The Return of Godzilla

About The Return of Godzilla

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.

Koji Hashimoto's The Return of Godzilla is a 1984 horror science fiction film. The film is filed under cold war, reporter, brother, and giant monster.

Keiju Kobayashi stars as Prime Minister Seiki Mitamura, Ken Tanaka as Goro Maki, Yasuko Sawaguchi as Naoko Okumura, and Shin Takuma as Hiroshi Okumura. It runs 103 minutes and was released in December 1984.

The screenplay is by Hideichi Nagahara. In the United States it streams on Cinemax Amazon Channel, Cinemax Apple TV channel, and Criterion Channel.

Godzilla Minus One, Shin Godzilla, and Godzilla make useful companions to The Return of Godzilla, all filed under godzilla and kaiju. TMDB voters put it at 7.2 out of 10 across 353 votes.