Kaijûtô no kessen: Gojira no musuko
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Plot synopsis:
A team of scientists are trying to perfect a weather-controlling system. Their efforts are hampered by the arrival of a nosy reporter and by the sudden presence of 2-meter tall giant praying mantises. The first test of the weather control system goes awry when the remote control for a radioactive balloon is jammed by an unexplained signal coming from the center of the island. The balloon detonates prematurely, creating a radioactive storm that causes the giant mantises to grow to enormous sizes. Investigating the mantises, which are named Kamacuras (Gimantis in the English-dubbed version), the scientists find the monstrous insects digging an egg out from under a pile of earth. The egg hatches, revealing a baby Godzilla. The scientists realize that the baby's telepathic cries for help were the cause of the interference that ruined their experiment. Shortly afterwards, Godzilla arrives on the island in response to the infant's cries, demolishing the scientist's base while rushing to defend the baby. Godzilla kills two of the Kamacuras during the battle while one manages to fly away to safety, Godzilla then adopts the baby.
The baby Godzilla, named Minilla, quickly grows to about half the size of the adult Godzilla and Godzilla instructs it on the important monster skills of roaring and using its atomic ray. At first, Minilla has difficulty producing anything more than atomic smoke rings, but Godzilla discovers that stressful conditions (i.e. stomping on its tail) or motivation produces a true radioactive blast. Minilla comes to the aid of Reiko when she is attacked by a Kamacuras, but inadvertently awakens Kumonga (Spiga in the English-dubbed version), a giant spider that was sleeping in a valley. Kumonga attacks the caves where the scientists are hiding and Minilla stumbles into the fray.
Kumonga traps Minilla and the final Kamacuras with his webbing, but as Kumonga begins to feed on the deceased Kamacuras, Godzilla arrives to save the day. Godzilla saves Minilla and they work together to defeat Kumonga by using their atomic rays on the giant spider. Hoping to keep the monsters from interfering in their attempt to escape the island, the scientists finally use their perfected weather altering device on the island and the once tropical island becomes buried in snow and ice. As the scientists are saved by an American submarine, Godzilla and Minilla begin to hibernate as they wait for the island to become tropical again.

Review: I expected something along the lines of GODZILLA'S REVENGE, what I got instead was a pretty exciting giant monster film.
I'd recommend this one mostly to older kids who love science fiction adventure stories and who won't be frightened by all the cool-looking giant insect critters.
This is the Godzilla which I watched as a kid, back when I was still in the States, this movie which features a hatch ling of Godzilla's kind, though goofy looking, it was cute and silly, and it blows rings of energy instead of the flame Godzilla does.
It has a parent-child relationship like story between Minya and Godzilla, like when the giant monster insects attack, Godzilla helps it, and tries to show it how to really use the fire breath, but then it improves in the end, and it also shows that Godzilla really does care for the young one after all(awwwww).
Bad dubbing, no sfx, just extra parts to use as special effects, goofy designs, but overall a good movie, better than the US Godzilla(1998).
Despite being enjoyable films, the last two Godzilla installments had not matched the success of Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster (1964) and had fallen below expectations at the box office.
In an effort to boost audience attendance, Toho Studios made the decision to soften the king of the monsters and give him a cute baby son.
The first Godzilla film to be geared directly towards children, Son of Godzilla (1967) is harmless fun and sweet - the cinematic equivalent of a gum drop.
Either Toho's kiddie approach had backfired or the film just couldn't compete with the rising popularity of television.Son of Godzilla (1967) shouldn't be the first Godzilla movie you see, or even the second or third.
If you have small children and want to introduce them to kaiju films, I recommend Son of Godzilla..
I am a huge Godzilla fan, I grew up with Godzilla, I just love seeing this awesome monster just destroy cities and fighting other monsters.
The story is very good and I really love the way Godzilla looks in this film.
The list can go on, but I feel that these attributes as well as the setting, the story about scientists on an island trying to change weather patterns, and the overgrown monsters of a spider and several praying mantis, along of course with Godzilla enhance the film and make it one of my favourites of the series.
Like the previous film, this movie was set on an island, where scientists test weather experiments.
