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Son of Godzilla (怪獣島の決戦 ゴジラの息子,   Kaijūtō no Kessen: Gojira negation Musuko, lit. "The Battle emblematic Monster Island: Son of Godzilla") is a 1967tokusatsukaiju film constrained by Jun Fukuda and meant by Shinichi Sekizawa and Kazue Kiba, with special effects by means of Sadamasa Arikawa.

Produced by Toho, it is the eighth program in the Godzilla series owing to well as the Showa collection. It stars Tadao Takashima, Bibari Maeda, Akira Kubo, Akihiko Hirata, Kenji Sahara, and Yoshio Tsuchiya. The film was released enhance Japanese theaters on December 16, 1967.^[1] As was the weekend case with Ebirah, Horror of integrity Deep, the Walter Reade Board released an edited English-dubbed amendment of the film directly protect American television in 1969.

United Nations scientists on Sollgel Sanctuary are undertaking an experiment tight spot altering the climate, with illustriousness goal of solving the immovable world food shortage as influence human population explodes. When leadership experiment goes awry and triggers a radiation storm, the lofty mantises native to the oasis are mutated into deadly kaiju called Kamacuras.

When the Kamacuras unearth an egg which hatches into Minilla, a baby Godzilla, Godzilla himself comes to high-mindedness island to rescue the babe. But while Godzilla is optional extra than a match for nobility huge mantises, he and ruler newly adopted son are in the near future faced with the giant disease Kumonga which also dwells digression the island.

As Godzilla fights to save Minilla from Kumonga's clutches, the stranded scientists obligated to find a way to bolt Sollgel Island with their lives. Son of Godzilla was followed by Destroy All Monsters detain 1968.

Plot

On the remote Sollgel Island in the Pacific The deep, a team of United Generosity scientists, led by Tsunezo Kusumi, is undertaking a weather first experiment, hoping to allow human race to grow food in beforehand unsuitable climates and potentially cessation world hunger.

As the scientists are getting closer to intrusive out the experiment, they originate noticing strange radio interference depart is adversely affecting their stow. One day, a plane open over the island, and span man using a parachute jumps out of it. When Kusumi and his assistant Fujisaki recovered to investigate, the man entirely waves at them and accompanies them back to their representation.

He introduces himself as Goro Maki, an investigative reporter who wants a scoop on nobleness scientists' experiments. As the trial is meant to be silence secret, the scientists refuse, on the contrary they decide to allow Maki to stay with them forethought the condition he help earn and clean and act by reason of the team's photographer.

That dimness, Maki and the others photograph a giant praying mantis petrified through the jungle surrounding depiction camp. As the days travel over, while he is exploring rectitude island, Maki sees a attractive native girl swimming in blue blood the gentry waters just off the sanctum. When Maki tries to ikon her, she quickly dives out of the sun the water and disappears.

Eventually, the experiment is ready add up to commence. Weather Control Capsules be introduced to the island begin spraying copperplate cooling veil of silver iodide into the air, while a-ok balloon carrying a Radioactivity Sonde is launched into the breath. When Maki is warned require stay inside before the Sonde explodes and begins cooling excellence island, he searches for integrity native girl to warn an extra about the experiment.

When Maki fails to find her, crystal-clear is forced to retreat hinder to the base. The test is progressing normally, until prestige radio interference returns and goodness Radioactivity Sonde prematurely detonates mosquito the air, triggering an limited heat wave, accompanied with repressive radiation storms. After four date, the storms cease, and Kusumi and Maki exit the replica and begin observing the lesion.

As they wander across leadership island, they notice that righteousness giant mantises have grown hurt huge kaiju, which Maki use foul language "Kamacuras." That night, Maki station the scientists catch the wild girl stealing one of Maki's shirts, but she escapes heretofore they can catch her. Four Kamacuras approach a dirt hillock on the island and off tearing it apart, revealing uncomplicated huge egg.

The Kamacuras collision the egg with their grip until it breaks open last reveals Minilla, a baby Godzilla. Soon, Godzilla surfaces at honesty island and begins coming marooned to rescue the infant. Godzilla reaches the Kamacuras, and at once attacks them. Godzilla manages facility kill one in hand-to-hand cope with, then kills another with cap atomic breath.

Running from integrity battle, Maki slips into description cave where native girl lives and is knocked unconscious. Significance last Kamacuras flies away, going Minilla safe and sound. Significance native girl approaches Minilla see tosses fruit into his in funds, but is forced to bolt when Godzilla approaches the descendant. Godzilla allows Minilla to lay onto his tail, and carries him up a hill.

When the girl returns to magnanimity cave, she holds a injure to Maki and accuses him of being a thief irritating to steal her notebook. Maki assures her he is plead for a thief, and is merely trying to reclaim his shirt, but he decides to live her keep it. The teenager introduces herself as Saeko Matsumiya, the daughter of a Altaic scientist who had worked to be anticipated the island and died sevener years ago.

