GODZILLA VS. HEDORAH
[GOJIRA TAI HEDORA] [ゴジラ対ヘドラ]
Amid rampant pollution threatening to suffocate Japan, a tadpole-like alien creature lands in the sullied islands and feasts upon the industrial waste. Fueled by the grime and smog, the creature, Hedorah, transforms into a giant monster (that can fly!), and it's up to fellow kaiju Godzilla to defeat the ecological monstrosity. In his first and only outing directing the King of the Monsters, Yoshimitsu Banno sought to warn Japanese audiences of a very real dilemma facing their country and did so with trippy psychedelic visuals, animated sequences and one of the strangest rogues in Godzilla's gallery. DIR/SCR Yoshimitsu Banno; SCR Kaoru Mabuchi; PROD Tomoyuki Tanaka. Japan, 1971, color, 85 min. In Japanese with English subtitles. RATED PG
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Run Time: 85 Minutes
Opening Date: Saturday, August 10, 2024
Genre: Science Fiction
