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Mothra 3: King Ghidorah's attack (also knwon as Mothra 3 King Ghidorah Raid of terror) is a 1998 toho kaiju film,Directed by Kenji Suzuki and Okihiro Yoneda it is the third film in the 1990's mothra Series.

## Plot

Ghidorah attacks japan stealing children for food and mothra must go back in time to defate him!

## Cast

* Kyoko Donowaki
* Hironori Okajima
* Toru Kodama
* Yoshinobu Yano
* Ayumu Takeda
* Makoto Reno
* Kensuke Kikuchi
* Hiromi Watanabe
* Maki Taniguchi
* Hiromi Geely
* Yurioka Kaori
* Chiharu Tsuji
* Midorikawa Yoko
* Mika Ikeya
* Elementary school teacher: Tota Tani
* Kazunori Mogi
* Naoki Kusumi
* Winter goose
* Katsuya Takamatsu
* Tomisaburo Horikoshi
* Masaaki Morita
* Hideo Usui
* Okado Osamu
* Suzuki painting

## Staff

* Directed by   Okihiro Yoneda
* Written by   Masumi Suetani
* Produced by   Shogo Tomiyama
* Music by   Toshiyuki Watanabe
* Cinematography by   Yoshinori Sekiguchi
* Edited by   Nobuo Ogawa
* Assistant directing by   Masaaki Tezuka
* Special effects by   Kenji Suzuki

## Titles

* Mothra 3: King Ghidorah Attacks (literal Japanese title)
* Mothra 3: Invasion of King Ghidorah (Mosura Surī: Kingu Gidora no shin'nyū; alternate Japanese title)
* Mothra 3 King Ghidorah counterattack (Japanese Title)
* Mothra: King Ghidorah Returns (Mothra: King Ghidorah kehrt zurück; Germany)
* REBIRTH OF MOTHRA 3 (worldwide)

## U.S. release

Rebirth of Mothra III premiered on the Sci-Fi Channel on May 31, 2003, the same day as Rebirth of Mothra and Rebirth of Mothra II, although they had already been released on DVD three years prior. Sony planned to include the film in its 2009 Icons of Sci-Fi: Toho Collection DVD set, but ultimately removed it. Aside from a stint on the free online streaming service Crackle, TV airings remained the only legitimate way to see Rebirth of Mothra III in the U.S. until 2014, when the trilogy was released in a Sony Blu-ray set with Japanese and English audio options.

## Overview

This is the sequel to " Mothra 2 Submarine Battle " and the final work of the Heisei Mothra trilogy. Distribution income is 850 million yen.

In this work, even though Mothra greeted the emerging King Ghidorah , it was defeated, and the fighting method of defeating the King Ghidorah young child when it had traveled to the earth in the past by time travel was performed. In contrast to the adult equivalent to the conventional King Ghidorah (modern type), the King Ghidorah young body that first appeared in this work is called "Cretaceous King Ghidorah"  . Tyrannosaurus , Triceratops , Pteranodon , Apatosaurus appeared in the Mesozoic scene .

Originally a theme of fire  , it was a plot where Mothra departed for the Edo period to defeat the new monster of fire, but the plan was changed to use the new monster, Radon , King Gidora and the existing popular monster. It was

Who played Lola in the previous two works Sayaka Yamaguchi is, by the overcrowded schedule due to the major reduction [ *citation needed* ] can not be cast, to understudy Misato Tate has been appointed. Partly because of this, this work is a development that focused on two people, Mole and Berbera. Yamaguchi was in charge of the opening narration in this work.

In terms of sound, the Dolby Digital system was used as a standard, and for the first time as a Toho movie, digitalization was done only in Japan  .

### Special effects/episode

In this work, instead of Koichi Kawakita until then , Kenji Suzuki participated as a special skill director, all in a new shift  . In addition, four main Mothra including wearing bullets and two King Ghidra, which are said to cost two ordinary monsters, are newly molded, and since the dinosaur and the primitive Mothra were manufactured, a miniature building was built. There was no budget to build, and in the urban destruction scene, digital composition was mainly used to combine the scene with the image of blasting plasterboard  .

Shinichi Wakasa supervised all the modeling. The adult mothra is a mothra with a stuffed toy texture that continued after " Godzilla vs Mothra " , as Wakasa himself went overseas to order the boa that was also used in Jim Henson 's workshop to improve the lack of biological feeling until then. I got out of it. Later in " Godzilla x Mothra x Mechagodzilla Tokyo SOS ", the mothra is almost the same as the material and molding of this work.

Although the appearance time is not long, Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops were operated as puppets  (other dinosaurs are all CG).

The air battle with King Ghidorah is one of the highlights. In the Godzilla series, it was always a larva to fight King Ghidorah, so in this work it became the rival of the sky following Radon.

A photo of Tomoyuki Tanaka is displayed in the play as a portrait of the protagonist's grandfather.

## DVD

**Toho** DVD (2006, 2011, 2013, 2015)

* Region: 2
* Discs: 1
* Audio: Japanese
* Subtitles: Japanese
* Special Features: Audio commentary by special effects director Kenji Suzuki, message from producer Shogo Tomiyama, behind-the-scenes tokusatsu footage, featurette with special effects cinematographer Keiichi Sakurai, trailers and TV spots, featurette focusing on Keizo Murase, Shinichi Wakasa, and Masaaki Tezuka

**Toho** Blu-ray (2017)

* Region: A/1
* Discs: 3
* Audio: Japanese
* Subtitles: Japanese
* Special Features: Audio commentary by special effects director Kenji Suzuki, message from producer Shogo Tomiyama, behind-the-scenes tokusatsu footage, featurette with special effects cinematographer Keiichi Sakurai, trailers and TV spots, image gallery, featurette focusing on Keizo Murase, Shinichi Wakasa, and Masaaki Tezuka
* Notes: Packaged with Rebirth of Mothra and Rebirth of Mothra II.