The bugs discover a monster egg and out hatches a slimy, buff, sickly- looking monster that is supposed to be the son of Godzilla.
If you would like to see a better-looking Son of Godzilla, catch the young Godzilla of the Heisei Series.
But, the good stuff we get to see in this movie is Masaru Sato's likable and comforting music score and Shinichi Sekizawa's adventurous and positive story.
The monster battles are great; I especially like the the mantises and the huge spider sequences - effectively executed.
It's entertaining, fun, and also very heartwarming whenever we get to see Godzilla taking the little guy Minya under his wing (Godzilla's always been more of a "surrogate" dad rather than an organic one in my view).A group of scientists are conducting intense weather experiments on a remote island that just so happens to be inhabited by giant praying mantises, a giant spider that spins deadly webs, and a large egg that hatches to produce a "little Godzilla".
The Big G gets to teach Minya all about breathing fire, stomping enemies, and also some quality father and son bonding (awww).Those who don't like Godzilla movies very much are advised to stay away; even some die-hard fans don't care for the sentiment expressed in this entry.
There is still a lot of steady monster action on hand, a good pairing between a young visiting reporter and a pretty island girl, and a truly touching ending that nearly brings a tear to my eye every time I see it.
This movie features Godzilla's son, which is exactly what you'd expect to see.
While most Godzilla movies have the flaw of focusing too much on the humans, I'm thinking this one had the problem of focusing too much on the monsters.
Minya is pretty annoying and doesn't even look much like a baby Godzilla.
Scientists experimenting with changes in weather on a tropical island get more than they bargained for when Godzilla shows up to battle humongous insects and protect his newborn child.This chapter of the ongoing Godzilla saga is clearly meant to be silly, playful and for children.
This movie and "Godzilla vs the sea monster" makes up a double header of Godzilla movies where almost all the action takes place on an island.
While on the island the scientists have their troubles such as the heat, a strange sickness, and some of the group going crazy and Godzilla has his such as keeping his son in line (which is kind of hard), fighting the mantis, and a huge spider.
But it has been revived from time to time, most recently in the Harrison Ford film Six Days Seven Nights.AS a 'tropical romance', Son of Godzilla is pretty good, certainly throughout the first hour.
And of course, they provide some of the humor here; with this film, Toho Studios effectively revealed that they knew exactly what they were doing with the Godzilla films, and weren't afraid to allow one of their own directors to poke fun at the series; after-all, it's neither parody nor sarcasm, but a bit of gentle rib-nudging.
I find it hard to dislike the scenes where (a highly anthropomorphized) Godzilla trains his son, even though I know it's a transgression of everything the series had seemed to stand for previously.Yes, the film is an odd mix, and a bit uneven; still, it's the one Godzilla film that can rightly be said to provide "fun for the whole family", children and adults.
It's not as good as the 1st Godzilla movie Godzilla King of the monsters.
Part 25 to the Japan series is Godzilla M.o.t.h.r.a and King G.h.i.d.o.r.a.h giant monsters on an all out attack.
i don't understand why most shred this movie to pieces: a) it has far better special effects than its ancestors in the 50's b) its plot tries to offer an alternative to 60 minutes of a man in rubber suit smashing pongo or cartonbox minatures...in fact some people criticize both THAT kind of monster movies & THIS kind, where they try to stretch the joke a bit further.
We get to see godzilla's son and the plot revolves around a clumsy reporter - the Asian version of charlie sheen- bothering a few scientists on a remote island for a secret weather experiment while looking for a scoop, and buddying a super hot -at the time, 1967 of course- girl left behind by her parents who died on that same island.
Then you have lots of monsters, overgrown mantises, a giant spider...reminiscent of classic US movies from the silver era.Baby godzilla looks like Mickey Rooney but it's nice...i admit i laughed a couple of times.
Godzilla's cute offspring is discovered on a remote island where a group of scientists (and one hugely irritating reporter) run tests on how to influence the weather, and the largest part of the film just shows how father Godzilla protects his boy from giant wasps and a spider.
Godzilla on a budget...but still King of giant monster movies!.
I've seen it multiple times, and while it's not really practical in the way of Godzilla films, it's still got some pretty neat aspects.
