Godzilla Raids Again
1955
160 Min
In this sequel to the 1954 cult classic, two pilots (Hiroshi Koizumi and Minoru Chiaki) land on a remote island and stumble upon the earth-shaking terror of two gigantic beasts locked in battle, one of which is later determined to be a relative of the infamous city-stomping Godzilla. The enormous reptiles disappear into the ocean, only to reignite their mighty clash in Osaka, where the two monsters naturally bring mass destruction to the city.
Toho producer turned banana oil salesman Tomoyuki Tanaka recruits studio grunt Motoyoshi Oda to follow up on the studio’s sub-genre-defining surprise financial success of a few months earlier with… read review