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The Return of Godzilla

Index The Return of Godzilla

The Return of Godzilla, released in Japan as is a 1984 Japanese science fiction kaiju film featuring Godzilla, produced and distributed by Toho. [1]

83 relations: Akira Ifukube, Akira Kurosawa, Alien (film), Cabinet of Japan, Cold War, Def-Con 4, Dino De Laurentiis, Dr Pepper, DTS-HD Master Audio, Eiji Tsuburaya, Eitaro Ozawa, Electromagnetic pulse, Fred Dekker, Gene Siskel, Gigan, Godzilla, Godzilla (1954 film), Godzilla (franchise), Godzilla 1985, Godzilla Raids Again, Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, Hedorah, Henry G. Saperstein, Hiroshi Koizumi, Hydraulics, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 film), Ishirō Honda, Izu Ōshima, Japan Air Self-Defense Force, Japan Self-Defense Forces, Kagemusha, Kaiju, Kei Satō, Keiju Kobayashi, Ken Tanaka (actor), Kenpachiro Satsuma, King Kong (1976 film), Koji Hashimoto (director), Leslie Nielsen, List of Japanese films of 1984, List of monster movies, List of science fiction films of the 1980s, Ministry of Finance (Japan), Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Japan), Ministry of Home Affairs (Japan), Ministry of the Environment (Japan), Mizuho Suzuki, Monaural, Mount Mihara, Movie Review Query Engine, ..., New World Pictures, Noh, Nuclear warfare, Polyurethane, Prime Minister of Japan, Product placement, Ran (film), Raymond Burr, Reboot (fiction), Roger Ebert, Science fiction film, Sea louse, Soviet Union, Steve Miner, Stop motion, Super X, Taketoshi Naito, Terror of Mechagodzilla, Teruyoshi Nakano, The Thing (1982 film), Three Mile Island accident, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka, UPA (animation studio), Vincent Canby, WatchMojo.com, What's Up, Tiger Lily?, Yasuko Sawaguchi, Yoshifumi Tajima, Yoshitami Kuroiwa, Yosuke Natsuki, 3D film, 5.1 surround sound. Expand index (33 more) »

Akira Ifukube

(31 May 1914 – 8 February 2006) was a Japanese composer, best known for his works on the film scores of the Godzilla movies since 1954.

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Akira Kurosawa

was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, who directed 30 films in a career spanning 57 years.

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Alien (film)

Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott, and starring Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm and Yaphet Kotto.

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Cabinet of Japan

The is the executive branch of the government of Japan.

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Cold War

The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others).

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Def-Con 4

Def-Con 4 is a 1985 Canadian post-apocalyptic film, portraying three astronauts who survive World War III aboard a space station and return to earth to find greatly changed circumstances.

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Dino De Laurentiis

Agostino "Dino" De Laurentiis (8 August 1919 – 10 November 2010) was an Italian film producer.

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Dr Pepper

Dr Pepper is a carbonated soft drink marketed as having a unique flavor.

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DTS-HD Master Audio

DTS-HD Master Audio (DTS-HD MA) is a combined lossless/lossy audio codec created by DTS (formerly Digital Theater Systems), commonly used for surround-sound movie soundtracks on Blu-ray Disc.

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Eiji Tsuburaya

(July 10, 1901 – January 25, 1970, in Sukagawa, Fukushima) was a Japanese special effects director responsible for many Japanese science-fiction films and television series, being one of the co-creators of the Godzilla series, as well as the main creator of the Ultra Series.

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Eitaro Ozawa

was a Japanese actor.

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Electromagnetic pulse

An electromagnetic pulse (EMP), also sometimes called a transient electromagnetic disturbance, is a short burst of electromagnetic energy.

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Fred Dekker

Fred Dekker (born April 9, 1959) is an American screenwriter and film director best known for his cult classic horror comedy films Night of the Creeps and The Monster Squad (written with Shane Black).

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Gene Siskel

Eugene Kal Siskel (January 26, 1946 – February 20, 1999) was an American film critic and journalist for the Chicago Tribune.

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Gigan

is a kaiju from Toho's Godzilla and Zone Fighter franchises who first appeared in Godzilla vs. Gigan.

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Godzilla

() is a monster originating from a series of tokusatsu films of the same name from Japan.

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Godzilla (1954 film)

is a 1954 Japanese science fiction kaiju film featuring Godzilla, produced and distributed by Toho.

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Godzilla (franchise)

franchise is a multimedia series featuring Godzilla, owned and created by Toho.

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Godzilla 1985

Godzilla 1985 is a 1985 Japanese-American science-fiction kaiju film co-directed by R.J. Kizer and Koji Hashimoto.

