+ Terror of Mechagodzilla
Alternate Title:Mekagojira no Gyakushu
Director:Honda, Ishiro
Production Co:Toho Co. Ltd.
Running Time:Feature.   83 minutes
Sound:sound - monaural
Color:color
Country:Japan
Year:1975
Language:Japanese with English subtitles
Genre:Action Adventure, Sci Fi, Tragedy, Romance
Notes:In Godzilla’s last gasp of the Showa era, aliens retrieve Mechagodzilla’s remains and rebuild it with the aid of an unhinged biologist (a scenery-chewing Akihiko Hirata), in hopes of defeating Godzilla for possession of planet Earth. This film marked the return of director Ishiro Honda, who had retired years earlier, disheartened by the increasingly kid-friendly approach of the series. For this final entry, Honda steers the King of the Monsters back into grim territory, interweaving an alien-invasion plot with a tale of tragic romance.
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