Starring Hiroshi Koizumi, Setsuko Wakayama, Minoru Chiaki, Takashi Shimura, Masao Shimizu
Directed by Motoyoshi Oda
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)
Pilots for a fishing company discover dangerous prehistoric creatures on a remote island that are soon making their way towards the city of Osaka.
Despite the title and this film's status as the first followup to the original Gojira, Godzilla doesn't actually return in the film, although the movie's main creature is almost an exact lookalike. With the same serious tone as the original film, this effort has its moments and some worthy special effects, but pales in comparison to the original, at least in my opinion. It does have some more humor and light hearted moments to balance out the grim devastation, which I thought were welcome, but it's a bit too much of a retread of the original film, without too much new to offer.
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