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Godzilla 1985 (1985)

August 23, 1985 (US) Action, Science Fiction, Thriller • 87m

Overview

Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re-titled "Godzilla 1985". Adding in new footage of Raymond Burr, this 16th Godzilla film ignores all previous sequels and serves as a direct follow-up to the 1956 "Godzilla King of the Monsters", which also featured scenes with Burr edited into 1954's "Godzilla". This film restores the darker tone of the original, as we witness the nuclear destruction of giant lizard terrorizing Japan.

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Top Billed Cast

Raymond Burr
Raymond Burr

Steven Martin

Keiju Kobayashi
Keiju Kobayashi

Prime Minister Mitamura

Shin Takuma
Shin Takuma

Hiroshi "Ken" Okumura

James Scott Hess
James Scott Hess

Colonel Raschen

Travis Swords
Travis Swords

Major McDonough

Eitarō Ozawa
Eitarō Ozawa

Finance Minister Kanzaki

Taketoshi Naitō
Taketoshi Naitō

Takegami, Chief Cabinet Secretary

Nobuo Kaneko
Nobuo Kaneko

Home Affairs Minister Isomura

Mizuho Suzuki
Mizuho Suzuki

Foreign Minister Emori

Takeshi Katō
Takeshi Katō

Internal Trade and Industry Minister Kasaoka

Sho Hashimoto
Sho Hashimoto

Captain of Super X

Junkichi Orimoto
Junkichi Orimoto

Director-General of the Defense Agency

Yoshibumi Tajima
Yoshibumi Tajima

Environmental Director General Hidaka

Hiroshi Koizumi
Hiroshi Koizumi

Geologist Minami

Kunio Murai
Kunio Murai

Secretary Henmi

Shigeo Katō
Shigeo Katō

Ship Captain

Chinpei Hayashiya
Chinpei Hayashiya

Cameraman Kamijo (as Shinpei Hayashiya)

Koji Ishizaka
Koji Ishizaka

Member of the Staff of a Nuclear Power Plant

Yōsuke Natsuki
Yōsuke Natsuki

Biologist Hayashida

Kenpachirō Satsuma
Kenpachirō Satsuma

Godzilla (uncredited)

Haruo Nakajima
Haruo Nakajima

Original Godzilla (archive footage) (uncredited)

Akira Toriyama
Akira Toriyama

Man fleeing from Godzilla (uncredited)

Tony Plana
Tony Plana

Goro Maki (voice) (uncredited)

Lara Cody
Lara Cody

Naoko Okumura / Tohto Times walla / Pentagon personnel (voice) (uncredited)

Andy Goldberg
Andy Goldberg

Hiroshi "Ken" Okumura (voice) (uncredited)

Gregory Snegoff
Gregory Snegoff

Secretary Takegami / Kitagawa / newscaster (voice) (uncredited)

Paul Wilson
Paul Wilson

Biologist Hayashida / Kakurai (voice) (uncredited)

