Godzilla Raids Again All Godzilla Forms

"The hydrogen bomb tests awakened Godzilla, and at present, they have awakened an ankylosaurus."

— Dr. Tadokoro, during the emergency conference.

Likewise known as Gojira no Gyakushu (Godzilla's Counterattack) is the first sequel in the Godzilla franchise and the 2nd entry in the Showa era, Godzilla Raids Once more was fabricated shortly after the success of Godzilla (1954). Information technology's notable for introducing the monster Anguirus and the tradition of e'er having Godzilla fight some other foe. The last blackness-and-white pic and it kept with the grim tone of the previous flick.

The motion-picture show was dubbed every bit Gigantis, the Fire Monster, which did things like requite Godzilla Anguirus' roar in guild to convince audiences this wasn't a Godzilla sequel (no, really), because Paul Schreibman, who distributed the film through Warner Brothers, believed that a stand alone film would be more successful. The dub was notable for having George Takei, Marvin Miller, and Keye Luke among the cast, simply it wasn't well received and Schreibman himself subsequently lamented his decision. Depending on your point of view, it's either an embarrassment or one-act gilt.

Searching for schools of fish for the Kaiyo Fishing Company, Koji Kobayashi's plane malfunctions and he has to brand an emergency landing most Iwato Island. He is rescued by a coworker, Shoichi Tsukioka, and they are shocked to discover Godzilla and a mysterious monster later named Anguirus contesting on the island, who fall into the ocean. The pair later give bear witness to a committee that includes Dr. Kyohei Yamane, who was present for Godzilla's original attack on Tokyo and advises them to lure Godzilla away with flares while the city in in blackout. Days afterward, Godzilla appears at Osaka's shore. Everything seems to get to program as the urban center goes into blackout and flares lure him away. But a jailbreak gone awry causes a fire that lures Godzilla back to shore. Anguirus soon follows and the pair ignore the military machine fire as a brutal battle lays devastation across the city. With Anguirus expressionless and Godzilla victoriously leaving Osaka in ruins, our heroes bound at the take a chance to fight the King of the Monsters when he shows upwardly near a modest icy island. Can Godzilla be defeated, and would it take the sacrifice of one of our heroes for this to be done?

As noted above, originally distributed past Warner Bros. on a double-bill with Teenagers from Outer Space in usa. Guess what else they're distributing...

Canonically followed by King Kong vs. Godzilla.

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The film provides examples of

