Monday, June 6, 2016

THE GODZILLA FILES

 
Hey everyone! It's time to add a new segment to the blog called, The Godzilla Files! I've been wanting to attempt to run through all of the Godzilla films, from the original black and white masterpiece all the way to the newest entries of the series, and seeing that I've already tackled a number of these cult classic wonders, I've decided to just keep this Kaiju train rolling on and review every single one of these fantastically outrageous films. So keep a look out for new Godzilla reviews in the future and enjoy the insanity of it all! Welcome to The Godzilla Files!

ALTERNATE TITLES: Godzilla, King of the Monsters
DIRECTOR: Ishiro Honda
STARRING: Akira Takarada, Momoko Kochi, Akihiko Hirata, Takashi Shimura

ALTERNATE TITLES: Gigantis, The Fire Monster
DIRECTOR: Motoyoshi Oda
STARRING: Hiroshi Koizumi, Setsuko Wakayama, Takashi Shimura



DIRECTOR: Motoyoshi Oda
STARRING: Tadao Takashima, Kenji Sahara, Yu Fujiki, Mie Hama, Ichiro Arishima

 

ALTERNATE TITLES: Godzilla vs. The Thing
DIRECTOR: Ishiro Honda
STARRING: Akira Takarada, Yuriko Hoshi, Hiroshi Koizumi, Kenji Sahara

 

ALTERNATE TITLES: Ghidrah, The Three-Headed Monster
DIRECTOR: Ishiro Honda
STARRING: Yosuke Natsuki, Yuriko Hoshi, Hiroshi Koizumi, Akiko Wakabayashi

 

ALTERNATE TITLES: Monster Zero, Godzilla vs. Monster Zero
DIRECTOR: Ishiro Honda
STARRING: Akira Takarada, Nick Adams, Kumi Mizuno, Jun Tazaki

 

ALTERNATE TITLES: Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
DIRECTOR: Jun Fukuda
STARRING: Akira Takarada, Kumi Mizuno, Chotaro Togin, Hideo Sunazuka

 

#08 - Son of Godzilla (1967)
DIRECTOR: Jun Fukuda
STARRING: Tadao Takashima, Akira Kubo, Bibari Maeda, Akihiko Hirata

 

#09 - Destroy All Monsters (1968)
DIRECTOR: Ishiro Honda
STARRING: Akira Kubo, Jun Tazaki, Yukiko Kobayashi

 

#10 - All Monsters Attack (1969)
ALTERNATE TITLES: Godzilla's Revenge
DIRECTOR: Ishiro Honda
STARRING: Tomonori Yazaki, Kenji Sahara, Hidemi Ito, Eisei Amamoto

 

#11 - Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)
ALTERNATE TITLES: Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster
DIRECTOR: Yoshimitsu Banno
STARRING: Akira Yamauchi, Toshie Kimura, Hiroyuki Kawase, Keiko Mari

 

#12 - Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972)
ALTERNATE TITLES: Godzilla on Monster Island
DIRECTOR: Jun Fukuda
STARRING: Hiroshi Ishikawa, Tomoko Umeda, Yuriko Hishimi

 

#13 - Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973)
DIRECTOR: Jun Fukuda
STARRING: Katsuhiko Sasaki, Hiroyuki Kawase, Yutaka Hayashi

 

#14 - Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974)
ALTERNATE TITLES: Godzilla vs. The Bionic Monster
DIRECTOR: Jun Fukuda
STARRING: Masaaki Daimon, Kazuya Aoyama, Akihiko Hirata

 

#15 - Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)
ALTERNATE TITLES: The Terror of Godzilla
DIRECTOR: Ishiro Honda
STARRING: Katsuhiko Sasaki, Tomoko Ai, Akihiko Hirata

 

#16 - The Return of Godzilla (1984)
ALTERNATE TITLES: Godzilla 1985
DIRECTOR: Koji Hashimoto
STARRING: Keiju Kobayashi, Ken Tankaka, Yasuko Sawaguchi



#17 - Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989)
DIRECTOR: Kazuki Omori
STARRING: Kunihiko Mitamura, Yoshiko Tanaka, Masanobu Takashima

 

#18 - Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991)
DIRECTOR: Kazuki Omori
STARRING: Kosuke Toyohara, Anna Nakagawa, Megumi Odaka

 

#19 - Godzilla vs Mothra (1992)
ALTERNATE TITLES: Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle For Earth
DIRECTOR: Takao Okawara
STARRING: Tetsuya Bessho, Satomi Kobayashi, Takehiro Murata

 

#20 - Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993)
ALTERNATE TITLES: Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
DIRECTOR: Takao Okawara
STARRING: Masahiro Takashima, Ryoko Sano, Megumi Odaka

 

#21 - Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla (1994)
DIRECTOR: Kensho Yamashita
STARRING: Megumi Odaka, Jun Hashizume, Zenkichi Yoneyama

 

#22 - Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995)
DIRECTOR: Takao Okawara
STARRING: Takuro Tatsumi, Yoko Ishino, Yasufumi Hayashi, Megumi Odaka

 

#23 - Godzilla (1998)
DIRECTOR: Roland Emmerich
STARRING: Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno, Maria Pitillo, Hank Azaria

 

#24 - Godzilla 2000: Millennium (1999)
ALTERNATE TITLES: Godzilla 2000
DIRECTOR: Takao Okawara
STARRING: Takehiro Murata, Hiroshi Abe, Naomi Nishida, Mayu Suzuki



#25 - Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000)
ALTERNATE TITLES: Godzilla X Megaguirus
DIRECTOR: Masaaki Tezuka
STARRING: Misato Tanaka, Shosuke Tanihara, Yuriko Hoshi, Masatoh Eve

 

#26 - Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001)
DIRECTOR: Shusuke Kaneko
STARRING: Chiharu Niiyama, Ryudo Uzaki, Masahiro Kobayashi

 

#27 - Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002)
ALTERNATE TITLES: Godzilla X Mechagodzilla
DIRECTOR: Masaaki Tezuka
STARRING: Yumiko Shaku, Shin Takuma, Kou Takasugi, Yuusuke Tomoi

 

#28 - Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (2003)
ALTERNATE TITLES: Godzilla X Mothra X Mechagodzilla: Tokyo SOS
DIRECTOR: Masaaki Tezuka
STARRING: Noboru Kaneko, Miho Yoshioka, Mitsuki Koga, Hiroshi Koizumi

 

#29 - Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)
DIRECTOR: Ryuhei Kitamura
STARRING: Masahiro Matsuoka, Rei Kikukawa, Don Frye, Kane Kosugi

 

#30 - Godzilla (2014)
DIRECTOR: Gareth Edwards
STARRING: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen, Bryan Cranston

 

#31 - Godzilla Resurgence (2016)
DIRECTOR: Hideaki Anno, Shinji Higuchi
STARRING: Hiroki Hasegawa, Yutaka Takenouchi, Satomi Ishihara