Mothra vs. Godzilla

UPC: 828768567999

Studio: Sony Wonder (Video)

Summary: Ishiro Honda directed this fourth Godzilla film (the second for Mothra), which is bogged down at the start by an uninteresting set-up involving corporate intrigue and a pair of boring reporters. Godzilla's first appearance is not very impressive, as he rises from a sandy beach looking distinctly the worse for wear since his last outing in Kingukongu Tai Gojira (1963). The miniscule Peanut Sisters (Emi Ito, Yumi Ito) are around again, looking for one of the giant eggs which their moth goddess is always losing, and the usual heavy-handed moralizing about mankind's destructive nature is very much in evidence. Other than the peculiar set decoration on an irradiated island which looks as if it fell out of a 1930s adventure movie, the first 50 minutes or so are quite weak. After that, however, the toy tanks start firing, the natives start fleeing, the beasts start battling, and the film starts to be entertaining. The fight scenes are well-staged, given the clumsiness of the participants, and stand as some of the best such sequences of the 1960s. The eventual capture and electrocution of Godzilla in a giant net is nicely handled as well. This installment was followed by the much more interesting San Daikaiju: Chikyu Saidai No Kessen (1965), the first of the space-oriented entries in the series. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi

Category: Science Fiction

Features: English subtitles
Japanese version of film
Audio commentary by Ed Godzisszewski and Steve Ryfle
Slide show of original movie posters
Akira Ifukube biography with tribute by Shogo Tomiyama
Original Japanese trailer

Mothra vs. Godzilla

Format: DVD

Release Date: 01/01/1899

Audio: DD2 Dolby Digital Stereo

Runtime: 176 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English

Subtitles: English

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Disc #1 -- Mothra Vs. Godzilla
1. Introduction [1:23]
2. Hurricane Sized Egg [8:34]
3. Greed and Little Girls [9:11]
4. Give Us Back the Egg [4:45]
5. Godzilla Incubator [12:18]
6. Send in the Fleet [5:44]
7. Radioactive Island [10:09]
8. Money Problems [6:10]
9. Scrambled Eggs? [10:37]
10. Hatch-y Tune [8:42]
11. Save the Children [10:27]
1. Introduction [1:49]
2. Hurricane Sized Egg [8:43]
3. Greed and Little Girls [9:10]
4. Give Us Back the Egg [5:23]
5. Godzilla Incubator [12:12]
6. Military Orders [3:45]
7. Radioactive Island [10:40]
8. Money Problems [6:15]
9. Scrambled Eggs? [10:40]
10. Hatch-y Tune [8:48]
11. Save the Children [11:08]

Cast and Crew: Yoshifumi Jajima  Actor 
Yoshio Kosugi  Actor 
Yoshibumi Tajima  Actor 
Yutaka Sada  Actor 
Ikio Sawamura  Actor 
Susumu Fujita  Actor 
Kenji Sahara  Actor 
Emi Ito  Actor 
Kenzo Tadake  Actor 
Jun Tazaki  Actor 
Haruo Nakajima  Actor 
Ren Yamamoto  Actor 
Ishiro Honda  Director 
Akira Ifukube  Composer (Music Score) 
Shinichi Sekizawa  Screenwriter 
Tomoyuki Tanaka  Producer 
Sanezumi Fujimoto  Producer 
Akira Takarada  Actor 
Yuriko Hoshi  Actor 
Hiroshi Koizumi  Actor 
Yu Fujiki  Actor 

Country: Japan