• Actionized Sequel: Information technology's nonetheless a horror film, just this is where Godzilla start fights an opponent who's as dangerous equally he is. More than action scenes are spread throughout the course of the pic'due south shorter runtime, most noticeably a convict breakout leading into a rather grindingly slow car hunt, and instead of a two-man operation to deploy a chemical weapon underwater, the film climaxes with a furious set on on Godzilla past the air defense force.
• Allegory: The film is treated as the Nagasaki to the first motion picture's Hiroshima. The starting time film showcased all the horrors of state of war, it's subversive backwash, the victims of war both human and monster, and haunting imagery of the atomic flop'south destructive power. This moving picture does have its aftermath afterward Osaka's destruction due to the monsters' fighting, but there'south no weight other than whether Godzilla might attack once more.
• Apocalypse Wow: Unlike the previous film, at that place's no other human casualties aside six criminals and a few JSDF planes. But the Scenery Gorn in Osaka still had its effects upon its inhabitants.
• Ascended Fridge Horror: Yamane fears due to continuous nuclear testings in the Pacific, in that location might exist another Godzilla in the world. Cue this film and his fear ultimately comes truthful.
• Artistic License – Biology: Professor Tadokoro states that Angurirus is a cannibal Ankylosaurus. Ankylosauruses are actually herbivores.
• Behemoth Battle: The get-go of the Godzilla serial: Godzilla vs Anguirus in Osaka.
• Bittersweet Ending: Godzilla is defeated, but at the cost of Tsukioka's best friend's life. The film ends on a rather somber annotation equally Tsukioka pulls his F86 away, final with a slow zoom out of Kamiko Island. Gigantis, with the magic of stock footage, ends on a decidedly forced, lighter note.
• Bloodier and Gorier: Early Installment Weirdness bated, the monster fights here is brutal and violent to the point that both monsters drew blood. Angurius bleeds to his expiry when Godzilla bites his neck.
• Cached Alive/Harmless Freezing: How Godzilla is defeated.
• Helm Obvious: The U.Southward. cut promotes Shoichi Tsukioka to a narrational role, who then gain to explain every piddling detail in the movie. EVERYTHING.
  • Also, this line at the briefing:
• Characterization Marches On: Since this Godzilla will become the ane in the 60'south and lxx's, in this movie, his graphic symbol ranged from an animalistic creature who is destructive equally hell to a superhero with anthropomorphic tendencies. Aye, this the aforementioned Godzilla of the sixty's and mid 'lxx'due south of later films. His Heisei counterpart remains the same fauna he'due south ever been.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: Tsukioka falls casualty to this in the third act while searching for Godzilla, much to the annoyance and anxiety of Hidemi.
  • Gigantis expands upon this trait a niggling more and actually gives Tsukioka somewhat of a developmental arc.
• Continuity Snarl: The biggest one yet due to Paul Schriebman's meddling. Apparently, the original Godzilla was a "Gigantis" or "Angurus", and got asphyxiated past the Oxygen Destroyer. The weapon that killed the original Godzilla.
  • Kamiko Island is reduced to an iceberg in Rex Kong vs. Godzilla.
• Contrived Coincidence: Tsukioka has a knack for this: 9 minutes into the flick, he and Kobayashi run into Godzilla and Anguirus on Iwato Island; They encounter the police officers chasing afterwards prisoners who had just escaped using a truck, and Tsukioka finds Godzilla while the whole air forcefulness is looking for him. While the last one was justified, the other ii are an odd coincidence. Steve Ryfle on the Classic Media commentary lampshaded this.
  • What are the odds that an Armored Truck total of convicts would merely so happen to drive into Osaka, easily overpower their captors, quite serendipitously selection an Oil Truck equally the getaway vehicle, and accidentally crash it into – what else? – oil tanks at a Ability Station, thus causing an enormous explosion that attracts Godzilla back to Osaka? Not practiced, I can tell y'all that.
• Expressionless Sidekick: Kobayashi in trying to keep Godzilla from going into the ocean at the climax.
• Demoted to Extra: Despite appearing in the Japanese poster, Kyohei Yamane (Takashi Shimura) only appears in one scene to discuss how to deal with Godzilla after the previous event became a disaster. Afterwards that, he does non announced for the balance of the film.
• Did You Only Flip Off Cthulhu?: Kobayashi repeatedly insults Godzilla from the air during his short lived tenure as the monster's "keeper" on Kamiko Island.
• Disaster Dominoes: The convicts' truck crashes into an oil refinery and sets off a chain reaction.
• Dub Name Modify: Guess who.
• Early Installment Weirdness:
  • While some of these are de facto traits carried over from the previous motion-picture show, Godzilla still has his low pitched bellows, his fins don't low-cal upward when he breathes the heat-ray (shortsightedness on behalf of the SPFX crew), and he and his opponent are portrayed through puppetry much more often.
  • This is the beginning film in the whole Godzilla franchise to feature the archetype monster-on-monster fight scene, and as such information technology suffers from this trope. Godzilla and Anguirus' terminal fight happens during the films second act as opposed to the third similar later films and Anguirus is killed immediately afterwords equally said 3rd act focuses on the JSDF trying to stop Godzilla at a remote iceberg. Later sequels would have the enemy monster (or Godzilla) either wounded or dead past the end instead.
  • The style of the fight in the film is much more subdued and has a slight horror element to it, with the focus being on the devastation acquired by the 2 monsters, along with a near-total lack of music, alongside the far more animalistic fighting fashion Godzilla and Anguirus have in comparison to later entries.
  • This is the only picture in the unabridged Showa Saga where it has whatsoever connectedness with the previous film. Since this is the but film to keep what the original film left off, it brings a rather oddity with the residual of the serial. Godzilla for example is 100% identical to the original Godzilla and the humans withal treated him in a very serious light afterwards what the original did, simply his behavior is this; he does not seem to be interested in attacking humans until the concluding act where they straight assault or annoy him. Anguirus is the i who attacked Godzilla first while the later films eventually plant them as friends. Any connection with the previous film is decidedly abandoned in the form of Rex Kong vs. Godzilla where the saga goes into Lighter and Softer territory.
• Family-Unfriendly Death: Rather than Anguirus being killed by Godzilla's atomic ray or escaping, Godzilla brutally bites into his neck until he dies.
• Filling the Silence: The American version adds ludicrous amounts of narration and music that was never in that location in the Japanese version. To exist fair, the Japanese version had scenes that drag on with piddling, if any, dialogue or music (the scene with the escapee criminals, for example), but what the American version did to rectify this was pretty damn extreme.
• Flashed-Badge Hijack: "Lucky this motorcar came along."
• Happy Ending Override: While the outset film'south ending wasn't exactly "happy", it made all the effort the characters went through mattered. This pic showed that in that location will be another Godzilla. Though this saga proves afterward that the second Godzilla ultimately becomes a hero.
• Helicopter Flyswatter: Simply watch the final boxing sequence. The planes drib like flies.
  • In the Japanese version, Godzilla fifty-fifty catches a jet and tosses it to the ground.
• Inconsistent Dub: See further below for the obvious examples, but Gigantis also misnames Kamiko Isle, twice in the same reel. It's either "Kamito" Island or "Kiawata Island".
• Kill It with Ice: The armed services attempts to do this to Godzilla by burial him in an avalanche. Godzilla breaks gratis unscathed in the next picture.
• Lighter and Softer: Yes, Lighter and Softer. Compared to the previous film, Godzilla Raids Again is actually more than hopeful despite the actions of the monsters, and characters didn't go worried about the monsters 24/seven. While still a Horror film, at least information technology'southward not deadline cynical, something the first film is. Information technology also does not contain the horrors and and aftermath that gave the original film its weight, and a determination where monster and man die together that treats the both every bit victims of war.
• Love Triangle: Tsukioka is engaged to Hidemi Yamaji while Kobayashi secretly pines for her. Dissimilar the previous flick where there were consequences that followed, Kobayashi eventually became a Hopeless Suitor in a dissimilar mode, and sees himself out. Notwithstanding, Hidemi does mourn for him.
• Mundane Solution: Godzilla is heading for Osaka! What do we do to prevent a repeat of the horrible decease toll of his attack on Tokyo? Evacuate the city, of form.
• Narrating the Obvious: Done entirely earnestly in Gigantis.
• No Pronunciation Guide: While non an extreme case, all the male dubbers pronounce Tsukioka equally "Sue-Kee-Oh-Ka", while the female dubbers pronounce it somewhat more accurately equally "Skyo-Ka".
• No-Sell: Angurius is the first Godzilla opponent to tank his Diminutive Breath (including to the face), with the beam destroying the buildings behind him. Justified every bit he'south every bit equally radioactive as Godzilla. It is merely when Godzilla takes a huge bite out of his neck that Godzilla ultimately manages to kill Angurius, then incinerating his dead carcass.
• Off-Model: Much like the previous picture, the monsters' close-ups are operated by a hand boob. Said shut-ups don't make them look like an verbal match to the suits.
• Posthumous Character: Daisuke Serizawa is mentioned as the inventor of the Oxygen Destroyer who gave a Heroic Cede from the previous film.
• Regional Bonus: The 2009 German DVD has the all-time visual presentation of the film anywhere, although the German version is very slightly cut. (Even despite the film's historic period, Japanese telecines don't fare all that well in comparison).
• Scenery Gorn: Much like the previous picture show, though information technology isn't as Nightmare Fuel-ish as the previous motion picture, where at that place was a tear jerking levels of tragedy accompanied by Ifukube's score.
• Senseless Cede: Ascended Fridge Horror proved that there was another Godzilla in the world after the first one's expiry. However, sequels have proven that this Godzilla is much more non-malicious than the previous.
• Slurpasaur: Are among the menagerie of bad special furnishings seen during Yamane'southward burn monsters presentation in Gigantis. Steve Ryfle couldn't even place all the clips, offer the supposition some were from "Deal Basement Schoolhouse Science films".
• Spell My Proper name with a "The": Godzilla is always referred to with an integral article in the original High german dub.

