances

Monsters

• Godzilla
• Anguirus

Weapons

• Oxygen Destroyer (Mentioned simply)

Vehicles

• 24 Twin Rocket Automobile
• Cessna 170
• F86F Sabre
• Landing Craft
• Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star
• M24 Chaffee Tank
• Saunders-Roe A.36 Lerwick (Saro Lerwick)

Alternate titles

• Gigantis, the Fire Monster (U.s.; Gigantis, el Monstruo de Fuego; Mexico)
• Godzilla'due south Counterattack (Literal Japanese)
• The Rex of the Monsters (El Rey de los Monstruos; Kingdom of spain)
• The Render of Godzilla (Le Retour de Godzilla; French republic; De Terugkeer van Godzilla; Belgium)
• Godzilla Returns (Godzilla kehrt zurück; Germany)
• The Rex of the Monsters (Il Re de Mostri; Italian republic)
• Godzilla Attacks Again (Godzilla Ataca Novamente; Brazil)

Theatrical releases

• Japan - April 24, 1955
• United States - May 21, 1959
• Portugal - November 1955
• Italia - 1955
• Spain - 1958
• France - Oct one, 1957
• Germany - August 29, 1958
• Turkey - May 1959
• Republic of korea - May 17, 1960
• Mexico - June 30, 1960

Strange releases

U.Southward. release

American Gigantis, the Fire Monster poster

Following the successful U.Southward. release of Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, Toho sold the American distribution rights of Godzilla Raids Again to Harry Rybnick and Edward Barison. Their idea was to create a new film for AB-PT Pictures Corporation using the special furnishings sequences from Godzilla Raids Again. Ib Melchior and Edwin Watson drafted a screenplay, titled The Volcano Monsters, in which Godzilla and Anguirus, now respectively referred to every bit a Tyrannosaurus king and an Ankylosaurus, are discovered in a volcanic cave. Toho shipped Godzilla and Anguirus suits to Hollywood to allow the producers to moving-picture show new footage of the monsters. Ultimately, AB-PT Pictures Corp. closed down in 1957 before production started on The Volcano Monsters. The monster suits were eventually lost.

In 1958, the pic's U.S. distribution rights were acquired past producer Paul Schreibman, who hired Hugo Grimaldi to re-write and re-edit the film, re-titling information technology Gigantis, the Fire Monster. Aside from changing Godzilla's name to "Gigantis," Grimaldi's version changes the origins of the monsters: "Gigantis" and Anguirus are described as two related species of prehistoric burn monsters. The sound furnishings of the monsters were altered to reflect this, with several shots of Godzilla augmented with Anguirus' roar. Additionally, nearly all of Masaru Sato'south original score was replaced with library music, well-nigh of which was composed by Paul Sawtell and Bert Shefter for other scientific discipline fiction films. Stock footage from other science fiction films featuring dinosaurs was also added into the film. For years, it was believed that the reason for these changes was that Warner Bros. did not have the rights to Godzilla'due south name. However, Paul Schreibman said that he inverse Godzilla's name to "Gigantis" to give the audience the impression that they were seeing a new monster, believing an original picture would sell better than a sequel. He has since claimed he came to regret that decision.

The English language dubbing, also supervised and directed by Grimaldi, was recorded at Ryder Sound Service, Inc. in Hollywood. The vocalisation bandage featured veteran performers Keye Luke, Marvin Miller, and Paul Frees, too as a very immature George Takei, of Star Expedition fame. Luke was bandage as Tsukioka, whose character now narrated the events of the film. In addition to voicing Kobayashi, Miller narrated a pre-credit stock footage montage detailing homo's scientific progress.

Afterwards completing the Americanization of the pic, Paul Schreibman sold the theatrical rights to Warner Bros., which released the film on May 21, 1959. Gigantis, the Fire Monster was presented on a double bill with Teenagers from Outer Infinite, which Warner also purchased from Schreibman.