Crew
Akio Tashiro
Akio Tashiro

Set Decoration

Kazutami Hara
Kazutami Hara

Director of Photography

Akira Sakuragi
Akira Sakuragi

Art Direction

Kenji Kawasaki
Kenji Kawasaki

Costume Design

Fumio Tanaka
Fumio Tanaka

Associate Producer

Tomoyuki Tanaka
Tomoyuki Tanaka

Executive Producer

Teruyoshi Nakano
Teruyoshi Nakano

Special Effects

Akira Sakuragi
Akira Sakuragi

Production Design

Lisa Tomei
Lisa Tomei

Screenplay

Reijirō Koroku
Reijirō Koroku

Original Music Composer

Lee Berger
Lee Berger

Assistant Director

Kunio Miyoshi
Kunio Miyoshi

First Assistant Director

Andrea Barshov Stern
Andrea Barshov Stern

Associate Producer

Kensho Yamashita
Kensho Yamashita

Assistant Director

Shinji Kojima
Shinji Kojima

Lighting Technician

Steven Dubin
Steven Dubin

Director of Photography

Takao Okawara
Takao Okawara

First Assistant Director

Mitsuo Miyakawa
Mitsuo Miyakawa

Special Effects

Hideo Aoki
Hideo Aoki

Military Consultant

Koji Matsumoto
Koji Matsumoto

Special Effects

Tadaaki Watanabe
Tadaaki Watanabe

Pyrotechnician

Yoshikazu Manoda
Yoshikazu Manoda

Visual Effects Camera

Eiichi Asada
Eiichi Asada

Special Effects

Shinji Higuchi
Shinji Higuchi

Special Effects

Nobuyuki Tanaka
Nobuyuki Tanaka

Sound Recordist

Yoshikazu Manoda
Yoshikazu Manoda

Visual Effects

Takeshi Yamamoto
Takeshi Yamamoto

VFX Director of Photography

Takeaki Tsukada
Takeaki Tsukada

Visual Effects Camera

Kohhei Mikami
Kohhei Mikami

VFX Lighting Artist

Kohhei Mikami
Kohhei Mikami

Special Effects

Takeaki Tsukada
Takeaki Tsukada

Visual Effects

Yoshio Ishii
Yoshio Ishii

Visual Effects Camera

Takahide Morichi
Takahide Morichi

Production Manager

Teruyoshi Nakano
Teruyoshi Nakano

Visual Effects Director

Masayuki Ikeda
Masayuki Ikeda

Visual Effects Production Manager

Takeshi Miyanishi
Takeshi Miyanishi

Visual Effects Camera

Veronica Flynn
Veronica Flynn

Script Supervisor

Takashi Nakao
Takashi Nakao

Still Photographer

Yoshio Ishii
Yoshio Ishii

Visual Effects

Kiyotaka Matsumoto
Kiyotaka Matsumoto

Special Effects

Mamoru Kume
Mamoru Kume

Pyrotechnician

Teruyoshi Nakano
Teruyoshi Nakano

Visual Effects

Mark Sheret
Mark Sheret

Sound Mixer

Bret Mixon
Bret Mixon

Visual Effects

Toshimitsu Oneda
Toshimitsu Oneda

VFX Director of Photography

Samuel Buddy Fries
Samuel Buddy Fries

Assistant Camera

James Melkonian
James Melkonian

Post Production Coordinator

Diana Jackson
Diana Jackson

Negative Cutter

Kathryn Sparks
Kathryn Sparks

Wardrobe Assistant

John Wilkinson
John Wilkinson

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Bob Biggart
Bob Biggart

Supervising Sound Editor

Mehran Salamati
Mehran Salamati

Assistant Editor

Lee Chaloukian
Lee Chaloukian

Sound Director

Lisa M. Dannenbaum
Lisa M. Dannenbaum

Production Assistant

Kevin Sewelson
Kevin Sewelson

Assistant Editor

Gregg Lacy
Gregg Lacy

Assistant Art Director

Ernest Farino
Ernest Farino

Main Title Designer

Ann Marie Trulove
Ann Marie Trulove

Production Secretary

Joseph D. Citarella
Joseph D. Citarella

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Ernest Farino
Ernest Farino

Visual Effects

Pam Moffat
Pam Moffat

Set Decoration

Christopher Ward Trott
Christopher Ward Trott

Production Assistant

Charles Grenzbach
Charles Grenzbach

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Mikio Mori
Mikio Mori

Dolby Consultant

Yutaka Tsuchiya
Yutaka Tsuchiya

Visual Effects

Fusako Takahashi
Fusako Takahashi

Negative Cutter

Yoshinori Ishizuki
Yoshinori Ishizuki

Still Photographer

Paul S. Isiki
Paul S. Isiki

Best Boy Grip

Noboru Ikeda
Noboru Ikeda

Assistant Sound Engineer

Fumiko Umezawa
Fumiko Umezawa

Makeup Artist

Hitoshi Hoshino
Hitoshi Hoshino

Second Assistant Director

Mutsumi Toyoshima
Mutsumi Toyoshima

Production Design

Yasuyuki Inoue
Yasuyuki Inoue

Production Design

Yoshiki Kasahara
Yoshiki Kasahara

Construction Coordinator

Akira Oba
Akira Oba

Lighting Technician

Tomoki Kobayashi
Tomoki Kobayashi

Costume Design

Tomoki Kobayashi
Tomoki Kobayashi

Assistant Costume Designer

Straw Weisman
Straw Weisman

Creative Consultant

Raymond Burr
Raymond Burr

Additional Dialogue



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Status

Released

Original Language

JA

Budget

$200,000

Revenue

$4,116,395

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