Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
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Date: 2019-02-07

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Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah

Although the film's production crew remained largely unchanged from that of "Godzilla vs. Biollante", the previous film's financial disappointment, due to a lack of child viewership and alleged competition with the contemporary "Back to the Future" franchise, compelled the producers to create a more fantasy-orientated picture with elements of time travel included. It was the first "Godzilla" film to feature a newly orchestrated score by Akira Ifukube since "Terror of Mechagodzilla", and although much more successful than its predecessor, the film became controversial in the United States due to perceived anti-Americanism stemming from a scene where Godzilla kills several American soldiers. Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment released "Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah" and "Godzilla vs. Mothra" on DVD in 1998.

In 1992, science fiction writer Kenichiro Terasawa (Kosuke Toyohara) is writing a book about Godzilla and learns of a group of Japanese soldiers stationed on Lagos Island during the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign. In February 1944, while threatened by American soldiers, the Japanese soldiers were saved by a mysterious dinosaur. He theorizes that the dinosaur was subsequently mutated into Godzilla in 1954 after a hydrogen bomb test on the island. Yasuaki Shindo (Yoshio Tsuchiya), a wealthy businessman who commanded the Japanese soldiers on Lagos Island, confirms that the dinosaur did indeed exist.

Meanwhile, a UFO lands on Mount Fuji. When the Japanese army investigates, they are greeted by Wilson (Chuck Wilson), Grenchiko (Richard Berger), Emmy Kano (Anna Nakagawa) and an android, M-11 (Robert...