Terror of Mechagodzilla information

Terror of Mechagodzilla
Terror of Mechagodzilla
	Theatrical release poster
Japanese name
Kanji	メカゴジラの逆襲
Revised Hepburn
Transcriptions
Revised Hepburn	mekagojira no gyakushuu
Directed by	Ishirō Honda
Written by	Yukiko Takayama
Produced by	Tomoyuki Tanaka; Henry G. Saperstein
Starring	Katsuhiko Sasaki ; Tomoko Ai ; Akihiko Hirata ; Katsumasa Uchida ; Gorō Mutsumi ; Tadao Nakamaru; Toru Kawai
Cinematography	Sokei Tomioka
Edited by	Yoshitami Kuroiwa
Music by	Akira Ifukube
Production; company	Toho–Eizo
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	March 15, 1975;
Running time	83 minutes
Language	Japanese
Budget	$1.2 million
Box office	¥330 million (Japan rentals) ; $20 million (worldwide)

Terror of Mechagodzilla (メカゴジラの逆襲, Mekagojira no Gyakushū, lit. 'Mechagodzilla's Counterattack') is a 1975 Japanese kaiju film directed by Ishirō Honda, written by Yukiko Takayama, and produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka and Henry G. Saperstein, with special effects by Teruyoshi Nakano. Distributed by Toho and produced under their effects subsidiary Toho–Eizo, it is the 15th film in the Godzilla franchise, serving as a direct sequel to the 1974 film Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla, the final film in the initial Showa Era of the franchise before Godzilla returned nine years later in The Return of Godzilla, directed by Ishirō Honda and scored by Akira Ifukube before their deaths.

Terror of Mechagodzilla stars Katsuhiko Sasaki, Tomoko Ai, Akihiko Hirata, and Gorō Mutsumi, and features Toru Kawai, Kazunari Mori, and Tatsumi Nikamoto as the fictional monster characters Godzilla, Mechagodzilla 2, and Titanosaurus, respectively. The film was released theatrically in Japan on March 15, 1975, to mostly positive reviews. UK in June 1976 under the title Monsters From an Unknown Planet. It received a limited release in the United States in 1978 by Bob Conn Enterprises under the title The Terror of Godzilla. The film remains the least financially successful entry in the Godzilla franchise to this day.

^ ^a ^b Edelson, Edward (1980). Great animals of the movies. Doubleday. p. 85. ISBN 9780385147286. By the late 1970s, Godzilla films settled down to a comfortable formula. Toho was making two films a year. Each cost in the neighborhood of $1.2 million and could be counted on to earn about $20 million.
^ メカゴジラの逆襲
^ 歴代ゴジラ映画作品一覧

[Edelson-1] Edelson, Edward (1980). Great animals of the movies. Doubleday. p. 85. ISBN 9780385147286. By the late 1970s, Godzilla films settled down to a comfortable formula. Toho was making two films a year. Each cost in the neighborhood of $1.2 million and could be counted on to earn about $20 million.

[2] メカゴジラの逆襲

[3] 歴代ゴジラ映画作品一覧

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