The Return of Godzilla( 1984)

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Breaking 30 years of silence comes the anticipated-worldwide latest "Godzilla" work!

Overview

After a fishing boat is attacked, the sole surviving crew member realizes it is none other than a resurrected Godzilla. However, efforts to bring the story to light are suppressed by the Japanese government amid growing political tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union, who are both willing to bomb Japan to stop the monster.

Top Billed Cast

Keiju Kobayashi
Prime Minister Seiki Mitamura
Ken Tanaka
Goro Maki
Yasuko Sawaguchi
Naoko Okumura
Shin Takuma
Hiroshi Okumura
Yōsuke Natsuki
Professor Makoto Hayashida
Eitarō Ozawa
Minister of Finance Kanzaki
Taketoshi Naitō
Chief Cabinet Secretary Takegami
Nobuo Kaneko
Home Affairs Minister Isomura
Mizuho Suzuki
Foreign Minister Emori
Junkichi Orimoto
Director-General of the Defense Agency
Hiroshi Koizumi
Professor Minami
Kunio Murai
Secretary Henmi
Kei Satō
Chief Editor Gondo
Shigeo Katō
Captain of the Yahata Maru
Walter Nichols
Rosenburg, Special Envoy for the President of the United States
Alexander Kilis
Chefsky, Special Envoy for the Soviet Union
Takenori Emoto
Desk Editor Kitagawa
Koji Ishizaka
Power plant guard
Tetsuya Takeda
Homeless man
Joe Raznack
Kramer, American Ambassador (uncredited)
Joseph Grace
Zazimov, Soviet Ambassador (uncredited)
Kenpachirō Satsuma
Godzilla
Akira Toriyama
Man fleeing from Godzilla (uncredited)
Yuji Horii
Man fleeing from Godzilla (uncredited)
Akira Sakuma
Man fleeing from Godzilla (uncredited)

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A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on Fri Jun 07 2019

It's good to have the moody atomic beast back! After an extended break, Godzilla as a movie force made its comeback with this the 16th Godzilla film and the first of what would be the Heisei series. It's a reboot that basically follows on from the original Gojira film of 1954. Plot has Godzilla back as a destroyer of mankind, setting its eyes on stomping Tokyo into oblivion. As Zilla goes about its destructive way, and Tokyo attempts to repel the onslaught, there's a backdrop of a diplomatic crisis reaching boiling point as the Soviets and the Americans get ready for nuclear war. Thankfully ...