Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964) [NR]

Release Date:
April 29, 1964

Original Title:
モスラ対ゴジラ

Alternate Titles:
Godzilla 4 - Mothra vs. Godzilla
Godzilla Against Mothra
Godzilla Contra a Ilha Sagrada
Godzilla contra Mothra
Godzilla contra los monstruos
Godzilla contre "La Chose"
Godzilla tegen "Het Ding"
Godzilla und die Urweltraupen
Godzilla vs. Mothra
Godzilla vs. The Thing
Mosura tai Gojira
Mothra Vs. Godzilla
Mothra contre Godzilla
Mothra möter Godzilla
Paniek in Tokyo Godzilla en het monster van Mothra
Watang! In the Fabulous Empire of Monsters
Watang! Nel favoloso impero dei mostri
Επιχείρηση Φούτζι Γιάμα
Επιχείρησις Φούτζι Γιάμα
魔斯拉鬥恐龍

Genres:
Action | Drama | Science Fiction

Production Companies:
TOHO

Production Countries:
Japan

Ratings / Certifications:
AU: M  CA: 14A  DE: 16  US: NR 

Runtime: 89

A massive Mach 3 moth! The heavy missile tank Godzilla! The sky, sea, and land quake in the fierce battle of the century!

Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and claimed by greedy entrepreneurs. Mothra's fairies arrive and are aided by the journalists in a plea for its return. As their requests are denied, Godzilla arises near Nagoya and the people of Infant Island must decide if they are willing to answer Japan's own pleas for help.

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Art Direction:
Takeo Kita

Background Designer:
Fuchimu Shimakura

Costume Design:
Keizô Murase
Yasuei Yagi
Teizô Toshimitsu
Kanju Yagi
Nobuyuki Yasumaru
Eizo Kaimai

Director:
Ishirō Honda

Director of Photography:
Hajime Koizumi

Editor:
Ryôhei Fujii

Executive Producer:
Sanezumi Fujimoto
Tomoyuki Tanaka

First Assistant Director:
Koji Kajita

Lighting Technician:
Seishichi Kojima
Kuichirô Kishida

Lyricist:
Tomoyuki Tanaka
Ishirō Honda
Shinichi Sekizawa

Matte Painter:
Fuchimu Shimakura

Modeling:
Eizo Kaimai
Yasuei Yagi
Teizô Toshimitsu
Kanju Yagi
Nobuyuki Yasumaru

Music:
Yūji Koseki
Hiroshi Miyagawa

Original Music Composer:
Akira Ifukube

Production Design:
Takeo Kita

Production Manager:
Boku Morimoto

Screenplay:
Shinichi Sekizawa

Sculptor:
Keizô Murase
Teizô Toshimitsu

Set Dresser:
Sadao Kudo
Toshiro Aoki
Takeharu Ikebuchi

Sound Effects:
Sadamasa Nishimoto

Sound Recordist:
Fumio Yanoguchi
Hisashi Shimonaga

Special Effects:
Eiji Tsuburaya
Yôichi Manoda
Sadamasa Arikawa
Kyuzo Yamamoto
Kenya Mukai
Takeharu Ikebuchi
Toshiro Aoki
Sadao Kudo
Motoyoshi Tomioka
Tokimaro Karasawa
Mitsuru Toriumi
Takao Tsurumi
Koichi Kawakita
Takeshi Miyanishi
Teruyoshi Nakano
Takeshi Yamamoto

Special Effects Assistant:
Teruyoshi Nakano
Jiro Shirasaki
Kenya Mukai
Takeshi Yamamoto
Takeshi Miyanishi
Yasuyuki Inoue
Koichi Kawakita
Takao Tsurumi
Yôichi Manoda
Yoshio Irie
Tokimaro Karasawa
Mitsuru Toriumi

Still Photographer:
Takashi Nakao

Stunts:
Haruo Nakajima

VFX Director of Photography:
Sadamasa Arikawa
Motoyoshi Tomioka

VFX Lighting Artist:
Kuichirô Kishida

Visual Effects:
Sadao Iizuka
Teruyoshi Nakano
Hiroshi Mukoyama
Yoshiyuki Tokumasa
Yukio Manoda
Minoru Nakano
Eiji Tsuburaya

Visual Effects Art Director:
Jiro Shirasaki
Akira Watanabe
Yasuyuki Inoue
Yoshio Irie

Visual Effects Camera:
Takao Tsurumi
Yoshiyuki Tokumasa
Tokimaro Karasawa
Kenya Mukai
Mitsuru Toriumi
Takeshi Yamamoto
Takeshi Miyanishi
Yukio Manoda
Koichi Kawakita
Yôichi Manoda
Sadao Iizuka
Takashi Nakao

Visual Effects Compositor:
Hiroshi Mukoyama

Visual Effects Director:
Teruyoshi Nakano
Eiji Tsuburaya

Visual Effects Production Manager:
Tadashi Koike

Vocals:
Yumi Ito
Emi Ito

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