Godzilla 1985 (1985) [PG]

Release Date:
August 23, 1985

Original Title:
Godzilla 1985

Alternate Titles:
El Retorno de Godzilla 1986
Godzilla '85
Godzilla 'nin Dönüşü
Godzilla 1985: The Legend is Reborn
Godzilla Is Alive
Godzilla-85
Godzilla: 1985
Gojira 1985
Il ritorno di Godzilla
Le retour de Godzilla
O Regresso de Gozilla
Povratak Godzile
The Return of Godzilla
The Return of Godzilla 1986
Γκοτζίλα 1985
Годзилла
Годзилла 1985
Ґодзілла 1985
ゴジラ1985

Genres:
Action | Science Fiction | Thriller

Production Companies:
New World Pictures
Toho Eizo Co.
Toho Pictures
Tokyo Laboratory

Production Countries:
Japan | United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
AU: PG  GB: PG  US: PG 

Runtime: 87

Prepare yourself: the greatest star of all has returned.

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.

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ADR Mixer:
Richard D. Rogers

Adaptation:
Tony Randel

Art Direction:
Akira Sakuragi
Carol Christine Clements

Assistant Art Director:
Gregg Lacy

Assistant Camera:
Samuel Buddy Fries

Assistant Director:
Lee Berger
Kensho Yamashita

Assistant Editor:
Kevin Sewelson
Mehran Salamati

Assistant Sound Engineer:
Noboru Ikeda

Associate Producer:
Fumio Tanaka
Andrea Barshov Stern

Best Boy Grip:
Lewis A. Weinberg
Paul S. Isiki

Boom Operator:
Glenn E. Berkovitz

Casting:
Tadao Tanaka
Danny Goldman

Conductor:
Katsuaki Nakaya

Construction Coordinator:
Yoshiki Kasahara

Continuity:
Hiroko Kajiyama

Costume Design:
Kenji Kawasaki
Nobuyuki Yasumaru

Director:
Koji Hashimoto
R.J. Kizer

Director of Photography:
Kazutami Hara
Steven Dubin

Dolby Consultant:
Mikio Mori

Driver:
Christopher Ward Trott

Editor:
Yoshitami Kuroiwa
Michael Spence

Executive Producer:
Tomoyuki Tanaka

First Assistant Director:
Takao Okawara
Kunio Miyoshi

Gaffer:
Amy C. Halpern

Grip:
Shunji Yokota

Hairstylist:
Carol Christine Clements

Key Grip:
Tracy Neftzger

Lighting Technician:
Shinji Kojima
Akira Oba

Main Title Designer:
Ernest D. Farino

Makeup & Hair:
Mary Michael George

Makeup Artist:
Fumiko Umezawa

Military Consultant:
Hideo Aoki

Music:
Christopher Young

Negative Cutter:
Diana Jackson
Fusako Takahashi

Original Music Composer:
Reijirō Koroku

Post Production Coordinator:
James Melkonian

Producer:
Norio Hayashi
Kiyomi Kanazawa
Tony Randel

Production Assistant:
Lisa M. Dannenbaum
Christopher Ward Trott

Production Design:
Akira Sakuragi
Yasuyuki Inoue
Mutsumi Toyoshima

Production Manager:
Takahide Morichi

Production Secretary:
Ann Marie Trulove

Prosthetics:
Nobuyuki Yasumaru

Pyrotechnician:
Tadaaki Watanabe
Mamoru Kume

Screenplay:
Hideichi Nagahara
Lisa Tomei

Script Supervisor:
Veronica Flynn

Second Assistant Director:
Hitoshi Hoshino

Set Decoration:
Akio Tashiro
Pam Moffat

Sound:
Bob Biggart

Sound Director:
Lee Chaloukian

Sound Mixer:
Mark Sheret

Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
John Wilkinson
Charles Grenzbach
Joseph D. Citarella

Sound Recordist:
Nobuyuki Tanaka

Special Effects:
Teruyoshi Nakano
Shinji Higuchi
Mitsuo Miyakawa
Koji Matsumoto
Kohhei Mikami
Kiyotaka Matsumoto
Eiichi Asada

Still Photographer:
Takashi Nakao
Yoshinori Ishizuki

Story:
Tomoyuki Tanaka

Supervising Sound Editor:
Bob Biggart

Swing:
Richard Kuhn

Thanks:
Robert Hamlin
David Millheiser
Cynthia T. Lewis
Sôichirô Tahara

VFX Director of Photography:
Toshimitsu Oneda
Takeshi Yamamoto

VFX Lighting Artist:
Kohhei Mikami

Visual Effects:
Teruyoshi Nakano
Yoshikazu Manoda
Takeaki Tsukada
Yoshio Ishii
Takeshi Miyanishi
Ernest D. Farino
Bret Mixon
Yutaka Tsuchiya

Visual Effects Camera:
Yoshikazu Manoda
Takeaki Tsukada
Yoshio Ishii
Takeshi Miyanishi

Visual Effects Director:
Teruyoshi Nakano

Visual Effects Production Manager:
Masayuki Ikeda

Wardrobe Assistant:
Kathryn Sparks

Writer:
Straw Weisman

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