The Return of Godzilla
After a fishing boat is attacked by a giant monster, the sole surviving crew member realizes the monster is a new Godzilla. A reporter's efforts to bring the story to light are thwarterd.
Hideichi Nagahara
Koji Hashimoto
Casts & Crew
Ken Tanaka
Yasuko Sawaguchi
Yōsuke Natsuki
Keiju Kobayashi
Shin Takuma
Eitarō Ozawa
Hiroshi Koizumi
Taketoshi Naitô
Kenpachirō Satsuma
Mizuho Suzuki
Junkichi Orimoto
Kei Satō
Tetsuya Takeda
Nobuo Kaneko
Takenori Emoto
Kunio Murai
Shigeo Katô
Kôji Ishizaka
Also Directed by Koji Hashimoto
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.
In the 22nd century, scientists from an energy-depleted Earth research new fuel sources in the far corners of the solar system, where they discover an ancient alien race from Jupiter as well as the emergence of an apocalyptically dangerous black hole. Koji Hashimoto's 1983 sci-fi adventure was conceived as a Japanese competitor to the upcoming sequel to Stanley Kubrick's classic 2001, titled 2010, and often mirrors the sequel's plot.