Godzilla 1985 (1985)

Prepare yourself: the greatest star of all has returned.

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.

Cast (35)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

Raymond Burr

Steven Martin

Keiju Kobayashi

Prime Minister Mitamura

Ken Tanaka

Goro Maki

Yasuko Sawaguchi

Naoko Okumura

Shin Takuma

Hiroshi "Ken" Okumura

Warren J. Kemmerling

General Goodhue

J

James Scott Hess

Colonel Raschen

T

Travis Swords

Major McDonough

Eitarō Ozawa

Finance Minister Kanzaki

Taketoshi Naitō

Takegami, Chief Cabinet Secretary

Nobuo Kaneko

Home Affairs Minister Isomura

Mizuho Suzuki

Foreign Minister Emori

Takeshi Katō

Internal Trade and Industry Minister Kasaoka

S

Sho Hashimoto

Captain of Super X

Junkichi Orimoto

Director-General of the Defense Agency

Yoshibumi Tajima

Environmental Director General Hidaka

Hiroshi Koizumi

Geologist Minami

Kunio Murai

Secretary Henmi

Shigeo Katō

Ship Captain

Kei Satō

Gondo

T

Takenori Emoto

Kitagawa

C

Chinpei Hayashiya

Cameraman Kamijo (as Shinpei Hayashiya)

Koji Ishizaka

Member of the Staff of a Nuclear Power Plant

Tetsuya Takeda

Tramp

C

Crawford Binion

Lieutenant

Justin Gocke

Kyle

Yōsuke Natsuki

Biologist Hayashida

Kenpachirō Satsuma

Godzilla (uncredited)

Haruo Nakajima

Original Godzilla (archive footage) (uncredited)

Akira Toriyama

Man fleeing from Godzilla (uncredited)

Tony Plana

Goro Maki (voice) (uncredited)

Lara Cody

Naoko Okumura / Tohto Times walla / Pentagon personnel (voice) (uncredited)

Andy Goldberg

Hiroshi "Ken" Okumura (voice) (uncredited)

Gregory Snegoff

Secretary Takegami / Kitagawa / newscaster (voice) (uncredited)

P

Paul Wilson

Biologist Hayashida / Kakurai (voice) (uncredited)

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