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Japan (日本,   Nihon) is a country in the far east of Asia. An archipelago made up of over 6,500 islands, Japan's capital city is Tokyo. As a result of Japan being the 'home country' for Toho and countless other film studios, it is the birthplace of the kaiju genre of movies and popular kaiju such as Godzilla and Gamera. It is also home to tokusatsu heroes such as Ultraman.

History

Toho Films

Showa era Godzilla

Godzilla (1954)

Godzilla, a giant 50-meter kaiju disturbed by the radioactivity from an H-bomb test, attacks Japan and completely destroys the country's capital city of Tokyo, but is ultimately killed by Daisuke Serizawa's Oxygen Destroyer.

Godzilla Raids Again

A second Godzilla appears and fights another monster dubbed Anguirus in Osaka.

King Kong vs. Godzilla

Godzilla breaks free from his glacial prison and attacks Japan again. He battles the giant ape King Kong, but is defeated after an epic battle on the slopes of Mount Fuji.

Mothra vs. Godzilla

After a large typhoon hits Japan, both the egg of Mothra and Godzilla himself are washed ashore, forcing the adult Mothra to venture to Japan to protect her egg, where she fights Godzilla and dies. When the egg hatches, two Mothra larvae attack their mother's murderer, wrapping Godzilla in silk and sending him crashing into the ocean.

Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster

A new Rodan, Godzilla and a larval Mothra ally to drive off the space monster King Ghidorah.

Invasion of Astro-Monster

Godzilla and Rodan are sent to Planet X to help the Xiliens in driving off King Ghidorah. When his proves to be a ruse, as the three monsters are placed under the control of the Xilians and sent to attack the Earth, humanity rises to the occasion and fights back, destroying the aliens and freeing the monsters from their control. Godzilla and Rodan then drive Ghidorah back into space.

Ebirah, Horror of the Deep

Godzilla is discovered sleeping on Letchi Island, a small island in the South Pacific that is the base of operations for the Red Bamboo. Godzilla is awakened and fights the Red Bamboo's two monster guards: Ebirah, a giant lobster, and a Giant Condor, then escapes from the island seconds before it is engulfed in a nuclear explosion.

Son of Godzilla

Godzilla finds and defends a newborn kaiju named Minilla from the bug monsters Kamacuras and Kumonga.

Destroy All Monsters

All of Earth's monsters, who had previously lived peacefully on Monster Island, are taken control of by the Kilaak aliens and sent to attack Earth's major cities. When they are freed, they team up to fight and defeat the space monster King Ghidorah.

All Monsters Attack

A boy named Ichiro Miki dreams of traveling to Monster Island, where he meets Minilla, the son of Godzilla, and helps him to face his fears and stand up for himself against the monster bully Gabara.

Godzilla vs. Hedorah

Godzilla emerges to battle the smog monster Hedorah, a giant space creature that feeds on pollution.

Godzilla vs. Gigan

Aliens from Space Hunter Nebula M summon King Ghidorah and Gigan from space to destroy the Earth. Godzilla and Anguirus break out of Monster Island and venture to Japan and, after a long battle, drive the two space monsters away and save the Earth.

Godzilla vs. Megalon

Angered by nuclear tests that had destroyed Monster Island, an underwater civilization called Seatopia sends forth their monster god Megalon to destroy the surface world, and Gigan arrives on Earth to assist. Fortunately, Godzilla and a humanoid robot named Jet Jaguar arrive and team up to fight the two monsters, eventually driving Megalon back underground and forcing Gigan back into space.

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla

Aliens from the third planet of the Black Hole unleash Mechagodzilla, a robotic clone of Godzilla, upon Japan. Godzilla, along with an ancient guardian monster called King Caesar, fight and destroy Mechagodzilla and thwart the alien's invasion plans.

Terror of Mechagodzilla

The aliens from the Third Planet in the Black Hole return to conquer the Earth. Eith the deranged marine biologist Doctor Shinzo Mafune, they unleash a rebuilt Mechagodzilla and a dinosaur called Titanosaurus upon Japan. Thankfully, Godzilla arrives and does battle with the two monsters, eventually destroying Mechagodzilla for a second time and knocking Titanosaurus back into the sea.

Other Showa era Films

Half Human

Five university students go on a vacation in the Japanese Alps and two of them go missing. They return in the spring and discover a large primate in the mountains. It was later killed by falling into a sulfur pit.

Rodan

Two Pteranodon monsters, dubbed Rodans, emerge from a mine in Mount Aso. They devastate the city of Fukuoka, but a plan by the JSDF leads to both monsters perishing in the crater of Mount Aso.

The Mysterians

An alien race known as the Mysterians attack the Earth with the robot monsters Moguera and take the women of Earth, but are soon defeated.

Varan

A monster dubbed Varan is discovered and attacks Japan, but is slain.

The H-Man

The shape-shifting organism called the H-Man arrives in Japan and kills many people, but is eventually destroyed by fire.

