Heisei-Era Godzilla
5 Episodes
Following a nine-year absence from the screen, the King of the Monsters roared back with a vengeance in 1984 with THE RETURN OF GODZILLA, inaugurating a new era in the romping reptile’s mythology. The ferociously entertaining kaiju spectaculars of the 1980s and ’90s—which brought back familiar favorites like Mothra and King Ghidorah and introduced a new adversary in the genetically engineered mutant Biollante—reestablished Godzilla as a fearsome force (after previous Showa-era films that had recast himself as a benevolent protector), while taking the series’s political commentary and vaunted special effects in bold new directions.
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01:02Episode 1Heisei-Era Godzilla Teaser
Episode 1
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1:44:57Episode 2Godzilla vs. Biollante
Episode 2
Directed by Kazuki Omori • 1989 • Japan
Starring Kunihiko Mitamura, Yoshiko Tanaka, Masanobu TakashimaDiving into delirious realms of imagination, this second film of the Godzilla fran...
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1:42:50Episode 3Godzilla vs. Mothra
Episode 3
Directed by Takao Okawara • 1992 • Japan Starring Tetsuya Bessho, Satomi Kobayashi, Takehiro Murata
Updating the 1964 kaiju classic MOTHRA VS. GODZILLA for the Heisei era, this qu...
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1:43:12Episode 4Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
Episode 4
Directed by Kazuki Omori • 1991 • Japan Starring Katsuhiko Sasaki, Kosuke Toyohara, Anna Nakagawa
The eighteenth film in the Godzilla franchise puts a time-traveling twist on the The Kin...
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1:43:47Episode 5The Return of Godzilla
Episode 5
Directed by Koji Hashimoto • 1984 • Japan Starring Ken Tanaka, Yasuko Sawaguchi, Shin Takuma
Thirty years after the original Godzilla and nine years after the final Showa-era film, the Kin...