The Return of Godzilla

Synopsis

After a fishing boat is attacked, the sole surviving crew member realizes it is none other than a resurrected Godzilla. However, efforts to bring the story to light are suppressed by the Japanese government amid growing political tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union, who are both willing to bomb Japan to stop the monster.

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Cast

Keiju Kobayashi

Prime Minister Seiki Mitamura

Ken Tanaka

Goro Maki

Yasuko Sawaguchi

Naoko Okumura

Shin Takuma

Hiroshi Okumura

Yōsuke Natsuki

Professor Makoto Hayashida

Eitarō Ozawa

Minister of Finance Kanzaki

Taketoshi Naitō

Chief Cabinet Secretary Takegami

Nobuo Kaneko

Home Affairs Minister Isomura

Mizuho Suzuki

Foreign Minister Emori

Junkichi Orimoto

Director-General of the Defense Agency

Hiroshi Koizumi

Professor Minami

Kunio Murai

Secretary Henmi

Kei Satō

Chief Editor Gondo

Shigeo Katō

Captain of the Yahata Maru

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Walter Nichols

Rosenburg, Special Envoy for the President of the United States

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Alexander Kilis

Chefsky, Special Envoy for the Soviet Union

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Takenori Emoto

Desk Editor Kitagawa

Koji Ishizaka

Power plant guard

Tetsuya Takeda

Homeless man

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Joe Raznack

Kramer, American Ambassador (uncredited)

Crew

Art

• Akira Sakuragi Production Design
• Yasuyuki Inoue Production Design
• Akio Tashiro Set Decoration
• Yoshiki Kasahara Construction Coordinator
• Mutsumi Toyoshima Production Design

Camera

• Kazutami Hara Director of Photography
• Takashi Nakao Still Photographer
• Yoshinori Ishizuki Still Photographer
• Shunji Yokota Grip

Costume & Make-Up

• Nobuyuki Yasumaru Prosthetics
• Kenji Kawasaki Costume Design
• Fumiko Umezawa Makeup Artist
• Nobuyuki Yasumaru Costume Design
• Tomoki Kobayashi Costume Design
• Tomoki Kobayashi Assistant Costume Designer

Crew

• Teruyoshi Nakano Special Effects
• Eiichi Asada Special Effects
• Kiyotaka Matsumoto Special Effects
• Shinji Higuchi Special Effects
• Kohhei Mikami Special Effects
• Tadaaki Watanabe Pyrotechnician
• Mamoru Kume Pyrotechnician
• Koji Matsumoto Special Effects
• Mitsuo Miyakawa Special Effects
• Hideo Aoki Military Consultant
• Soichiro Tahara Thanks

Directing

• Koji Hashimoto Director
• Takao Okawara First Assistant Director
• Kensho Yamashita Assistant Director
• Kunio Miyoshi First Assistant Director
• Hitoshi Hoshino Second Assistant Director
• Hiroko Kajiyama Continuity

Editing

• Yoshitami Kuroiwa Editor
• Fusako Takahashi Negative Cutter

Lighting

• Shinji Kojima Lighting Technician
• Hideo Inagaki Electrician
• Akira Oba Lighting Technician

Production

• Fumio Tanaka Associate Producer
• Takahide Morichi Production Manager
• Tadao Tanaka Casting
• Tomoyuki Tanaka Executive Producer
• Norio Hayashi Producer
• Kiyomi Kanazawa Producer

Sound

• Reijirō Koroku Original Music Composer
• Nobuyuki Tanaka Sound Recordist
• Noboru Ikeda Assistant Sound Engineer
• Mikio Mori Dolby Consultant

Visual Effects

• Toshimitsu Oneda VFX Director of Photography
• Teruyoshi Nakano Visual Effects Director
• Teruyoshi Nakano Visual Effects
• Masayuki Ikeda Visual Effects Production Manager
• Kohhei Mikami VFX Lighting Artist
• Takeaki Tsukada Visual Effects Camera
• Takeaki Tsukada Visual Effects
• Yoshio Ishii Visual Effects Camera
• Yoshio Ishii Visual Effects
• Takeshi Miyanishi Visual Effects Camera
• Takeshi Miyanishi Visual Effects
• Yoshikazu Manoda Visual Effects Camera

Writing

• Tomoyuki Tanaka Story
• Hideichi Nagahara Screenplay

Photos