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Son of Godzilla
Son of Godzilla (Japanese: 怪獣島の決戦 ゴジラの息子, Hepburn: Kaijū-tō no Kessen: Gojira no Musuko; lit. Monster Island's Decisive Battle: Godzilla's Son) is a 1967 Japanese kaiju film directed by Jun Fukuda, with special effects by Sadamasa Arikawa, under the supervision of Eiji Tsuburaya. Produced and distributed by Toho Co., Ltd, it is the eighth film in the Godzilla franchise. It stars Tadao Takashima, Akira Kubo, Akihiko Hirata, and Beverly Maeda, with Hiroshi Sekita, Seiji Onaka, and Haruo Nakajima as Godzilla, and Marchan the Dwarf as Minilla.
Son of Godzilla received a theatrical release in Japan on December 16, 1967, it received mixed reactions from critics and audience. It was released directly to television in the United States in 1969 through the Walter Reade Organization.
The film was followed by Destroy All Monsters, released on August 1, 1968.
A team of scientists try to perfect a weather-controlling system, but their efforts are hampered by the arrival of a nosy reporter and the presence of giant mantises. A reporter, Maki Goro, arrives on the island to find the scientists somewhat disturbed from the events, and is allowed to stay as a maintenance worker. Whilst there, he also glimpses a mysterious woman, whom the scientists were unaware of, apparently living in the jungle. The first test of the weather control system goes awry when the remote control for a radioactive balloon is jammed by an unexplained signal coming from the center of the island. Eventually finding the woman, Saeko Matsumiya, she is revealed to be the daughter of a previous researcher on the island who warned about a gigantic species of spider. The balloon detonates prematurely, creating a radioactive storm that causes the giant mantises to grow to enormous sizes. Investigating the mantises, which are named Kamacuras (Gimantis in the English-dubbed version), the scientists find the monstrous insects digging an egg out from under a pile of earth.
The egg hatches, revealing a baby Godzilla named Minilla. The scientists realize that his telepathic cries for help were the cause of the interference that ruined their experiment. Shortly afterwards, Godzilla arrives on the island in response to the infant's cries, and demolishes the scientists' base while rushing to defend the baby. Godzilla kills two of the Kamacuras during the battle while one manages to fly away to safety. Saeko introduces herself to and bonds with the newborn monster, feeding him a mango. Godzilla then returns and adopts Minilla as his son.
Minilla quickly grows to about half the size of his father, and Godzilla begins instructing him on roaring and using his atomic ray, as Maki and Saeko observe them. At first, Minilla has difficulty producing anything besides atomic smoke rings, but Godzilla realizes that stressful conditions (such as stepping on his tail) or motivation produces a true radioactive blast. Minilla comes to the aid of Saeko when she is attacked by a Kamacuras, but he inadvertently awakens Kumonga (Spiga in the English-dubbed version), a giant spider that was sleeping in a valley which Saeko's father witnessed roaming on the island before. Kumonga attacks Saeko's cave where the scientists are hiding and Minilla stumbles into battle.
Kumonga traps Minilla and the final Kamacuras with its webbing, but as Kumonga begins to feed on the deceased Kamacuras, Godzilla arrives. Godzilla saves Minilla and they work together to defeat Kumonga by using their atomic rays to kill it. Hoping to keep the monsters from interfering in their attempt to escape the island, the scientists finally use their perfected weather altering device on the island and the once tropical island becomes buried in snow and ice. As the scientists are saved by an American submarine, Godzilla and Minilla embrace and begin to hibernate as they wait for the island to become tropical again.
For the second Godzilla film in a row, Toho produced an island themed adventure with a smaller budget than most of their monster films from this time period. While the a-list crew of talent was hired to work on that year's King Kong Escapes, (Ishirō Honda, Eiji Tsuburaya, and Akira Ifukube), the second string crew of cheaper talent was once again tapped to work on this project as they had done with Ebirah, Horror of the Deep. This included Jun Fukuda (director), Sadamasa Arikawa (special effects), and Masaru Sato (composer). This was the first film where Arikawa was officially listed as the director of Special Effects, although he did receive some supervision from Tsuburaya when he was available.