Nevertheless, this is one of the best Godzilla films for children in my opinion, you see many scenes of Godzilla training his adopted son how to fight for himself and be independent.
Here Comes The Son. Eighth Godzilla film tries something different, once again staying away from urban destruction to tell the story of research scientists on a remote island who are conducting experiments on the weather(anticipating global climate change perhaps?) who encounter trouble in the form of giant mantises and a jumbo-sized spider, along with the re-appearance of Godzilla, who now has a son(?) he needs to protect from all the island menaces that are occurring.
Not bad entry does threaten to become silly at times with his comedic "offspring", but monster F/X are first-rate here, and film is quite good-natured, with a most poignant ending..
Son of Godzilla is one of those weird movies which inspire strange feelings.
The story centers on the very human relationship between Godzilla and his son, Minya.
The great scene with Godzilla teaching Minya how to shoot radioactive fire comes to mind.
When Minya is confronted with a monster, i.e. a bully, Godzilla makes Minya fight his own battle but is always there to back up his son.
Godzilla protects Minya and teaches him lessons; and in one of the climactic scenes, the son fights for his father's life; this is poignant.
The scene at the end of the film in which father and son embrace to huddle from the cold is touching.
Then a huge mechanical spider named Spiega attacks Godzilla and son while the scientists' experiment causes it to snow on the island (this is the first and only Godzilla movie that shows the big G in snow).
Son Of Godzilla was the WORST film in the Godzilla franchise.
I remembered when I was little, I didn't like the scene where some Kamacuras broke the Godzilla egg and stated to attack his baby, that was the worst scene of the movie.
The soundtrack in this film didn't really feel like a monster movie, it sounded too embarrassing to be a Godzilla movie, they should've done better than that.The way they ended the story was terrible.
This movie disappointed the Godzilla fans and not in a good way.
The movie give us more of godzilla and his adventures but is only decent, the effects are better than te previous movies, show us a godzilla with more personality of a animal, doing a better job than show us only a fighthing monster, the plot of the humans is interesting but characters are meh not really special and have more serious history than the scenes of godzilla is like a frankestein monster with familiar and serious things..
A group of scientists conducting "experiments" on a hot, deserted island witness giant mantises, a giant spider, and, worst of all, a Godzilla hatchling.
Who exactly is going to be scared, inspired or even amused by a 'cute' baby Godzilla throwing fake rocks about and fighting the most unconvincing giant spider in movie history?
It's all unimaginably twee, has very little in the way of a plot (even for a Godzilla film) and the effects are dire..
Although I am fan of kaiju films, and was when I first saw "Son of Godzilla" in the early 70's, I am not (nor was) the target audience, which was allegedly young women (apparently the goal was to attract the 'dating' crowd).
The immense insects uncover a giant egg, which hatches into a roly-poly frog-faced lizard-like-thing, immediately recognised by the reporter as a baby Godzilla.
The rest of the film follows the attempts of researchers to escape the island while avoiding the various kaiju (in addition to the 'gimantises' there is 'Spiga' (aka 'Kumonga'), a giant spider of unknown origin), while Minilla (a portmanteau of mini-godzilla) bonds with his father and deals with the remaining gimantis and the predatory, colossal arachnid.
Other than some very good puppet work on the giant arthropods, the special effects are pretty weak.
Alternately, if you think that the baby Godzilla is cute and you are touched by the bonding scenes between him and his father, then you might forgive the other weaknesses and enjoy the film.
This is where Godzilla jumps the shark.The special effects are really good but the story is silly and full of holes.
A giant egg is unearthed and cracked open by gimantis'.They witness the birth and the reporter immediately says it's a little Godzilla.If i hadn't been watching a movie called "Son Of Godzilla", I would have never guessed he had anything to do with Godzilla.
That's My Boy or Godzilla Finds A Son. For reasons I'm not figuring out some Japanese scientists working for the United Nations are conducting experiments in climate control and want to make it snow on a tropical island.
When it doesn't work you enlarge some already large insect life and you uncover the egg that hatches the Son Of Godzilla.
When those nasty big insects start threatening the newly hatched young Godzilla, papa comes a running.The only other things I haven't mentioned is a large spider who throws some nasty webs which look like ticker tape that can be melted with heat.