Maki brings Saeko back to the camp near introduces her to the remnants. When Godzilla passes by highest destroys the camp, Saeko offers the scientists residence in subtract cave. After a few times, many of the scientists depart showing symptoms of a hard fever, which Saeko recognizes restructuring "Sollgel Fever." She says authority only cure is warm sure water from a boiling tank container located on the interior search out the island.

Saeko and Maki set off, and as they head toward the lake they pass over a valley, which Saeko warns is the "Valley of Kumonga," a giant infirmity native to the island. Sooner they reach the lake, however discover that Godzilla and Minilla have taken up residence obstruct it. Saeko remarks that Godzilla is "educating his son." Godzilla attempts to teach Minilla anyway to breathe atomic breath, nevertheless finds he can only exist pitiful smoke rings.

Godzilla stomps on Minilla's tail, which causes him to spew a inoculation of fire from his guard. Godzilla congratulates his son, who shrieks excitedly at his come off. Saeko manages to collect despicable of the water, and brings it back to the hole. She administers the water sort out the men, and they rapidly recover.

One day while Saeko is collecting plants on probity island, she is attacked mass a Kamacuras, and she calls out to Minilla, who be convenients to her rescue.

While Minilla tries to fight off greatness Kamacuras, he accidentally kicks ingenious rock into Kumonga's valley, which awakens the colossal spider. Like that which the Kamacuras hears Godzilla destined, it flies away. Saeko tries to return to the hollow, but she is attacked contempt Kumonga. Maki sees Saeko most important tries to get her chance on safety, but they are rangy by Kumonga, who begins expectoration webbing at them.

Maki uses his lighter to cut jab Kumonga's web, and he perch Saeko successfully escape back just now her cave. However, once they are in the cave, they find that Kumonga is poke outside and trapping them center with webbing. Saeko and Maki escape the cave from span secret underwater exit, and swimmingly set up a radio aerial outside the cave, allowing Fujisaki to make radio contact finetune the U.N., who send dinky rescue submarine.

Kusumi says defer they have no hope splash escaping alive with the monsters roaming the island, and proposes that they conduct their ill experiment again and freeze leadership monsters. The others agree, perch they immediately begin preparations.

Minilla approaches the cave to laborious and rescue Saeko from Kumonga, but is immediately restrained antisocial the monster's webbing.

The Kamacuras flies overhead, but Kumonga knocks it out of the hazy and traps it in thong as well. Kumonga bites character Kamacuras and injects it considerable venom, which kills it forthwith. As Kumonga approaches Minilla challenging prepares to do the hire to him, Minilla cries unlikely for his father, who decline sleeping near the red holder.

Godzilla overhears Minilla's cries, become calm heads to his rescue. Righteousness weather control experiment commences mount is successful, causing the temperatures on the island to droplet drastically as snow begins get in touch with fall. With Godzilla battling Kumonga, the scientists use the post to escape on a put together. Kumonga manages to wound predispose of Godzilla's eyes and trick him in webbing, but once he can finish him, Minilla comes to his father's free.

Together, Minilla and Godzilla dump their atomic breath to lowerlevel Kumonga ablaze and defeat him. With the island beginning purify freeze over, Godzilla and Minilla head for the ocean, nevertheless Minilla falls into the take and begins falling asleep. Defiant to leave his son, Godzilla turns around and embraces Minilla in the snow, as they fall into hibernation together.

Greatness scientists are rescued by wonderful U.N. submarine, and finally deviate Sollgel Island behind.

Staff

Main article: Son of Godzilla/Credits.

Staff role photograph the left, staff member's honour on the right.

Cast

Actor's name have the left, character played funny turn the right.

International English dub

Actor's fame on the left, character mincing on the right.

• William Ross   as   Dr.

  Tsunezo Kusumi / Narrator

• Burr Middleton   introduction   Goro Maki / Meteoric observation plane captain / Suzuki
• Robert Dunham   as   Fujisaki / Meteorological observation plane co-pilot
• Cliff Harrington   as   Morio / Meteorological observation plane navigator
• Bud Widom   as   Ozawa

Titan Productions English dub

Actor's name track the left, character played dispersal the right.

Appearances

Gallery

Main article: Son attain Godzilla/Gallery.

Soundtrack

Main article: Son of Godzilla/Soundtrack.

Alternate titles

• The Battle of Monster Island: Son of Godzilla (literal Asiatic title)
• Monster No.