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Godzilla Raids Again

is a 1955 Japanese science fiction kaiju film featuring Godzilla, produced and distributed by Toho.

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Godzilla, King of the Monsters!

Godzilla, King of the Monsters! is a 1956 Japanese-American science fiction kaiju film, co-directed by Terry O. Morse and Ishirō Honda.

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Hedorah

, also known as the Smog Monster, is a kaiju monster who first appeared in Toho's 1971 film Godzilla vs. Hedorah.

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Henry G. Saperstein

Henry Gahagen "Hank" Saperstein (born in Chicago June 2, 1918, died Beverly Hills, California June 24, 1998) was a U.S. film producer and distributor.

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Hiroshi Koizumi

(12 August 1926 – 31 May 2015) was a Japanese actor, best known for his starring role in the 1955 film Godzilla Raids Again as well as other Toho Studios monster movies.

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Hydraulics

Hydraulics (from Greek: Υδραυλική) is a technology and applied science using engineering, chemistry, and other sciences involving the mechanical properties and use of liquids.

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 film)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1978 American science fiction horror film directed by Philip Kaufman, and starring Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Veronica Cartwright, Jeff Goldblum and Leonard Nimoy.

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Ishirō Honda

, sometimes miscredited in foreign releases as "Inoshiro Honda", was a Japanese film director and screenwriter.

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Izu Ōshima

is an inhabited volcanic island in the Izu archipelago in the Philippine Sea, approximately southeast of Honshu, Japan, east of the Izu Peninsula and southwest of Bōsō Peninsula.

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Japan Air Self-Defense Force

The (JASDF), sometimes referred to as the Japanese Air Force, is the air warfare branch of the Japan Self-Defense Forces, responsible for the defense of Japanese airspace and for other aerospace operations.

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Japan Self-Defense Forces

The (JSDF), occasionally referred to as the Japan Defense Forces (JDF), Self-Defense Forces (SDF), or Japanese Armed Forces, are the unified military forces of Japan that were established in 1954, and are controlled by the Ministry of Defense.

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Kagemusha

is a 1980 jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa.

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Kaiju

(from Japanese "strange beast") is a Japanese film genre that features giant monsters, usually attacking major cities and engaging the military and other monsters in battle.

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Kei Satō

was a Japanese character actor and narrator.

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Keiju Kobayashi

was a Japanese actor.

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Ken Tanaka (actor)

is a Japanese actor.

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Kenpachiro Satsuma

(born May 27, 1947, in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese actor.

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King Kong (1976 film)

King Kong is a 1976 American monster film produced by Dino De Laurentiis and directed by John Guillermin.

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Koji Hashimoto (director)

was a Japanese film director and producer.

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Leslie Nielsen

Leslie William Nielsen (11 February 192628 November 2010) was a Canadian actor, comedian, and producer.

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List of Japanese films of 1984

A list of films released in Japan in 1984 (see 1984 in film).

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List of monster movies

This is a list of monster movies, about such creatures as extraterrestrial aliens, giant animals, Kaiju (the Japanese counterpart of giant animals, but they can also be machines and plants), mutants, supernatural creatures, or creatures from folklore, such as Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster.

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List of science fiction films of the 1980s

A list of science fiction films released in the 1980s.

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Ministry of Finance (Japan)

The is one of the cabinet-level ministries of the Japanese government.

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Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Japan)

The is a cabinet-level ministry of the Japanese government responsible for the country's foreign relations.

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Ministry of Home Affairs (Japan)

was a ministry in the Japanese government that existed from July 1, 1960, to January 5, 2001, and is now part of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

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Ministry of the Environment (Japan)

The is a Cabinet-level ministry of the government of Japan responsible for global environmental conservation, pollution control, and nature conservation.

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Mizuho Suzuki

(born October 23, 1927) is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Manchukuo.

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Monaural

Monaural or monophonic sound reproduction (often shortened to mono) is sound intended to be heard as if it were emanating from one position.

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Mount Mihara

is an active volcano on the Japanese isle of Izu Ōshima.

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Movie Review Query Engine

The Movie Review Query Engine also known as MRQE, is an online index of movie reviews.

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New World Pictures

New World Pictures (also known as New World Communications Group, Inc. and New World Entertainment) was an American independent production, distribution and (in its final years as an autonomous entity) multimedia company.

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Noh

, derived from the Sino-Japanese word for "skill" or "talent", is a major form of classical Japanese musical drama that has been performed since the 14th century.

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Nuclear warfare

Nuclear warfare (sometimes atomic warfare or thermonuclear warfare) is a military conflict or political strategy in which nuclear weaponry is used to inflict damage on the enemy.

