A black-and-white film version of “Godzilla-1.0” directed by Takashi Yamazaki. The highlight of the film is a worldview reminiscent of the first “Godzilla” film from 1954, which is the origin of the “scary Godzilla” that director Yamazaki aimed for. As the people of Japan struggle to survive the scorched earth of the Pacific War, a mysterious giant monster suddenly appears and mercilessly destroys a city in the process of reconstruction. Is there any way for the nameless people left behind to survive and fight back?
Devastated after the Second World War, Japan faces a new threat: Godzilla. How can the country confront such an impossible situation? This roaringly entertaining prequel is even scarier in black-and-white.
When three soldiers from am Army Reserve unit are called to fight in the Middle East, they must prepare themselves for the possibility of never returning home.
The young Jin Kambayashi, still a cadet for the Suna clan, tries to shoot the second head of the rival Kurokawa clan, but accidentally shoots Yoshiro Yazaki, a young man who has nothing to do with the yakuza, in the leg. Yoshiro, an activist with dashed dreams of revolution, resonates with Jin's simple, straightforward way of life and volunteers to become a yakuza. Meanwhile, Onimaru, a young leader of the Kurokawa clan, has murdered the second head of the clan and is about to pin the crime on the Sunagumi.
Record of the operations of the U.S. 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions in the 1944 D-Day invasion of France. Shows paratroops, gliders and troop carriers landing in France behind the German lines a day prior to the main invasion, helping to prepare the way for the invasion of Normandy.
French nuclear tests irradiate an iguana into a giant monster that viciously attacks freighter ships in the Pacific Ocean. A team of experts, including Niko Tatopoulos, conclude that the oversized reptile is the culprit. Before long, the giant lizard is loose in Manhattan as the US military races to destroy the monster before it reproduces and it's spawn takes over the world.
Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced to go to Japan to help his estranged father, Joe. Soon, both men are swept up in an escalating crisis when an ancient alpha predator arises from the sea to combat malevolent adversaries that threaten the survival of humanity. The creatures leave colossal destruction in their wake, as they make their way toward their final battleground: San Francisco.
Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Yemani soon discover something far more devastating than imagined in the form of a 50 meter tall monster whom the natives call Gojira. Now the monster begins a rampage that threatens to destroy not only Japan, but the rest of the world as well.
Follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the three-headed King Ghidorah. When these ancient super-species, thought to be mere myths, rise again, they all vie for supremacy, leaving humanity's very existence hanging in the balance.
Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re-titled "Godzilla 1985". Adding in new footage of Raymond Burr, this 16th Godzilla film ignores all previous sequels and serves as a direct follow-up to the 1956 "Godzilla King of the Monsters", which also featured scenes with Burr edited into 1954's "Godzilla". This film restores the darker tone of the original, as we witness the nuclear destruction of giant lizard terrorizing Japan.