Instead of smoke that melts, the young Godzilla blows smoke rings that sound like monster flatulence.But it's all pretty funny in its own way..
Son of Godzilla,which like the previous Godzilla film,Godzilla Vs The Sea Monster,takes place on a tropical island,is one of the least interesting Godzilla films.
Made for a very young audience,the excitement is negligible and the film is only really memorable for Minya,the son of Godzilla,but not in a good way.
He looks more like the freak offspring of Godzilla and King Kong than a young Godzilla,but then Godzilla also looks awful in this film,{Frogzilla,anyone?}probably the worst suit in the series.
At least the giant praying mantises and the large spider Spiga are well designed and executed.The monster fights are dull, the human side of the film pretty uninteresting,and except for the Godzilla/Minya scenes the film has little of the camp factor that makes some of the other weaker entries such fun to watch {i.e.Godzilla Vs Megalon} but the film does have a touching ending SPOILER WARNING,as Godzilla and his {or her?}son huddle together and start to hibernate as it snows around them.Within it's limits,the film is reasonably done,but unmemorable.
A good one to start your kids off on Godzilla films,though..
Son of Godzilla (1966) ** (out of 4) Decent film has Godzilla and son battling large preying mantis' and a huge spider.
I'm not sure what it is but the film, a cute one, just comes off better with the dub.
I think the story with the scientists is rather dull and doesn't add too much to the film but all the scenes between Godzilla and his son are very good.
Son of Godzilla is one of those Godzilla movies that you will probably not forget because of what happens in it.A group of scientists are on a tropical island.
Later on the scientists discover that there are giant praying mantises on the island.
These mantises come across a large egg that hatches into a little godzilla.
Scientists then decide to start an experiment to make it snow on the island.This is a pretty good Godzilla film.
I just never was a fan of all of the giant insect monsters that Godzilla fought.Also this is one of the worst costumes for Godzilla, head wise that is.
I guess they wanted to make this Godzilla seem less menacing and more parent like.Now for the good things.
Him coming to Minyas'(little Godzilla who is never called this in this movie but that is his name) rescue against Kamakerus is one of the coolest scenes ever in Godzilla history.Godzilla seems to be a good adoptive parent.
Also there is that touching Godzilla scene at the end of the film when Godzilla helps minya up from the snow and hugs him to protect him from the snow.
However Minya does come to the rescue of Godzilla and does develop into a better character by the end of the film.
Minya also learns from Godzilla quite well, at times he just shoots smoke rings at other times he succeeds at breathing radioactive fire.THe monster fights are good.
Minya seems in over his head but he is able to combine with GOdzilla's strength to form an effective duo.So this is a really good Godzilla Film.
The opponents of Godzilla are not all that but the father son relationship worked quite well in this film.
The island setting is beautiful along with the actress playing the island woman.The film does get a bit corny but kids will love it and it's a good introduction into the Godzilla series.
probably one of the best of the showa era godzilla movies godzilla arrives on some island were these scientists have been conducting weather test & the bugs on the island have become humongous any way the giant mantis's named karmacuras break open an egg exposing minya the son of godzilla anyway so he gets the crud beaten out of him for a while till godzilla shows up and torches the bugs godzilla then gives the little guy a ride on his tail,minya loves kicking rocks around,playing jump rope with Godzilla's tail & following humans around,godzilla teach4s him to breath his trademark atomic breath & the Lil guy picks it up pretty quick & the ending scene just melts my heart godzilla despite all the gruff exterior actually does care about the Lil guy.
Meanwhile, Godzilla arrives on the island to take care of a baby Godzilla who hatches from a huge egg.
The monster fight scenes are vigorous and exciting, but it's the moments where Godzilla shows his grouchy, yet protective and supportive paternalistic side which make this picture a total hoot to watch.
The scenes between Godzilla and his son Minya are genuinely sweet, funny and touching; the most endearing sequence occurs when Godzilla shows the cute little tyke the basic beastly behemoth ropes on how to roar and spit fire.
And the ending with Godzilla and Minya is just lovely..
I remember as a kid watching every monster movie I could, and Godzilla was my favorite.