GODZILLA VS. BIOLLANTE
[GOJIRA TAI BIORANTE] [ゴジラvsビオランテ]
When a scientist crosses a rose and his own dead daughter's DNA with Godzilla's much-sought-after cells, he unleashes the fearsome flora Biollante, a giant tentacled kaiju that wreaks havoc across Japan — until Godzilla escapes its imprisonment beneath the volcanic Mount Mihara and turns its atomic breath on the dreadful plant. Where the original GODZILLA film explored nuclear anxiety, GODZILLA VS. BIOLLANTE probes '80s paranoia over genetic engineering, birthing one of the franchise's most iconic creature designs and ushering in a trope where the King of the Monster's foes would evolve into even more horrendous and formidable behemoths. DIR/SCR Kazuki Ômori PROD Tomoyuki Tanaka. Japan, 1989, color, 104 min. In Japanese and English with English subtitles. RATED PG
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Run Time: 104 Minutes
Opening Date: Saturday, August 24, 2024
Genre: Science Fiction