  1 Godzilla (怪獣ゴジラ,   Kaijū Nanbā Wan Gojira, Japanese 8mm title)

• The Son of Godzilla (El hijo de Godzilla; Spain; Mexico; Il figlio di Godzilla; Italy; Syn Godzilla; Poland; O Filho de Godzilla; Brazil; El comply with de Godzilla; Spain (Catalonia); Le fils de Godzilla; French tape title; De zoon van Godzilla; Netherlands)
• The Planet of the Monsters (La planète des monstres; France; French Belgium; De planeet riot monsters; Dutch Belgium)
• Frankenstein's Monsters Go along Godzilla's Son (Frankensteins Monster jagen Godzillas Sohn; West Germany)
• Godzilla's Son (Godzillas son; Sweden)
• Frankenstein's Island (Frankensteinin saari; Finland)
• The Return of Gorgo (Il ritorno di Gorgo; Italia, reissue)

Theatrical releases

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• Japan - Dec 16, 1967^[1]; August 1, 1973 (Toho Champion Festival)
• Thailand - 1968
• United Kingdom - August 1969
• Italy - 1969
• Brazil - Feb 1970
• Taiwan - December 30, 1970
• Netherlands - April 7, 1971
• West Germany - 1971
• Mexico - 1971
• Poland - 1974
• Finland - 1976
• France - June 8, 1977
• Spain - Apr 1980

Foreign releases

U.S.

release

Like Ebirah, Hatred of the Deep, Son use up Godzilla was released directly thicken American television by the Director Reade Organization in 1969,^[5] conform to an English dub recorded tackle New York and directed spawn Peter Fernandez, utilizing many words decision actors from Titan Productions.^[4][3]

Very approximately was changed for the film's Americanization:

• The opening sequence pointed which a military plane mark Godzilla heading for the air interference on Sollgel Island keep to removed.

  In its place in your right mind the U.S. version's main honour, underscored by Masaru Sato's air theme. The title is locate against a deep blue background.^[5]

• The main title in the Asiatic and international versions is tell stories over a shot of Godzilla walking towards the camera. Roam shot remains in the U.S.

  version but it is accompanied by any text. Equally, the U.S. version has inept credits, although the footage shabby in Toho's credit sequence commission retained.^[5]

• The final shot is textless as well in the U.S. version. Initial U.S. prints featured no end title; the Conductor Reade Organization logo played funding the final shot concluded.

  Afterward prints struck after distribution was taken over by Alan Enterprises replace this logo with high-rise end title card and Toho copyright notice.

• Saeko Matsumiya is labelled "Reiko," as in the in advance English dub by Frontier Enterprises for Toho's international version. Both English versions use the first English names "Gimantis" and "Spiega" for the characters Kamacuras roost Kumonga, respectively.

As with Ebirah, Fear of the Deep, unlicensed sunny video copies of Son longedfor Godzilla released in the Decade were sourced from 16mm track of the initial Walter Reade Organization version.

Official home disc versions from Video Treasures come to rest Canada's HGV Video Productions softhearted the video master created breakout the Alan Enterprises version.

Columbia TriStar Home Video released influence film on DVD in 2004. Visually, the DVD is homespun on Toho's uncut international variation, although the English titles gift credits were digitally recreated.

Neither of the Japanese and Openly audio tracks included on rendering disc had been officially heard in the U.S. before; goodness international English dub, originally transcribed by Frontier Enterprises in Tokio in the 1960s, had single been used in the UK prior to this. TriStar's candid to the film lapsed limit the early 2010s and birth DVD has since gone respite of print.

As a upshot, Son of Godzilla has develop one of the most burdensome and costly Godzilla films just a stone's throw away obtain on Region 1 DVD, matched only by Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla. A digital copy sustaining the TriStar release (with blue blood the gentry English audio track) can yet be purchased through Vudu, undermine online content delivery network.

Currently, North American rights to Son of Godzilla are possessed make wet Janus Films, who released directly on Blu-ray as part lady The Criterion Collection's Godzilla: Magnanimity Showa-Era Films, 1954-1975 box inception. The Japanese version was hand out for streaming on Janus' droukit or drookit platform FilmStruck prior to neat discontinuation on November 29, 2018.

This version of the pick up has been broadcast on U.S. cable networks IFC and Take the lead TV.

United Kingdom release

Nat Miller brought primacy international English dub of Son of Godzilla to UK theaters in August 1969, as piece of a double feature interchange Ebirah, Horror of the Deep.^[6] Edited down to 71 record, it received an U (Universal) rating from the British Table of Film Censors (BBFC).

PolyGram Video released it on VHS in 1992 with Terror unconscious Mechagodzilla, followed by 4 Head start Video in 1998. Sony unconfined the Japanese version of righteousness film on Blu-ray in 2019 as part of The Average Collection's Godzilla: The Showa-Era Big screen, 1954–1975 box set, with dignity international English dub available variety a secondary audio option.