The Secret of the Telegian

A soldier known as Corporal Sudo under the alias Goro Nakamoto, uses a device that can give its user the ability to teleport anywhere to kill his fellow soldiers who robbed and left him for dead during WWII. He was defeated later.

The Human Vapor

Mizuno, a librarian at a sanatorium, has been given the ability to become vapor after a scientist does an experiment on him. Mizuno uses this power to engage in criminal activities, robbing banks to give the money to his dancer, but is later cornered and killed in a fire.

Mothra

Two small fairies called the Shobijin are discovered on the irradiated Infant Island, and are stolen. Their monster goddess Mothra hatches and crawls to Tokyo to save them. The giant larva then builds a cocoon and transforms into it's adult form. It then finally locates her small priestesses and takes them back to Infant Island.

Matango

A ship becomes stranded on an island off the coast of Japan populated by "mushroom people" called Matango. Only a single survivor is recovered and brought back to Japan, where he tells the story of what happened to the others. It is eventually discovered that he too is slowly being assimilated by the Matango.

Atragon

The ancient civilization of Mu prepares to attack the modern world, along with their sea dragon guardian Manda. However, the advanced submarine, the Gotengo, intervenes and saves humanity.

Dogora

The carbon-consuming space monster Dogora appears over Japan and is defeated.

The War of the Gargantuas

Two giant, humanoid monsters dubbed Sanda and Gaira emerge. Believed to have been created from the cells of Frankenstein's Monster, the two Gargantuas fight in Tokyo, but are eventually killed in a volcanic eruption.

King Kong Escapes

On Mondo Island, a giant ape called King Kong is discovered, along with a large assortment of other creatures, such as Gorosaurus and a Giant Sea Serpent. An evil scientist named Dr. Who invents a robotic clone of Kong called Mechani-Kong. The two monsters battle in Tokyo and King Kong emerges victorious. Kong then kills the robot's inventor and returns home.

Space Amoeba

The Space Amoeba mutates and possesses a cuttlefish, creating Gezora, two crabs, called Ganimes, and a turtle, dubbed Kamoebas, but is killed along with his creations.

Heisei era Godzilla

The Return of Godzilla

A second Godzilla emerges. The 80 meter monster raids Tokyo, and the JSDF launches the Super X, an aerial battle mech, to fight the monster, but it is destroyed. Godzilla is then lured to the rim of the volcanic Mt. Mihara, where an eruption is triggered that seals the creature within the volcano.

Godzilla vs. Biollante

Godzilla is released from his imprisonment inside the crater of Mount Mihara by terrorists working for Bio-Major. A creature created from the combination of the DNA of Godzilla, a rose, and a scientist's deceased daughter, dubbed Biollante, attracts the King of the Monsters toward Lake Ashi. Godzilla defeats Biollante at Lake Ashi before assaulting Osaka, where he destroys the JSDF's Super X2 but is successfully injected with the Anti-Nuclear Energy Bacteria. Godzilla engages Biollante again in a final confrontation at Wakasa Bay, where he is weakened by the effects of the ANEB and stumbles into the sea, with both monsters then go their separate ways.

Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah

Visitors from the 23rd century (the year 2204), dubbed the Futurians, arrive in Japan to deliver a warning: very soon, Godzilla will recover from his ANEB infection and return to Japan, and will completely destroy the country. The Futurians propose a radical plan: travel back in time to the year 1944 and teleport a dinosaur (dubbed the Godzillasaurus) from Lagos Island, a small island that would, ten years later, be hit with the radioactivity from the Castle Bravo H-bomb test which would mutate the dinosaur into Godzilla. The time travelers have an ulterior motive, and release three genetically engineered animals called Dorats. Ten years later, the H-bomb is tested, mutating the Dorats and fusing them into one monster: King Ghidorah.

However, the Futurians' actions had not actually erased Godzilla from history, but led to his creation in the first place. The Godzillasaurus was mutated by a nuclear submarine crash in the Bering Sea and became Godzilla. The Japanese government, mistakenly believing that the un-mutated Godzillasaurus is still dormant in the Bering Sea, sends a nuclear submarine in the hope of recreating Godzilla. Godzilla destroys the submarine and absorbs its energy, burning off his ANEB infection and growing him from 80 to 100 meters in height. He now emerges from the sea and makes his way towards King Ghidorah. The two monsters fight, and Godzilla blows off King Ghidorah's middle head and blasts holes in his wings, causing him to fall into the sea. To stop Godzilla's rampage across Japan, Emmy Kano, a rebel Futurian, proposes returning to 2204 and reviving King Ghidorah as a weapon to be used to fight Godzilla. She returns to 1992 as the pilot of the cyborg Mecha-King Ghidorah and engages Godzilla in Tokyo, finally lifting the King of the Monsters out of the city. Unfortunately, one final blast from Godzilla's atomic breath destroys Mecha-King Ghidorah and both monsters fall into the sea.

