From: dave@blackbox.cc.columbia.edu (David Milner)
Subject: Re: GODZILLA
Keywords: Godzilla Mothra Japanese Monster
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 18:01:36 GMT

A LISTING OF GIANT MONSTER FILMS PRODUCED BY THE TOHO COMPANY LTD.
THAT DO NOT FEATURE GODZILLA:

1. RODAN, THE FLYING MONSTER (1956): A miner is found dead, his
body horribly mutilated. A fellow worker is suspected at first, but
the cause of the tragedy is soon discovered to be a giant insect.
Two flying prehistoric reptiles appear shortly afterward wreaking
havoc, and the military proves unable to destroy them.

2. THE MYSTERIANS (1957): Alien beings land in Japan claiming to
have come to conduct scientific research, but they in fact plan to
kidnap as many women as possible and use them as breeding stock.
The authorities soon discover the true intentions of the aliens,
and a furious battle with highly advanced weapons ensues.

3. VARAN, THE UNBELIEVABLE (1958): Experiments being conducted to
see if salt water can be converted to fresh in a cost-effective
manner arouse a huge prehistoric monster that terrorizes northern
Japan. Several attempts are made by the military to kill the
creature, but it is not until the monster is seen biting at flares
released from aircraft that a means of ending the beast's reign is
found.

4. BATTLE IN OUTER SPACE (1959): Marauding aliens from outer space
blow up an orbiting space station, and two ships are sent to
destroy the aliens' base located on the dark side of the moon. They
are successful, but the aliens retaliate by sending an entire fleet
of ships to destroy civilization.

5. MOTHRA (1961): An entrepreneur from the country of Rolisica
kidnaps two tiny fairies from Infant Island, located in the South
Pacific, and forces them to appear at his nightclub in Tokyo. An
enormous caterpillar that the fairies can communicate with through
telepathy arrives in Japan to rescue them, but the military
seriously wounds the creature. The monster encases itself in a
cocoon, and soon afterward emerges as a giant moth. The
entrepreneur takes the fairies to his native country, and the
creature takes off in pursuit.

6. GORATH (1962): It is discovered that a rogue star is on a
collision course with the Earth. Jet engines are constructed in
Antarctica in the hopes that the Earth can be moved out of the
star's path in time to avoid disaster, but just as the engines are
ignited, a giant creature appears and begins to wreak havoc.

7. ATRAGON (1963): The imperialistic underwater civilization of Mu
declares war on all of those who live on the surface of the Earth.
The battle seems hopeless at first, but it is soon discovered that
a Japanese military commander, long thought lost in battle during
WW II, has secretly developed a highly advanced submarine that
could be the only means of defeating Mu. When approached, he
refuses to fight, but his daughter eventually convinces him to join
the battle. The submarine is launched, but on its way to attack Mu,
it is seized by a huge monster.

8. DAGORA, THE SPACE MONSTER (1964): An inept gang of jewel
thieves, already being trailed by two policemen, finds itself even
more frustrated when a number of enormous creatures from space,
which also have an affinity for certain minerals, appear in Japan.

9. FRANKENSTEIN CONQUERS THE WORLD (1965): It is 1944, and World
War II is coming to a close. Knowing that defeat is not far off,
German military officials decide to hand over the living heart of
the Frankenstein creature to the Japanese for safe keeping. They
transport it to Hiroshima, and after the first atomic bomb is
dropped, the heart begins growing into a huge, grotesque human
being.

10. WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS (1966): A huge green monster terrorizes
Japan, and the military is unable to stop him. A plan to
electrocute the beast is developed and quickly put into effect, but
just when it appears that the plan is going to work, a brown
monster of the same species as the green one appears.

11. KING KONG ESCAPES (1967): A giant robot is created by an
opportunistic scientist to mine a rare radioactive substance. When
the robot proves unable to do the job, the scientist captures King
Kong and, through hypnosis, forces him to do the mining. King Kong
escapes after a short period of time and heads for Japan. The robot
is sent to retrieve him, and the two end up battling each other in
downtown Tokyo.

12. YOG, MONSTER FROM SPACE (1970): An unmanned space capsule in
orbit around the Earth is taken over by a strange alien life force.
The life force causes the capsule to come down in the South
Pacific, and enters the bodies of three different sea creatures.
They quickly grow to enormous proportions, and begin wreaking havoc
on a nearby island.
David Milner  Columbia University
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