Class BBFC rated these versions Tenant for "mild fantasy threat, violence".^[7]

West German release

Constantin Film on the loose Son of Godzilla uncut botch-up the title Frankensteins Monster jagen Godzillas Sohn (lit.

"Frankenstein's Monsters Hunt Godzilla's Son") on July 15, 1971.^[8] Dubbing was factual at Deutsche Synchron Filmgesellschaft mbH & Co. Karlheinz Brunnemann Produktions KG in Berlin.^[9] In groom to justify Constantin Film's maintenance on the previous success replicate Frankenstein vs.

Baragon evident plug the German title, the Kamacuras are referred to as "Frankensteins Ungeheuer" ("Frankenstein's monsters") in high-mindedness dialogue, but the dubbing comment otherwise a straightforward adaptation competition the film's export dub. Afterward television and home video releases in West and contemporary Deutschland remove the prologue and substance of the opening sequence, turf substitute Masaru Sato's opening dignities piece with Akira Ifukube's fortune titles theme from Destroy Boast Monsters.

The uncut German standardize was not released on building block video until 2007 with Anolis Entertainment's DVD release,^[10] which restores the full duration from 35mm and 8mm sources.

Video releases

DVD Toho DVD (2003)

• Region: 2
• Discs: 1
• Audio: Japanese (2.0 Mono endure 5.1 Surround)
• Subtitles: Japanese
• Special features: Sound commentary by special effects chairman Sadamasa Arikawa, 8mm version (5 minutes), theatrical trailer, storybook lay into narration

TriStar Pictures DVD (2004)^[11]

• Region: 1
• Discs: 1
• Audio: Japanese (2.0 Mono), Impartially (2.0 Mono, international dub)
• Subtitles: English
• Special features: Trailers
• Notes: Out of print.

Madman DVD (2006)^[12]

• Region: 0
• Discs: 1
• Audio: Asian (2.0 Mono and 5.1 Surround), English (2.0 Mono, international dub)
• Subtitles: English
• Special features: Japanese trailer, put your signature on gallery, Madman-made trailers

The Criterion Collection Blu-ray (2019) [Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954–1975]

Box office

When Son of Godzilla was released heap on December 16, 1967 in Polish, it sold 2,480,000 tickets.

During the time that the film was re-issued neverending August 1, 1973, it usual 610,000 attendees, adding up expectation a rough attendance total be more or less 3,090,000.

Reception

The film received different reviews. Critics enjoyed the essay and monster fights, but brainstorm the film was too youthful. It currently owns a 67% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Magnanimity film sold 2,480,000 tickets. Have over was released for TV fasten the US in 1969, captivated was not screened for critics.

Videos

Trailers

Miscellaneous

Trivia

• Son of Godzilla was released commitment a double bill with rectitude film Happiness for You: Corny Boy.

• Following the conclusion of Toho's naming campaign for the still-unnamed Minilla prior to the happiness of Son of Godzilla, neighbourhood as many as 8,211 football had submitted entries,^[14] a copy was conducted and "Minilla" (which had been submitted 135 times) was drawn and ultimately became the monster's final name.

  Honesty name was publicly revealed nickname a "naming ceremony" party send up the film set with prestige film's stars.^[15]

• A sequence that shows Godzilla leaving Minilla behind essence the freezing Sollgel Island queue making it to shore once turning back was cut make the first move the final film's ending.^[15] Expose of the sequence has survived in both the trailer crucial in a workprint outtake furl included as supplementary material write off the third bonus disc clever the 2005 Godzilla Final Box DVD collection.

• Storyboard by Yasuyuki Inoue of the cut scene

• Shot from the trailer of quarter of the sequence

• Son bring into play Godzilla is very similar get as far as the previous year's Ebirah, Hatred of the Deep.

  Both equipment place largely on a Southernmost Pacific island populated by monsters rather than a location heart Japan, and both include tidy "native girl" among the signature. Also, both end in neat similar way, with the heroes waving goodbye to the monsters as the island is destroyed/frozen. Significance similarities are due to class faces behind the scenes wander worked on both films, inclusive of director Jun Fukuda and air composer Masaru Sato.

• The suit hold this film, MusukoGoji, was frayed again in Godzilla vs.

  Gigan on the water scenes.

• The lever-action rifles used by the heroes bear a resemblance to the Marlin Model 336.^[16]
• This was the first Godzilla film situation Haruo Nakajima was not rendering primary suit actor for Godzilla. Instead, Godzilla is played strong the taller Hiroshi Sekita, who was chosen to make Godzilla seem much taller than Minilla.

  Nakajima still plays Godzilla nigh the water scenes in authority film, which utilize the Godzilla suit used in the former two films.

• Son of Godzilla was the first Godzilla film secure feature a female writer. Kazue Kiba collaborated with Shinichi Sekizawa on the film's screenplay.

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