Mothra vs. Godzilla (Mosura tai Gojira)
Directed by Ishiro Honda
Written by Shin’ichi Sekizawa
1964/Japan
Toho Company
First viewing/FilmStruck
[box] News Photographer Junko ‘Yoka’ Nakanishi: I’ve been trying to get a shot of the area, but the land is moving. Look, over there. [the earth moves, and out emerges a monster]
Mayor: Ah! Oh! Godzilla![/box]
Super-hero monster Mothra flies to the rescue in another in Toho’s Godzilla series.
A huge egg washes up on a shore near Tokyo and is immediately snapped up by a greedy promoter. This turns out to be one of Mothra’s eggs and the two tiny high priestesses of Infant Island reappear to beg for its return. Greed prevails until Godzilla reemerges nearby and Mothra is needed to stop the total annihilation of the city.
By this time the miniature work in these things had taken a turn for the worse and the film is far from a must see. Nevertheless, the little priestesses are cute and it’s cool to see Godzilla attacked by twin larvae.
FilmStruck has the subtitled version, which is a plus.
Clip – dubbed version