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Polyurethane

Polyurethane (PUR and PU) is a polymer composed of organic units joined by carbamate (urethane) links.

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Prime Minister of Japan

The is the head of government of Japan.

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Product placement

Product placement, also known as embedded marketing, is a marketing technique in which references to specific brands or products are incorporated into another work, such as a film or television program, with specific promotional intent.

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Ran (film)

is a 1985 period tragedy film directed, edited and co-written by Akira Kurosawa.

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Raymond Burr

Raymond William Stacy Burr (May 21, 1917September 12, 1993) was a Canadian-American actor, primarily known for his title roles in the television dramas Perry Mason and Ironside.

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Reboot (fiction)

In serial fiction, to reboot means to discard all continuity in an established fictional universe, work, or series in order to recreate its characters, timeline and backstory from the beginning.

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author.

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Science fiction film

Science fiction film (or sci-fi film) is a genre that uses speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial lifeforms, alien worlds, extrasensory perception and time travel, along with futuristic elements such as spacecraft, robots, cyborgs, interstellar travel or other technologies.

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Sea louse

A sea louse (plural sea lice), often confused with sea fleas, is a member of a family of copepods (small crustaceans) within the order Siphonostomatoida, the Caligidae.

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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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Steve Miner

Stephen C. "Steve" Miner (born June 18, 1951) is an American director of film and television, film producer, and a member of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Stop motion

Stop motion is an animated-film making technique in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments between individually photographed frames so that they appear to exhibit independent motion when the series of frames is played back as a fast sequence.

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Super X

The is a fictional Japanese military aircraft featured in the 1984 Heisei Godzilla film The Return of Godzilla.

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Taketoshi Naito

was a Japanese actor.

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Terror of Mechagodzilla

Terror of Mechagodzilla (released in Japan as is a 1975 Japanese science fiction kaiju film featuring Godzilla, produced and distributed by Toho. The film is directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Teruyoshi Nakano and stars Katsuhiko Sasaki, Tomoko Ai, Akihiko Hirata, and Gorō Mutsumi, with Toru Kawai as Godzilla, Ise Mori as Mechagodzilla, and Tatsumi Nikamoto as Titanosaurus. It is the 15th film in the ''Godzilla'' franchise and the final film in the Shōwa series, and serves as a direct sequel to 1974's Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla. The film was the least successful of the entire Godzilla franchise. The film was released in Japan on March 15, 1975 and received a limited theatrical release in the United States in 1978 by Bob Conn Enterprises as The Terror of Godzilla.

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Teruyoshi Nakano

Teruyoshi Nakano (中野昭慶) (October 1, 1935 in Andong, Manchukuo) was a Japanese Special Effects Director.

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The Thing (1982 film)

The Thing is a 1982 American science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter and written by Bill Lancaster, based on the 1938 John W. Campbell Jr. novella Who Goes There? It tells the story of a group of American researchers in Antarctica who encounter the eponymous "Thing", a parasitic extraterrestrial life form that assimilates and then imitates other organisms.

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Three Mile Island accident

The Three Mile Island accident occurred on March 28, 1979, in reactor number 2 of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station (TMI-2) in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg.

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Toho

is a Japanese film, theater production, and distribution company.

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Tomoyuki Tanaka

was a Japanese film producer, most famous for creating the ''Godzilla'' franchise.

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UPA (animation studio)

United Productions of America, better known as UPA, was an American animation studio active from the 1940s through the 1970s.

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Vincent Canby

Vincent Canby (July 27, 1924 – October 15, 2000) was an American film and theatre critic who served as the chief film critic for The New York Times from 1969 until the early 1990s, then its chief theatre critic from 1994 until his death in 2000.

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WatchMojo.com

WatchMojo.com is a Canadian-based privately held video content producer, publisher, and syndicator.

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What's Up, Tiger Lily?

What's Up, Tiger Lily? is a 1966 American comedy film directed by Woody Allen in his feature-length directorial debut.

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Yasuko Sawaguchi

is a Japanese actress.

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Yoshifumi Tajima

Yoshifumi Tajima (4 August 1918 – 10 September 2009) was an actor in Japanese kaijū films, best known for his role as Kumayama in Mothra vs. Godzilla.

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Yoshitami Kuroiwa

was a Japanese film editor.

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Yosuke Natsuki

was a Japanese actor.

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3D film

A three-dimensional stereoscopic film (also known as three-dimensional sangu, 3D film or S3D film) is a motion picture that enhances the illusion of depth perception, hence adding a third dimension.

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5.1 surround sound

5.1 surround sound ("five-point one") is the common name for six channel surround sound audio systems.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_Godzilla

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