Mothra 2 Submarine Great Battle

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 Running time
98 minutes (Worldwide)

Mothra 2: Submarine Great Battle (also known as Mothra 2: The Battle Under the Deep Sea) is a 1997 toho kaiju film, Directed by Kunio Miyoshi it is the second Mothra film in the 1990's Mothra film Series.

## Plot

after the avents of the PREVIOUS mothra film, a bagan-like monster appears in the coast of japan in Okinawa

terrorizing a city mothra leo (Form aqua mothra) battles the monster called Dagala.

## Cast

* Sayaka Yamaguchi   as   Lora
* Megumi Kobayashi   as   Moll
* Aki Hano   as   Belvera
* Hikari Mitsushima   as   Shiori Uranai
* Masaki Otake   as   Kyohei Toguchi
* Shimada Masanao   as   Yoji Miyagi
* Nonami Maho   as   Princess Yuna
* Atsushi Okuno   as   Mikio Otani
* Hajime Okayama   as   Junichi Nagase
* Misako Konno   as   Toshiko Uranai
* Fumie Hosokawa   as   Akiko Kimura
* Kazushi Nemoto   as   Masahiro Noguchi
* Kentaro Sakai   as   Police Officer

## Staff

* Planning/draft: Tomoyuki Tanaka
* Production: Shogo Toyama
* Producer: Hiroaki Kitayama
* Screenplay: Masumi Suetani
* Music: Toshiyuki Watanabe
* Orchestration: Sawada Kan
* Photo: Yoshinori Sekiguchi
* Special skill photography: Hideyuki Yamaguchi
* Art: Tsuyoshi Shimizu
* Recording: Noboru Ikeda
* Lighting: Akio Osawa
* Special skill lighting: Kaoru Saito
* Performance: Satoshi Narumi
* Editing: Miho Yoneda
* Chief Assistant: Masaaki Tezuka
* Producer: Koji Maeda
* Associate Producer: Ritsuko Suzuki
* Special machinery: Isamu Miwano , Mitsuo Miyagawa
* Music Producer: Kyoko Kitahara
* Music mixer: Eihiko Ohno
* Sound effects: Kenji Shibasaki , Naoki Mitani ( ARCA booth )
* Mole, Lora, Berbera, Yuna Costume Design: Tomoko Motoya
* Steel: Katsuhiko Kudo
* Recording Studio: Toho Sound Studio
* Original soundtrack: Polygram
* Music production: Toho Music
* Costume: Toho Costume
* Development: Tokyo Lab
* Studio: Toho Studio
* Production cooperation: Toho Visual Art
* Director: Kunio Miyoshi

### Special technology

* Special skill director: Koichi Kawakita
* Special skill photography: Kenichi Eguchi , Toshimitsu Oneda
* Specialty art: Tetsuzo Osawa
* Special skill lighting: Satoshi Chotani
* Operation: Moriaki Uematsu
* Special effect: Tadaaki Watanabe
* Molding: Tomomi Kobayashi , Shinichi Wakasa
* Special edit: Yasuo Sato , Hideki Toshimitsu
* Special Assistance Director: Kenji Suzuki
* Producer: Taro Kojima
* Steel: Takashi Nakao
* Design Works: Min Yoshida , Hideo Okamoto , Shinji Nishikawa
* Dagala : Mizuho Yoshida

### Special visual effects

* Producers: Hiroshi Onodera , Tetsuo Oya , Toshihiro Ogawa
* CG Producer: Noriaki Hojo , Harada MutsuHiroshi , Shioya SatoshiTomo
* Digital Superpizer: Shigeharu Maehara , Yoshihito Kinoshita , Kazuhisa Yoshizawa , Akira Ichino , Katsuhiko Morisawa , Nobuaki Sugiki

### Cooperation

* Okinawa Prefecture
* Ishigaki
* Taketomi Town
* Shimoda Prince Hotel

## Titles

* Mothra 2: The Great Undersea Battle (Literal Japanese Title)
* Mothra 2: Submarine Great Battle (Original Japanese Title)
* Mothra: The Sunken Kingdom (Mothra: Das versunkene Königreich; Germany)
* Rebirth of Mothra 2 (Worldwide)

## U.S. release

Rebirth of Mothra II was dubbed into English by Omni Productions of Hong Kong in late 1997. In the U.S., Columbia TriStar Home Video released this English version of the film on VHS and DVD in 2000, with the DVD packaging the film with Rebirth of Mothra. It made its cable TV premiere on the Sci-Fi Channel on May 31, 2003, the same day as the other two films in the trilogy. All three films were included in a 2014 Sony Blu-ray set, which finally made the Japanese language track available in the U.S.

## DVD

**Tristar** DVD (2000)

* Region: 1
* Discs: 1
* Audio: English (2.0 Mono)
* Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
* Special Features: None
* Notes: Packaged with *Rebirth of Mothra*.

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

* Region: 2
* Discs: 1
* Audio: Japanese
* Subtitles: Japanese
* Special Features: Audio commentary by Hikari Mitsushima, trailers and DVD spots, message from special effects director Koichi Kawakita, behind-the-scenes tokusatsu featurette, Hikari Mitsushima interview, booklet

**Toho** Blu-ray (2017)

* Region: A/1
* Discs: 3
* Audio: Japanese
* Subtitles: Japanese
* Special Features: Audio commentary by Hikari Mitsushima, trailers and DVD spots, message from special effects director Koichi Kawakita, behind-the-scenes tokusatsu featurette, Hikari Mitsushima interview, booklet, image gallery
* Notes: Packaged with Rebirth of Mothra and Rebirth of Mothra III.