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Godzilla Raids Again (ゴジラの逆襲, Gojira no Gyakushū ^?, lit. Godzilla's Counterattack) is a 1955 tokusatsu kaiju film produced past Toho Visitor Ltd., serving equally the 2nd installment in the Godzilla franchise, besides equally the Showa series. The motion picture was released to Japanese theaters on April 24, 1955. It was then released to American theaters as Gigantis, the Fire Monster on May 21, 1959.

Godzilla Raids Again was directed by Motoyoshi Oda, produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka, and written by Shigeaki Hidaka, Shigeru Kayama, Takeo Murata. Takeo had previously assisted in writing the screenplay for the original 1954 picture. This films follows 1954's Godzilla, and details not only the render of Godzilla, merely also the advent of a fearsome new antagonist known as Anguirus.

The film featured a relatively rushed product, and the overall negative reception to the film atomic number 82 to a hiatus in the series. This was concluded with the inflow of a sequel in 1962: King Kong vs. Godzilla, in which Godzilla engages in combat with fellow cinema icon Male monarch Kong.

Contents

• 1 Plot
• 2 Staff
• iii Cast
• 4 Appearances
  • 4.ane Monsters
  • 4.2 Weapons
  • 4.iii Vehicles
• 5 Alternate titles
• 6 Theatrical releases
• 7 Strange releases
  • 7.1 U.S. release
• viii Box office
• 9 Reception
• ten Home media releases
• 11 Trivia
• 12 References

Plot

Two pilots named Tsukioka and Kobayashi are hunting for schools of fish for a tuna cannery company in Osaka. Kobayashi's airplane malfunctions and is forced to state near Iwato Island, an uninhabited strip of rocks formed past volcanic eruptions. Tsukioka then looks for Kobayashi and finds him condom, with simply a wrist sprain. While talking, the 2 men hear some foreign sounds and observe two monsters fighting. Tsukioka immediately recognizes ane of the monsters to be Godzilla. The ii monsters then autumn off a cliff, into the ocean.

Tsukioka and Kobayashi report to the authorities in Osaka, and find out that the other creature, Godzilla was fighting Anguirus. A group of scientists with the two pilots researched Anguirus in a book written by a Polish scientist. Anguirus and Godzilla lived around the aforementioned fourth dimension millions of years ago. Anguirus hated hostile creatures, which explains the intense rivalry between Anguirus and Godzilla.

Dr. Yamane, who experienced Godzilla's first attack, was too nowadays at the meeting, and shows a film of Godzilla attacking Tokyo but one year before. He so explains that the monster Tsukioka and Kobayashi saw is some other Godzilla. Yamane states that at that place is no way to kill Godzilla, and that Daisuke Serizawa, the inventor of the weapon used to kill the previous Godzilla, the Oxygen Destroyer, had died and burned the formula. Yamane, though, suggests that the military should use flares on Godzilla to concenter the monster away from the shore. Godzilla becomes angry when he sees lights because the hydrogen flop's bright explosion had awakened him.

One mean solar day unexpectedly, Godzilla shows up on the shore of Osaka. Jets are sent to shoot flares from their planes to lead Godzilla away from the shore. Godzilla sees the flames, and, as Yamane predicted, starts to walk away.

Meanwhile, a prison truck transports unsafe criminals to another part of the country. All of the criminals, using torso linguistic communication, decided that this would be a corking opportunity to escape from prison house. The prisoners beat up the two policemen guarding the back door of the truck, and run abroad. A few of them find a gasoline truck, and put the petal to the metal. The truck crashes into an industrial building and starts a massive fire.

The burn attracts Godzilla to the shore of Osaka once again. A few minutes after, Anguirus swims to shore and attacks Godzilla. The two creatures fight an intense battle, while destroying several buildings, including the tuna cannery that Tsukioka and Kobayashi work for. Godzilla finally bites Anguirus' cervix, and throws him on a moat near Osaka Castle. Godzilla then fires his atomic ray, and burns Anguirus to death.

Tsukioka and Kobayashi are transferred to a Hokkaido plant. During a company party, Tsukioka and Kobayashi are notified that Godzilla destroyed 1 of the company fishing boats. The military, and Tsukioka begin a massive search for Godzilla. Tsukioka spots Godzilla pond to the shore of a small, icy isle. He notifies the cannery, and Kobayashi takes off in his airplane to switch shifts with Tsukioka.

Kobayashi dives his plane towards Godzilla to distract him from walking back into the body of water. Tsukioka so transferred to the air strength, travels on a jet with an one-time college friend. They driblet bombs on Godzilla only are unsuccessful. Godzilla and then wades towards shore. Koboyashi dives towards Godzilla again but Godzilla fires his diminutive ray on Kobayashi's aeroplane. The airplane then crashes on an icy mountain, killing Kobayashi.

Tsukioka grieves but and then notices that the military tin shoot missiles at the mountain, and bury Godzilla in an avalanche. The jets burn down the missiles, and bury Godzilla in snow to his waist.

