Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
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Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (ゴジラ・モスラ・キングギドラ 大怪獣総攻撃 is a Gojira, Mosura, Kingu Gidora: Daikaijū Sōkōgeki)2001 Template:Daikaiju eiga produced by Toho Company Ltd., and the twenty-fifth installment in the Godzilla series, as well as the third in the Millennium series. The film was released to Japanese theaters on December 15, 2001.
Plot
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Staff
Staff role on the left, staff member's name on the right.
- Directed by Shusuke Kaneko
- Written by Keiichi Hasegawa, Shusuke Kaneko, Masahiro Yokotani
- Produced by Hideyuki Honma, Shogo Tomiyama
- Music by Kow Otani, Akira Ifukube
- Cinematography by Masahiro Kishimoto
- Edited by Isao Tomita
- Assistant directing by Toshifumi Shimizu, Nozomu Aida, Mokoto Kumazawa, Hideaki Murakami
- Special effects by Makoto Kamiya, Shinji Higuchi
- Assistant Director of Special Effects Kiyotaka Taguchi, Masaaki Tezuka
Cast
Actor's name on the left, character played on the right.
- Chiharu Niiyama as Yuri Tachibana
- Ryudo Uzaki as Taizo Tachibana
- Masahiro Kobayashi as Teruaki Takeda
- Shiro Sano as Haruki Kadokura
- Takashi Nishina as AD Aki Maruo
- Kaho Minami as Kumi Emori
- Shinya Owada as Katsumasa Mikumo
- Kunio Murai as Masato Hinogaki
- Hiroyuki Watanabe as Yutaka Hirose
- Shingo Katsurayama as Tokihiko Kobayakawa
- Toshikazu Fukawa as Adjutant Miyashita
- Masahiko Tsugawa as Chief Cabinet Secretary
- Hideyo Amamoto as Hirotoshi Isayama
- Nobuaki Kakuda as Commanding Sector Officer
- Takafumi Matsuo as Mototsu Station Police Officer
- Kazuko Kato as School Teacher
- Katsuo Nakamura as Yaizu Harbor Fisherman
- Koichi Ueda as Village Headman
- Yoichi Atsumi as Man in Hostel Bathroom
- Yukijiro Hotaru as Suicidal Man
- Masaya Takahashi as Bicycle Shop Owner
- Koichi Kawakita, Masaaki Tezuka as SDF Officers
- Ai Maeda, Aki Maeda as Twin Girls in Yokohama
- Mizuho Yoshida as Godzilla, Man in Yaizu Harbor Office
- Akira Ohashi as King Ghidorah, Man in Yaizu Harbor Office
- Rie Ota as Baragon, Woman in Yaizu Harbor Office
- Toshinori Sasaki as Baragon
Appearances
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Gallery
Soundtrack
Alternate Titles
- GMK (Abbreviated Title)
Theatrical Releases
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- Japan - December 15, 2001 [view poster]
U.S. Release
Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack premiered in the U.S. at the Pickwick Theater on July 19th, 2003, as part of G-FEST X. Its U.S. television premiere was on August 31st, 2003, when the Sci-Fi Channel aired an 88-minute version of the English dub.[1]
The film was released on DVD in the United States by TriStar Pictures in 2004. The subtitles included in this release use the English dub's script, which often deviates from the Japanese dialogue. An extreme example is the scene where King Ghidorah is struck by a D-03 Missile intended for Godzilla. In the Japanese version, a soldier exclaims "Fuck!" while in the English dub, he strangely shouts, "Excellent!" Sony's 2014 Blu-ray release of the film fixed this particular error.
Reception
GMK is a film that has split fans for several reasons. For those who like it, they enjoy its music, story, and characters, and how it made Godzilla terrifying once again. Those who dislike the film point to the role-reversal of King Ghidorah and Godzilla, Godzilla being pure evil, and the brutal deaths of all of the three monsters Godzilla faces.
Box Office
The double feature of Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack and Hamtaro: Ham Ham Big Land Adventure made $1.9 million in Japan during their opening weekend. The pairing went on to earn roughly $20 million, with an attendance of 2,400,000, making GMK the eighteenth most-attended Godzilla film and the most successful of the Millennium series.
Video Releases
Toho DVD (2002)
- Region: 2
- Audio: Japanese
- Region: 1
- Discs: 1
- Audio: Japanese (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Special Features: Trailers
- Notes: A 2014 release packaged this disc with Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah and Godzilla vs. Mothra.
Madman DVD (2005)
- Region: 4
Toho Blu-ray (2009)
- Region: A/1
- Audio: Japanese
Sony Blu-ray (2014)
- Region: A/1
- Discs: 2
- Audio: Japanese (DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1), English (DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1)
- Special Features: Teaser trailer for Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack and trailer for Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla
- Notes: Packaged with Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla.
