The Return of Godzilla (1984)
Overview
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.
Production Companies
Additional Info
| Budget | $6,000,000.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $11,000,000.00 |
| Original Language | ja |
| Popularity | 6.845 |
Directed By
Koji Hashimoto
Crew
Kazutami Hara
Akira Sakuragi
Toshimitsu Oneda
Reijirō Koroku
Tomoyuki Tanaka
Yoshitami Kuroiwa
Hideichi Nagahara
Koji Hashimoto
Nobuyuki Tanaka
Teruyoshi Nakano
Takahide Morichi
Shinji Kojima
Takao Okawara
Shinji Higuchi
Teruyoshi Nakano
Teruyoshi Nakano
Kunio Miyoshi
Kiyotaka Matsumoto
Kensho Yamashita
Fumio Tanaka
Eiichi Asada
Hideo Aoki
Takeshi Miyanishi
Nobuyuki Yasumaru
Mitsuo Miyakawa
Takeaki Tsukada
Takeaki Tsukada
Kohhei Mikami
Mamoru Kume
Koji Matsumoto
Takeshi Miyanishi
Yoshio Ishii
Takashi Nakao
Yasuyuki Inoue
Tadaaki Watanabe
Yoshikazu Manoda
Yoshio Ishii
Yoshikazu Manoda
Masayuki Ikeda
Kohhei Mikami
Takeshi Yamamoto
Akio Tashiro
Kenji Kawasaki
Fusako Takahashi
Fumiko Umezawa
Hitoshi Hoshino
Noboru Ikeda
Hideo Inagaki
Sôichirô Tahara
Mutsumi Toyoshima
Norio Hayashi
Tomoyuki Tanaka
Mikio Mori
Yoshinori Ishizuki
Tadao Tanaka
Yoshiki Kasahara
Hiroko Kajiyama
Kiyomi Kanazawa
Yutaka Tsuchiya
Nobuyuki Yasumaru
Akira Oba
Shunji Yokota
Tomoki Kobayashi
Tomoki Kobayashi
TOP CAST
Keiju Kobayashi
Prime Minister Seiki Mitamura
Ken Tanaka
Goro Maki
Yasuko Sawaguchi
Naoko Okumura
Shin Takuma
Hiroshi Okumura
Yōsuke Natsuki
Professor Makoto Hayashida
Eitarō Ozawa
Minister of Finance Kanzaki
Taketoshi Naitō
Chief Cabinet Secretary Takegami
Nobuo Kaneko
Home Affairs Minister Isomura
Mizuho Suzuki
Foreign Minister Emori
Junkichi Orimoto
Director-General of the Defense Agency
Hiroshi Koizumi
Professor Minami
Kunio Murai
Secretary Henmi
Kei Satō
Chief Editor Gondo
Shigeo Katô
Captain of the Yahata Maru
Walter Nichols
Rosenburg, Special Envoy for the President of the United States
Alexander Kilis
Chefsky, Special Envoy for the Soviet Union
Takenori Emoto
Desk Editor Kitagawa
Koji Ishizaka
Power plant guard
Tetsuya Takeda
Homeless man
Joe Raznack
Kramer, American Ambassador (uncredited)
Joseph Grace
Zazimov, Soviet Ambassador (uncredited)
Kenpachirō Satsuma
Godzilla
Akira Toriyama
Man fleeing from Godzilla (uncredited)
Yuji Horii
Man fleeing from Godzilla (uncredited)
Akira Sakuma
Man fleeing from Godzilla (uncredited)
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