The jets return to base of operations to reload, and Tsukioka is authorized to wing in his own jet. The jets return to the icy island, and shoot missiles at the mountain, burying Godzilla to his neck. Tsukioka and then shoots his missiles burial Godzilla completely. Tsukioka looks to the sky, and says, "Kobayashi, we buried Godzilla for you."

Staff

Staff part on the left, staff fellow member's name on the right.

• Directed by Motoyoshi Oda
• Written by Shigeaki Hidaka, Shigeru Kayama, Takeo Murata
• Produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka
• Music by Masaru Sato
• Cinematography by Seiichi Endo
• Edited by Kazuji Taira
• Production pattern by Teruaki Abe, Takeo Kita, Akira Watanabe
• Special effects past Eiji Tsuburaya

Cast

Actor's name on the left, graphic symbol played on the right.

• Hiroshi Koizumi as Shoichi Tsukioka
• Minoru Chiaki as Kojikawa Kobayashi
• Setsuko Wakayama as Hidemi Yamaji
• Takashi Shimura equally Doctor Kyohei Yamane
• Masao Shimizu as Zoologist Tadokoro
• Sonosuke Sawamura as Hokkaido Branch Managing director Shingo Shibeki
• Seijiro Onda as Commander of Osaka'south SDF Terasawa
• Yoshio Tsuchiya as Member of Osaka's SDF Tajima
• Minosuke Yamada as Chief of Civil Defense
• Yukio Kasama as President of Fishery Koehi Wamaji
• Mayuri Mokusho equally Radio Operator Yasuko Inouye
• Ren Yamamoto as Commander of Landing Craft
• Takeo Oikawa as Osaka Chief of Police force
• Shin Otomo as Convict Leader
• Senkichi Omura as Convict
• Shoichi Hirose as Convict
• Junpei Natsuki as Captive

Appearances

Monsters

• Godzilla
• Anguirus

Weapons

• Oxygen Destroyer (Mentioned but)

Vehicles

• 24 Twin Rocket Automobile
• Cessna 170
• F86F Sabre
• Landing Craft
• Lockheed T-33A Meteor
• M24 Chaffee Tank
• Saunders-Roe A.36 Lerwick (Saro Lerwick)

Alternating titles

• Gigantis, the Burn Monster (Us; Gigantis, el Monstruo de Fuego; Mexico)
• Godzilla's Counterattack (Literal Japanese)
• The King of the Monsters (El Rey de los Monstruos; Spain)
• The Return of Godzilla (Le Retour de Godzilla; France; De Terugkeer van Godzilla; Belgium)
• Godzilla Returns (Godzilla kehrt zurück; Frg)
• The King of the Monsters (Il Re de Mostri; Italian republic)
• Godzilla Attacks Again (Godzilla Ataca Novamente; Brazil)

Theatrical releases

• Nihon - April 24, 1955
• United States - May 21, 1959
• Portugal - November 1955
• Italia - 1955
• Spain - 1958
• France - October 1, 1957
• Federal republic of germany - Baronial 29, 1958
• Turkey - May 1959
• South Korea - May 17, 1960
• Mexico - June xxx, 1960

Foreign releases

U.S. release

American Gigantis, the Fire Monster poster

Following the successful U.S. release of Godzilla, Male monarch of the Monsters!, Toho sold the American distribution rights of Godzilla Raids Again to Harry Rybnick and Edward Barison. Their idea was to create a new film for AB-PT Pictures Corporation using the special effects sequences from Godzilla Raids Again. Ib Melchior and Edwin Watson drafted a screenplay, titled The Volcano Monsters, in which Godzilla and Anguirus, now respectively referred to as a Tyrannosaurus rex and an Ankylosaurus, are discovered in a volcanic cavern. Toho shipped Godzilla and Anguirus suits to Hollywood to allow the producers to motion picture new footage of the monsters. Ultimately, AB-PT Pictures Corp. closed down in 1957 before production started on The Volcano Monsters. The monster suits were eventually lost.

In 1958, the picture show'southward U.S. distribution rights were acquired by producer Paul Schreibman, who hired Hugo Grimaldi to re-write and re-edit the film, re-titling it Gigantis, the Burn Monster. Aside from changing Godzilla'southward proper name to "Gigantis," Grimaldi'due south version changes the origins of the monsters: "Gigantis" and Anguirus are described as ii related species of prehistoric fire monsters. The sound effects of the monsters were altered to reflect this, with several shots of Godzilla augmented with Anguirus' roar. Additionally, nearly all of Masaru Sato'southward original score was replaced with library music, most of which was composed past Paul Sawtell and Bert Shefter for other science fiction films. Stock footage from other scientific discipline fiction films featuring dinosaurs was as well added into the motion-picture show. For years, information technology was believed that the reason for these changes was that Warner Bros. did not have the rights to Godzilla's proper noun. However, Paul Schreibman said that he changed Godzilla's name to "Gigantis" to give the audience the impression that they were seeing a new monster, believing an original film would sell amend than a sequel. He has since claimed he came to regret that decision.

