Godzilla 1985 (1985)
Prepare yourself: the greatest star of all has returned.
87 min
Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re-titled "Godzilla 1985". Adding in new footage of Raymond Burr, this 16th Godzilla film ignores all previous sequels and serves as a direct follow-up to the 1956 "Godzilla King of the Monsters", which also featured scenes with Burr edited into 1954's "Godzilla". This film restores the darker tone of the original, as we witness the nuclear destruction of giant lizard terrorizing Japan.
- Release date
- August 23, 1985
- Country of origin
- Japan, United States
- Budget
- $200,000
- Box office
- $4,116,395
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Trailer
Cast
- Raymond Burr as Steve Martin
- Keiju Kobayashi as Prime Minister Mitamura
- Ken Tanaka as Goro Maki
- Yasuko Sawaguchi as Naoko Okumura
- Shin Takuma as Hiroshi Okumura
- Warren J. Kemmerling as General Goodhue
- Travis Swords as Major McDonough
- Eitarō Ozawa as Finance Minister Kanzaki
- Taketoshi Naitō as Takegami, Chief Cabinet Secretary
- Nobuo Kaneko as Home Affairs Minister Isomura
- Mizuho Suzuki as Foreign Minister Emori
- Takeshi Katō as Internal Trade and Industry Minister Kasaoka
- Junkichi Orimoto as Director-General of the Defense Agency
- Yoshifumi Tajima as Environmental Director General Hidaka
- Hiroshi Koizumi as Geologist Minami
- Kunio Murai as Secretary Henmi
- Shigeo Katô as Ship Captain
- Kei Satō as Gondo
- Takenori Emoto as Kitagawa
- Chinpei Hayashiya as Cameraman Kamijo (as Shinpei Hayashiya)
- Kôji Ishizaka as Member of the Staff of a Nuclear Power Plant
- Tetsuya Takeda as Tramp
- Justin Gocke as Kyle
- Yôsuke Natsuki as Biologist Hayashida
- Kenpachirô Satsuma as Godzilla (uncredited)
- Haruo Nakajima as Original Godzilla (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Akira Toriyama as Man fleeing from Godzilla (uncredited)
- James Hess as Colonel Raschen
Crew
- Kōji Hashimoto · Director
- R.J. Kizer · Director
- Hideichi Nagahara · Writer
- Lisa Tomei · Writer
- Straw Weisman · Writer
- Norio Hayashi · Producer
- Kiyomi Kanazawa · Producer
- Tony Randel · Producer
- Reijirō Koroku · Composer
- Kazutami Hara · Cinematographer
- Yoshitami Kuroiwa · Editor
- Danny Goldman · Casting director
- Tadao Tanaka · Casting director
- Akira Sakuragi · Production designer
- Mutsumi Toyoshima · Production designer