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Mothra
Shipwreck survivors are found on a presumably uninhabited and irradiated island called Infant Island. A joint expedition of Roliscan and Japanese scientists explore the island and discover the Shobijin, the twin priestesses of the island's deity, Mothra. When a greedy businessman kidnaps the fairies for profit, the divine Mothra sets out to rescue them.
Ishirō Honda
Casts & Crew
Frankie Sakai
Hiroshi Koizumi
Kyōko Kagawa
Jerry Itô
Ken Uehara
Emi Ito
Yumi Ito
Takashi Shimura
Akihiro Tayama
Akihiko Hirata
Tetsu Nakamura
Obel Wyatt
Seizaburō Kawazu
Yoshifumi Tajima
Robert Dunham
Kenji Sahara
Yoshio Kosugi
Ren Yamamoto
Haruya Katô
Shôichi Hirose
Hiroshi Takagi
Yasuhisa Tsutsumi
Teruko Mita
Kôji Iwamoto
Mitsuo Tsuda
Masamitsu Tayama
Toshio Miura
Tadashi Okabe
Akira Wakamatsu
Yutaka Nakayama
Osman Yusuf
Akira Yamada
Kôji Uno
Wataru Ômae
Toshihiko Furuta
Keisuke Matsuyama
Takeo Nagashima
Mitsuo Matsumoto
Hideo Shibuya
Kazuo Hinata
Shigeo Katô
Rinsaku Ogata
Yutaka Oka
Kô Hayami
Hiroyuki Satake
Kazuo Imai
Hiroshi Akitsu
Akio Kusama
Gorô Sakurai
Haruo Nakajima
Katsumi Tezuka
Also Directed by Ishirō Honda
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An Ishiro Honda film.
An Ishiro Honda film.
An Ishiro Honda film.
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