The English dubbing, also supervised and directed past Grimaldi, was recorded at Ryder Sound Service, Inc. in Hollywood. The vocalisation cast featured veteran performers Keye Luke, Marvin Miller, and Paul Frees, equally well equally a very young George Takei, of Star Expedition fame. Luke was bandage as Tsukioka, whose character now narrated the events of the moving picture. In addition to voicing Kobayashi, Miller narrated a pre-credit stock footage montage detailing human's scientific progress.

After completing the Americanization of the film, Paul Schreibman sold the theatrical rights to Warner Bros., which released the film on May 21, 1959. Gigantis, the Fire Monster was presented on a double bill with Teenagers from Outer Space, which Warner as well purchased from Schreibman.

On November 7, 2006, Archetype Media released the Japanese and American versions of Godzilla Raids Once again on DVD. Prior to this release, the moving-picture show had been unavailable on North American dwelling house video since Video Treasures' VHS release in 1989. A notable divergence between the original Gigantis and the U.S. version released by Classic Media is the fact the Gigantis title card has been replaced with a newer Godzilla Raids Again title bill of fare, by asking of Toho.

Box part

The flick sold approximately 8,340,000 tickets in Japan, making it the tertiary virtually-attended Godzilla flick in Nippon at the time. Information technology grossed around one,700,000 yen, or $1,670,080.

Reception

The film was more often than not poorly received by fans and critics, who criticized it as a rushed sequel. It is, nonetheless, notable for being the commencement Godzilla film to introduce the formula of Godzilla contesting other monsters, which would become a staple of the franchise.

The poor response to the moving picture briefly put the serial on hiatus until 1962'southward King Kong vs. Godzilla.

The American version of Godzilla Raids Over again received negative reviews by modern critics and fans, due to Godzilla being renamed to Gigantis, and besides Godzilla's roar beingness contradistinct by using the Anguirus roar, changing a lot of parts of the plot, using a agglomeration of stock footage, and replacing the music with stock music such as some music taken from the film Kronos.

Home media releases

Distributor	Released	Region	Language	Format	Misc.
Toho	2001	Region 2	Japanese	N/A	N/A
Classic Media[2]	July 1, 2012	Region 1	English Japanese	Multiple formats Airtight-captioned Black and white NTSC	1.33:one aspect ratio 160 minutes run time 1 disc Japanese version

Trivia

• Godzilla Raids Once again was the first Godzilla flick to feature 2 monsters.
• The Godzilla arrange used for this film, the GyakushuGoji, was slimmer and lighter than the previous ShodaiGoji suit used in 1954, putting less pressure level on the actor, and making every fight scene with Anguirus easier.
• The J.South.D.F.'southward tactic of enforcing a blackout in Osaka to protect it from Godzilla is the same tactic used by Japan during Globe War Two to protect cities from Centrolineal bombing raids.
• In the American version of Godzilla Raids Again, Godzilla'southward roar was altered to sound like Anguirus' roar, due to this version establishing that "Gigantis" and Anguirus are related. His normal roar is still heard in many instances, though, and the roars are interchanged erratically.
• Godzilla Raids Again is the just Godzilla film to date where Godzilla'due south scutes do non glow prior to him releasing his diminutive jiff.
• This is the beginning film in which Godzilla is defeated by the J.South.D.F. However, Godzilla Raids Over again is the only Showa era picture show wherein the J.S.D.F. wins out over Godzilla with a coordinated tactical strike, and with no aid from another monster or some sophisticated class of technology.
• There are no scenes which feature Godzilla using his heat ray from the total suit-view. Every time he does, the manus-operated puppet head is used. This is due to the fact that the adjust's mouth could not open wide enough to show Godzilla firing his atomic jiff. This was also the case in the original Godzilla.
• Gigantis, the Fire Monster was distributed in the United States past Warner Bros., who would distribute Legendary Pictures' Godzilla and its sequels over 55 years later on.
• Later this film's release, Toho took a seven-year suspension from making Godzilla films. Notwithstanding, during these 7 years they continued to make kaiju films, and introduced some of the almost recognizable monsters other than Godzilla from the Showa era, including Rodan and Mothra.
• In the Kaiju Guide for the 2014 Godzilla game, Anguirus' bio states that he once battled a monster called "Gigantis," who has since been banished from this airplane of existence, an inside joke relating to the American version of Godzilla Raids Over again.
• Godzilla Raids Again is the 2d and last Godzilla moving picture to be filmed in blackness and white.
• Godzilla Raids Again, forth with the original Godzilla, are the only Godzilla films released in the 1950s.

References

1. ↑ ゴジラの逆襲 Wikipedia. Retrieved June xviii, 2017
2. ↑ (July one, 2012). Godzilla Raids Once again Amazon. Retrieved June 18, 2017

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