On November 7, 2006, Archetype Media released the Japanese and American versions of Godzilla Raids Over again on DVD. Prior to this release, the film had been unavailable on Due north American dwelling video since Video Treasures' VHS release in 1989. A notable difference betwixt the original Gigantis and the U.S. version released by Classic Media is the fact the Gigantis title card has been replaced with a newer Godzilla Raids Over again championship card, by asking of Toho.

Box office

The film sold approximately 8,340,000 tickets in Japan, making information technology the tertiary nigh-attended Godzilla picture show in Japan at the time. It grossed effectually 1,700,000 yen, or $1,670,080.

Reception

The film was generally poorly received past fans and critics, who criticized it every bit a rushed sequel. Information technology is, even so, notable for being the beginning Godzilla motion picture to introduce the formula of Godzilla contesting other monsters, which would become a staple of the franchise.

The poor response to the film briefly put the series on hiatus until 1962'due south King Kong vs. Godzilla.

The American version of Godzilla Raids Again received negative reviews by mod critics and fans, due to Godzilla existence renamed to Gigantis, and also Godzilla'south roar beingness altered past using the Anguirus roar, irresolute a lot of parts of the plot, using a bunch of stock footage, and replacing the music with stock music such equally some music taken from the movie Kronos.

Habitation media releases

Distributor	Released	Region	Linguistic communication	Format	Misc.
Toho	2001	Region 2	Japanese	N/A	Northward/A
Classic Media[2]	July 1, 2012	Region 1	English language Japanese	Multiple formats Airtight-captioned Black and white NTSC	1.33:1 aspect ratio 160 minutes run time ane disc Japanese version

Trivia

• Godzilla Raids Once again was the first Godzilla film to feature two monsters.
• The Godzilla suit used for this film, the GyakushuGoji, was slimmer and lighter than the previous ShodaiGoji suit used in 1954, putting less pressure on the role player, and making every fight scene with Anguirus easier.
• The J.Due south.D.F.'s tactic of enforcing a blackout in Osaka to protect it from Godzilla is the same tactic used by Japan during World War II to protect cities from Centrolineal bombing raids.
• In the American version of Godzilla Raids Over again, Godzilla'due south roar was contradistinct to audio like Anguirus' roar, due to this version establishing that "Gigantis" and Anguirus are related. His normal roar is withal heard in many instances, though, and the roars are interchanged erratically.
• Godzilla Raids Again is the only Godzilla movie to engagement where Godzilla'due south scutes do not glow prior to him releasing his atomic jiff.
• This is the commencement film in which Godzilla is defeated by the J.S.D.F. Nonetheless, Godzilla Raids Once again is the only Showa era film wherein the J.S.D.F. wins out over Godzilla with a coordinated tactical strike, and with no aid from another monster or some sophisticated form of technology.
• There are no scenes which feature Godzilla using his rut ray from the full suit-view. Every time he does, the mitt-operated puppet caput is used. This is due to the fact that the suit'due south rima oris could not open wide plenty to show Godzilla firing his atomic breath. This was likewise the example in the original Godzilla.
• Gigantis, the Fire Monster was distributed in the United States by Warner Bros., who would distribute Legendary Pictures' Godzilla and its sequels over 55 years later.
• Subsequently this film'south release, Toho took a seven-twelvemonth intermission from making Godzilla films. Still, during these vii years they continued to make kaiju films, and introduced some of the most recognizable monsters other than Godzilla from the Showa era, including Rodan and Mothra.
• In the Kaiju Guide for the 2014 Godzilla game, Anguirus' bio states that he once battled a monster chosen "Gigantis," who has since been banished from this airplane of existence, an inside joke relating to the American version of Godzilla Raids Once again.
• Godzilla Raids Again is the 2nd and concluding Godzilla movie to be filmed in black and white.
• Godzilla Raids Again, forth with the original Godzilla, are the only Godzilla films released in the 1950s.

References

1. ↑ ゴジラの逆襲 Wikipedia. Retrieved June 18, 2017
2. ↑ (July one, 2012). Godzilla Raids Again Amazon. Retrieved June 18, 2017

Rating:

None, Information technology Was Before Ratings Became a Affair.

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