Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla

Infobox Film
name = Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla


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director = Kensho Yamashita
producer = Tomoyuki Tanaka
Shogo Tomiyama
writer = Hiroshi Kashiwabara
starring = Megumi Odaka
Jun Hashizume
Zenkichi Yoneyama
music = Takayuki Hattori
cinematography = Masahiro Kishimoto
editing =
distributor = Toho
released = December 10, 1994
runtime = 108 min.
country = Japan
language = Japanese
English
budget = US $10,300,000
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followed_by =
amg_id = 1:177544
imdb_id = 0109916
preceded_by = "Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II"
followed_by = "Godzilla vs. Destoroyah"nihongo|"Godzilla VS SpaceGodzilla"|ゴジラVSスペースゴジラ|Gojira tai Supē-suGojira is a 1994 kaiju film featuring Godzilla, probably the most famous of all Japan's fictional giant monsters. It stars Megumi Odaka and Jun Hashizume. It is the 21st installment in the "Godzilla" series of films

tory

In 1993, a group of soldiers and scientists setting up at Birth Island to try Project T against Godzilla. The plan is to plant a device on Godzilla which will allow the humans to control him telepathically, but the project fails. Meanwhile, a space monster attacks a NASA space station. The giant robot MOGUERA, created from the remains of Mechagodzilla is sent out to stop the monster but is easily defeated. The monster lands on Birth Island and fights Godzilla. Unfortunately, Godzilla is knocked out by the monster's corona breath while protecting his son Little Godzilla. Little Godzilla is captured in a crystalline prison below ground. The monster, for unknown reasoning, retreats, with Godzilla stalking after him, in an attempt to free his imprisoned son. The scientists discover that the space monster is a clone of Godzilla, so they name him SpaceGodzilla. The Japanese Mafia captures the psychic Miki Saegusa and brings her back to their base, in an attempt to use Project T to gain control of Godzilla. Unfortunately, their plan backfires. A recovery team is successfully dispatched and Miki and the team escape before SpaceGodzilla arrives and destroys the building. SpaceGodzilla lands in Fukuoka and destroys it in a matter of minutes, creating large crystals from the ground and turning the city into his fortress. MOGUERA arrives to once again fight SpaceGodzilla but is still no match for him. However Godzilla arrives and turns the tables on SpaceGodzilla. It is discovered that SpaceGodzilla is using a large tower in the city as a power source and is absorbing the energy through his shoulder crystals. After taking advantage of this weakness, Godzilla uses his Red Spiral Atomic Breath (first used against his robotic doppleganger in Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II), ending SpaceGodzilla's life and freeing Little Godzilla. He destroys MOGUERA in the process. Miki, with her telepathic powers, gets the control device off of Godzilla.

Box Office

Release on December 10th the film sold approximately 3,200,000 tickets in Japan and grossed around $20,000,000 (32,000,000 world wide)

Trivia

*The new anti-Godzilla robot that appears in this film, M.O.G.U.E.R.A. (short for Mobile Operation Godzilla Universal Expert Robot Aero-type), is based Fact|date=March 2008 on the alien robot Moguera from "The Mysterians".
*A children's television show centered around Little Godzilla was meant to be spun off from this movie, but for various reasons never made it past the planning stages.
*Of all the Heisei films, this is the one that makes the most extensive use of its overall continuity: Mothra's journey into space from "Godzilla vs. Mothra" is used as one possible explanation as to the birth of Space Godzilla, as is Biollante's transformation into spores that fly off into the stars in "Godzilla vs. Biollante". Also from "Godzilla vs. Biollante", the soldier who managed to infect Godzilla with the anti-nuclear bacteria is revealed to have been a close friend of Yuki, and his death at Godzilla's hands is the reason Yuki seeks revenge.
*This marks the first time a nudity scene (Yuki's shower scene) has been kept in a Godzilla movie in both the US and the original Japanese print.
*Godzilla's 40th anniversary release.
*The Godzilla costume was in poor repair due to being in the water for so many scenes. At one point (about 55 minutes into the film) when Godzilla surfaces from the water, the tip of his tail falls off.
*Not only is this the last film in the Heisei series to feature the adult Godzilla using his neon blue atomic breath, but also the last movie he would use it until "". This is because in the Heisei series' final movie, "Godzilla vs. Destoroyah", Godzilla is in a nuclear meltdown and his atomic breath is amplified to stay a powerful red.
*Space Godzilla's physical appearance is directly inspired by Super Godzilla, and the monster's physical form is an almost direct duplication of Super Godzilla's appearance from the game with only minor, mostly cosmetic changes.
*The events of Godzilla vs King Ghidorah respectively changed the Heisei Series timeline and introduced many paradoxes in the following storylines. In this new timeline, Godzilla did not exist until 1992. Therefore, Biollante's creation in 1990 never happened, meaning she cannot be a culprit for SpaceGodzilla's creation and no one outside of the group of original time travellers should still have any knowledge of her past existence. Also, if Godzilla did not exist in 1990, than he could not have killed Yuki's friend during one of his rampages.

DVD Releases

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"Columbia Tristar (Sony)"

* Released: February 1, 2000

* Aspect Ratio: Widescreen (1.85:1) letterboxed

* Sound: English (2.0)

* Region 1

* Note: A double feature with "Godzilla vs. Destoroyah"

* Note: On the U.S. DVD release, the final scene in which Godzilla is in the water while soft Japanese love music plays is cut; however, it is left in the TV, on demand, and Japanese DVD versions.

External links

*imdb title|id=0109916|title=Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
*amg movie|id=1:177544|title=Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
*rotten-tomatoes|id=godzilla_vs_space_godzilla|title=Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
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