Godzilla vs. Mothra

A meteorite strikes the Earth, landing in the Ogasawara Trench and awakening Godzilla. The meteorite begins to set into motion a series of natural disasters around the planet, including typhoons, earthquakes, rising water levels, and landslides. Battra and Mothra team up to fight Godzilla and defeat him, but only after Battra dies.

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II

Two years after the wreckage of Mecha-King Ghidorah is recovered, the U.N.G.C.C complete work on Mechagodzilla, a giant robot built to fight the King of the Monsters. An egg recovered from Adonoa Island in the Berring Sea hatches into a Baby Godzilla. Godzilla, attracted by his newborn kin, soon arrives in Japan, and Mechagodzilla is launched to fight it. The two fight, but Mechagodzilla is soon defeated and and Godzilla continues on his way. The Baby is used as a decoy for Godzilla, but Rodan, now more powerful after transforming into Fire Rodan, steals back the canister holding the Baby. Mechagodzilla and Rodan battle before Godzilla finally arrives. After battling for some time, Mechagodzilla finally fires the G-Crusher into Godzilla and destroys his sacral brain, causing him to fall and die. Rodan then flies over to the fallen dinosaur and transfers his life energy into him. Godzilla rises and finally defeats Mechagodzilla. Godzilla then finally locates the Baby Godzilla, whom he adopts as his own and the two then swim out to sea.

Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla

The U.N.G.C.C. devises two alternate plans to defeat Godzilla: Project M, which involves the conversion of the wreckage of Mechagodzilla into a new anti-Godzilla mech dubbed MOGUERA (Mobile Operation Godzilla Universal Expert Robot Aero-Type), and Project T, which involves the controlling of Godzilla telepathically. At the same time, however, the Cosmos return to Earth to warn humanity that a space monster is on it's way. It seems that Godzilla's cells were carried into space either as a part of Biollante, or on Mothra, and those cells mutated into a monster dubbed SpaceGodzilla. After capturing BabyGodzilla, he flies to Fukuoka and erects a crystal fortress there. MOGUERA is sent to the city to engage SpaceGodzilla, and Godzilla soon arrives to do battle with his intergalactic clone as well. After a long battle, during which MOGUERA is destroyed, Godzilla finally kills SpaceGodzilla once and for all.

Godzilla vs. Destoroyah

In order to lure Godzilla to Japan to fight Destoroyah his adopted son, Godzilla Junior, is used as bait. In Tokyo, Junior engages Destoroyah in battle. Godzilla soon arrives, just in time to see Destoroyah evolve into his final form and lift Junior into the sky. The demon then drops the young monster from an extreme altitude, and watches as the creature hits the ground and apparently dies from the impact. Furious, Godzilla attacks Destoroyah with all he has, his temperature rising every second. Destoroyah eventually turns and retreats, but the JSDF shoots the creature down with low temperature lasers. Godzilla's temperature rises to 1200 degrees Celsius, and the beast melts down. Within seconds, the King of the Monsters is gone, and Tokyo is left in irradiated ruins. Suddenly, however, the radioactivity decreases and soon disapears. From out of the smoke and mist appears Junior, who has survived, absorbed the exess radiation, and inherited his father's crown as the new King of the Monsters.

Other Heisei era Films

Rebirth of Mothra

Desghidorah, an ancient creature that destroyed an ancient civilization millions of years earlier, is awoken by the evil Elias, Belvera. Her two sisters, Moll and Lora, call on the last remaining Mothra to fight the three-headed space monster. As she begins to loose the fight, her larval offspring hatches prematurely to assist her, and arives to fight Desghidorah. Although the tiny creature's mother is killed in the battle, the small larva, known as Leo, metamorphoses into it's imago form and defeats the demonic hydra once and for all.

Rebirth of Mothra 2

An ancient pollution eating monster named Dagahra emerges. Mothra Leo arives to do battle with the sea monster, but is defeated in the first conflict. Thankfully, Leo is empowered by an ancient treasure and transforms into Rainbow Mothra. In his new form, Leo transforms into Aqua Mothra and defeats Dagahra once and for all.

Other Millennium era Films

To be added.

Monsterverse

Godzilla (2014)

In 1999, 2 MUTO spores were found in a Philippines mine. The male MUTO would destroy the Janjira power plants in Japan. The male MUTO would release a electromagnetic pulse and feed on the reactors. The male MUTO would later enter a cocoon state.

Daiei Films

Other Heisei era Films

To be added.

Reiwa era Gamera

To be added.

Other Reiwa era Films

To be added.

Trivia

• Every Toho-produced Godzilla film has been set at least partially in Japan, with the exception of Son of Godzilla. Among the four American-made Godzilla films, however, only Godzilla (2014) has included scenes in Japan, none of them involving Godzilla himself.
• The Showa, Heisei, and Reiwa eras are named after Japan's political periods.

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