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Son of Godzilla
Son of Godzilla (Japanese: 怪獣島の決戦 ゴジラの息子, Hepburn: Kaijū-tō no Kessen: Gojira no Musuko; lit. Monster Island's Decisive Battle: Godzilla's Son) is a 1967 Japanese kaiju film directed by Jun Fukuda, with special effects by Sadamasa Arikawa, under the supervision of Eiji Tsuburaya. Produced and distributed by Toho Co., Ltd, it is the eighth film in the Godzilla franchise. It stars Tadao Takashima, Akira Kubo, Akihiko Hirata, and Beverly Maeda, with Hiroshi Sekita, Seiji Onaka, and Haruo Nakajima as Godzilla, and Marchan the Dwarf as Minilla.
Son of Godzilla received a theatrical release in Japan on December 16, 1967, it received mixed reactions from critics and audience. It was released directly to television in the United States in 1969 through the Walter Reade Organization.
The film was followed by Destroy All Monsters, released on August 1, 1968.
A team of scientists try to perfect a weather-controlling system, but their efforts are hampered by the arrival of a nosy reporter and the presence of giant mantises. A reporter, Maki Goro, arrives on the island to find the scientists somewhat disturbed from the events, and is allowed to stay as a maintenance worker. Whilst there, he also glimpses a mysterious woman, whom the scientists were unaware of, apparently living in the jungle. The first test of the weather control system goes awry when the remote control for a radioactive balloon is jammed by an unexplained signal coming from the center of the island. Eventually finding the woman, Saeko Matsumiya, she is revealed to be the daughter of a previous researcher on the island who warned about a gigantic species of spider. The balloon detonates prematurely, creating a radioactive storm that causes the giant mantises to grow to enormous sizes. Investigating the mantises, which are named Kamacuras (Gimantis in the English-dubbed version), the scientists find the monstrous insects digging an egg out from under a pile of earth.
The egg hatches, revealing a baby Godzilla named Minilla. The scientists realize that his telepathic cries for help were the cause of the interference that ruined their experiment. Shortly afterwards, Godzilla arrives on the island in response to the infant's cries, and demolishes the scientists' base while rushing to defend the baby. Godzilla kills two of the Kamacuras during the battle while one manages to fly away to safety. Saeko introduces herself to and bonds with the newborn monster, feeding him a mango. Godzilla then returns and adopts Minilla as his son.
Minilla quickly grows to about half the size of his father, and Godzilla begins instructing him on roaring and using his atomic ray, as Maki and Saeko observe them. At first, Minilla has difficulty producing anything besides atomic smoke rings, but Godzilla realizes that stressful conditions (such as stepping on his tail) or motivation produces a true radioactive blast. Minilla comes to the aid of Saeko when she is attacked by a Kamacuras, but he inadvertently awakens Kumonga (Spiga in the English-dubbed version), a giant spider that was sleeping in a valley which Saeko's father witnessed roaming on the island before. Kumonga attacks Saeko's cave where the scientists are hiding and Minilla stumbles into battle.
Kumonga traps Minilla and the final Kamacuras with its webbing, but as Kumonga begins to feed on the deceased Kamacuras, Godzilla arrives. Godzilla saves Minilla and they work together to defeat Kumonga by using their atomic rays to kill it. Hoping to keep the monsters from interfering in their attempt to escape the island, the scientists finally use their perfected weather altering device on the island and the once tropical island becomes buried in snow and ice. As the scientists are saved by an American submarine, Godzilla and Minilla embrace and begin to hibernate as they wait for the island to become tropical again.
For the second Godzilla film in a row, Toho produced an island themed adventure with a smaller budget than most of their monster films from this time period. While the a-list crew of talent was hired to work on that year's King Kong Escapes, (Ishirō Honda, Eiji Tsuburaya, and Akira Ifukube), the second string crew of cheaper talent was once again tapped to work on this project as they had done with Ebirah, Horror of the Deep. This included Jun Fukuda (director), Sadamasa Arikawa (special effects), and Masaru Sato (composer). This was the first film where Arikawa was officially listed as the director of Special Effects, although he did receive some supervision from Tsuburaya when he was available.