  "Das ist, ein Godzilla", Tsukioka

  • As is Angurus in Gigantis.
• Spell My Proper noun with an "Due south": A very ridiculous case in the English language version. Godzilla is either "Gigantis" or "Angurus", the latter due to the fact that while we take an annoying stock footage-laden unintelligent design theory, when Yamane finally reaches he stock-footage of Godzilla, Godzilla is referred to as Angurus past the professor. Seriously Paul Schreibman, which is it!?
  • Then there'southward the hackjob washed to the Japanese bandage and crew in the opening credits: Shigeru Kayama > Shigem Kayama, Eiji Tsuburaya > Eliji Tsuburaya, Minoru Chiaki > Mindru Chiaki, and Motoyoshi Oda > Motoyoshi QDQ.
  • Gigantis bated, Anguirus' original romanization, dating all the manner back to 1955 ◊, was Angilas, before Toho inverse it effectually the mid-70s to the current spelling/pronunciation. For some unknown reason. Angilas is the more than accurate romanization in any case.
• Stupid Sacrifice: Fifty-fifty though Kobayashi showed the air force the path to victory, there was really no need for him to stick around afterwards the JADF got in that location.
• Tokyo Is the Center of the Universe: A notable disfavor for Godzilla, most of the action is centered around the western city of Osaka, at the fourth dimension the second largest city in Japan.
• Too Dumb to Live: Of the nine convicts, the dumbest of all were the final six. The first grouping tries to escape by truck and are pursued at a ridiculously deadening speed (thus, unintentionally realistic) by Tsukioka, Kobayashi and two police officers, simply crash into an oil refinery. The last iii criminals run down into a subway station when they could have run out of attain of Godzilla and Anguirus's fighting. Nevertheless, they drown when Godzilla tackles Anguirus into the river, causing the ceiling to collapse and killing them.
• Villain Protagonist: It's Godzilla. One of the first 3 films before his eventual Heel–Face Turn in Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster. The fact that he decides to leave Nihon alone after defeating Anguirus (despite destroying proficient portions of Osaka) tells you such.

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