Videos
Trailers
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Trivia
- Shusuke Kaneko's original script for this film, titled Godzilla X Varan, Baragon and Anguirus: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack, while still similar to the finished product, featured several notable differences. This draft featured Anguirus and Varan as two of the Guardian Monsters along with Baragon, as well as different J.S.D.F. weaponry like Maser Cannons and the Gotengo. When Kaneko presented the script to Toho, they asked him to work the monsters Mothra and King Ghidorah into the film for marquee value, likely due to the poor box office performance of Godzilla vs. Megaguirus. Kaneko accepted on the condition that he could still include Baragon in the finished product, and replaced Anguirus with Mothra and Varan with King Ghidorah. This is partially the reason for the vastly different portrayals of Mothra and King Ghidorah compared to their previous incarnations.
- The incarnation of Godzilla in this film has no pupils. Kaneko intended his version of Godzilla to be evil, and felt that Godzilla's eyes shape the audience's perception of the monster. While many fans enjoy this interpretation of Godzilla, many other fans felt that Mr. Kaneko's approach to Godzilla diverged too far from Ishiro Honda's approach to Godzilla, as an allegory to the atomic bomb. Other fans were also outraged of Kaneko's unsympathetic outlook on the creature. Honda's original Godzilla was made out to seem as much of a victim of the consequences of the h-bomb as his own victims he killed within his rampage. Kaneko's Godzilla by contrast is a nigh-invincible impersonal evil and does not draw any sympathy from the audience. The film also places a more heavily increased focus on the people murdered during Godzilla's rampages than any other film before it, further vilifying Godzilla.
- Godzilla's atomic breath returns to its original blazing-blue color in this film, having been colored hot orange similar to the spiral ray in the previous two films.
- This movie is especially notable for the changes made to the monsters. Apparently, the changes to these monsters were made in order to make Godzilla seem stronger, as Kaneko wanted his version of Godzilla to be the most powerful monster in the film.
- King Ghidorah is typically portrayed as the villain in previous Godzilla movies; this movie has him as a hero. In fact, King Ghidorah is actually portrayed a few meters shorter than Godzilla; previous incarnations of the character were much, much larger, and towered over Godzilla. This is a result of him replacing Varan from the film's original draft. This role reversal is controversial among fans.
- Mothra was also revamped. Like King Ghidorah, Mothra is portrayed as being far smaller than normal. Her poison scale and hurricane wind attacks were removed, and were replaced with a shotgun-like burst of projectile stingers fired from her abdomen. This new attack of Mothra's proved to be deadly enough to topple the much larger Godzilla. She also could transfer her spiritual energy to another monster if she was destroyed, like her comrade, Baragon. In addition, Mothra's fairy servants, the Shobijin, do not make an appearance in the film. However as a reference or tribute to the Shobijin, a couple of twins is seen while Mothra flies over Tokyo.
- Baragon was altered as well. His heat ray, which is comparable to Godzilla's atomic breath, was removed. However, Baragon obviously still retains his burrowing ability. Like Mothra, Baragon is also able to transfer his spirit to the other guardians if he is defeated.
- Fuyuki Shinada, who designed the monster suits for this film, was disappointed that Varan, his all-time favorite monster, wasn't going to be in the film, so he compromised by putting some of Varan's facial features on King Ghidorah's three heads.
- During the scene where the Satsuma uses its thermal imagery on King Ghidorah, the King Ghidorah suit used in Rebirth of Mothra III is used in place of the new suit created for this film.
- At the beginning of the film, Admiral Tachibana mentions that a large reptilian monster recently attacked New York. One of the soldiers asks another next to him if the New York attack was Godzilla, with the other replying that the Americans seem to think so, but their guys "have their doubts." This is a joking reference to the 1998 American film and its version of Godzilla, which were incredibly controversial and widely disliked among fans and by Toho themselves.
- Actress Kaho Minami, who stars in the film as captain Kumi Emori, is married to actor Ken Watanabe, who plays Ishiro Serizawa in Legendary Pictures' Godzilla.
- Actresses Ai and Aki Maeda cameo as the two twin girls who witness Mothra fly over Yokohama. Ai Maeda portrayed Ayana Hirasaka in Kaneko's earlier film Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris, in which her younger sister Aki portrayed the young Ayana in flashback scenes.
- Mizuho Yoshida, Akira Ohashi and Rie Ota, who portray Godzilla, King Ghidorah and Baragon in the film, respectively, all make a cameo as people in a port office who witness Godzilla rise from the sea.
- Ohashi and Yoshida previously appeared together as Gamera and the Mother Legion respectively in Gamera 2: Attack of Legion, which was also directed by Shusuke Kaneko.
- Actor Yukijiro Hotaru, who portrayed Inspector Osako in each film of Shusuke Kaneko's Gamera trilogy, appears as the suicidal man who discovers King Ghidorah in this film.
- During the scene where King Ghidorah is revived by Mothra's energy, a sign with the Warner Bros. logo can be seen on top of a building.
- Miniatures from the Yokohama set used in this film appeared in the 2003 film Kill Bill: Volume 1, standing in for Tokyo.[3] Toshio Miike directed the brief shoot in Nikkatsu Studio, which was arranged by Shinji Higuchi.
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