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The Return of Godzilla (1984) [N/A]

Release Date:
December 15, 1984

Original Title:
ゴジラ

Alternate Titles:
Destruction of Japan
Godzilla
Godzilla 1984
Godzilla 1985
Godzilla Returns
Godzilla vender tilbake
Godzilla'nin Dönüşü
Gojira
Jī miè rìběn guó
Le Retour de Godzilla
O Retorno do Godzilla
Return of Godzilla
Возвращение Годзиллы
Повернення Ґодзілли
Ґодзілла
擊滅日本国

Genres:
Action | Horror | Science Fiction | Thriller

Production Companies:
Toho Pictures

Production Countries:
Japan

Ratings / Certifications:
DE: 12  GB: PG 

Runtime: 103

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

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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.

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Production

Assistant Costume Designer:
Tomoki Kobayashi

Assistant Director:
Kensho Yamashita

Assistant Sound Engineer:
Noboru Ikeda

Associate Producer:
Fumio Tanaka

Casting:
Tadao Tanaka

Construction Coordinator:
Yoshiki Kasahara

Continuity:
Hiroko Kajiyama

Costume Design:
Kenji Kawasaki
Nobuyuki Yasumaru
Tomoki Kobayashi

Director:
Koji Hashimoto

Director of Photography:
Kazutami Hara

Dolby Consultant:
Mikio Mori

Editor:
Yoshitami Kuroiwa

Electrician:
Hideo Inagaki

Executive Producer:
Tomoyuki Tanaka

First Assistant Director:
Takao Okawara
Kunio Miyoshi

Grip:
Shunji Yokota

Lighting Technician:
Shinji Kojima
Akira Oba

Makeup Artist:
Fumiko Umezawa

Military Consultant:
Hideo Aoki

Negative Cutter:
Fusako Takahashi

Original Music Composer:
Reijirō Koroku

Producer:
Norio Hayashi
Kiyomi Kanazawa

Production Design:
Akira Sakuragi
Yasuyuki Inoue
Mutsumi Toyoshima

Production Manager:
Takahide Morichi

Prosthetics:
Nobuyuki Yasumaru

Pyrotechnician:
Tadaaki Watanabe
Mamoru Kume

Screenplay:
Hideichi Nagahara

Second Assistant Director:
Hitoshi Hoshino

Set Decoration:
Akio Tashiro

Sound Recordist:
Nobuyuki Tanaka

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

Still Photographer:
Takashi Nakao
Yoshinori Ishizuki

Story:
Tomoyuki Tanaka

Thanks:
Sōichirō Tahara

VFX Director of Photography:
Toshimitsu Oneda
Takeshi Yamamoto

VFX Lighting Artist:
Kohhei Mikami

Visual Effects:
Teruyoshi Nakano
Takeaki Tsukada
Yoshio Ishii
Takeshi Miyanishi
Yoshikazu Manoda
Yutaka Tsuchiya

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

Visual Effects Director:
Teruyoshi Nakano

Visual Effects Production Manager:
Masayuki Ikeda

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