Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. 2003
Directed by Masaaki Tezuka
- Action, Fantasy, Adventure, Science Fiction
- 91 min
- PG
No human being may touch the souls of the dead.
Mothra and her fairies return to Japan to warn mankind that they must return Kiryu to the sea, for the dead must not be disturbed. However Godzilla has survived to menace Japan leaving Kiryu as the nation's only defense.
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Unpretentious, plot-driven, classical in form and epic.
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- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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- Rodney Wollamon TMDB · Oct 20247/10
I really liked how the end of the first act was met with a delightful little musical number sung by the twins. It made me both pumped for the next segment and feeling good about the old one. Fastidious piece of music. But, about the human segments. Because when I close my eyes I hear the action hero dramatics of the the late 1950s. Don't believe me, try it next time you watch it and tell me that doesn't sound like the Van Johnson heroics of the big studios. I think it's funny as hell a corps of professional aviators not once ever thought about having a mechanic as part of the plane's (Mechagodzilla) crew. Their response to the suggestion makes them look very foolish. I mean- isn't knowing that stuff part of their job? Another thing is I think the director would be good at directing westerns. I liked when humans mazered Godzilla and he just turned around and his face was like 'what the fuq, man'. Then, when Mechagodzilla was coming out of the sky right in his path all dramatic-like, Godzilla's face: 'you got to be shitting me' (ha!). Godzilla's whole posture is like a mom come home from a long days work, and she's got five kids, and all the stuff that's thrown at her from every dire
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Cast
- Noboru KanekoYoshito Chûjô
- Miho YoshiokaPilot Azusa Kisaragi
- Mitzuki KogaMechagodzilla Operator Kyôsuke Akiba
- Hiroshi KoizumiDr. Shin'ichi Chûjô
- Tsutomu KitagawaGojira
- Motokuni NakagawaKiryu
- Akira NakaoPremier Hayoto Igarashi
- Koichi UedaGeneral Dobashi
- Tatsuki OmoriShun Chujo
- Koh TakasugiJSDF Lieutenant Togashi
Crew
- Masaaki TezukaDirector
- Masaaki TezukaScreenplay
- Masahiro YokotaniScreenplay
- Yoshinori SekiguchiDirector of Photography
- Michiru OshimaOriginal Music Composer
- Shinichi FushimaEditor
- Kazunari YamanakaProducer
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