A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
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
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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