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For the 1996 film released in Japan as "Mothra", see <a href="/wiki/Rebirth_of_Mothra" title="Rebirth of Mothra"><i>Rebirth of Mothra</i></a>. For the Godzilla character, see <a href="/wiki/Mothra" title="Mothra">Mothra</a>.</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vevent"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary" style="font-size: 125%; font-style: italic;">Mothra</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Mothra_1961_poster.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Mothra_1961_poster.jpg/220px-Mothra_1961_poster.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="312" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Mothra_1961_poster.jpg/330px-Mothra_1961_poster.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Mothra_1961_poster.jpg/440px-Mothra_1961_poster.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2620" data-file-height="3718" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Theatrical release poster</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data description"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #b0c4de;">Japanese name</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><b><a href="/wiki/Katakana" title="Katakana">Katakana</a></b></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">モスラ</span></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox-subbox mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%; text-align: left; background-color: #f9ffbc;">Transcriptions</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Hepburn_romanization" title="Hepburn romanization">Revised Hepburn</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Mosura</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Directed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ishir%C5%8D_Honda" title="Ishirō Honda">Ishirō Honda</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Screenplay by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Shinichi_Sekizawa" title="Shinichi Sekizawa">Shinichi Sekizawa</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008183_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008183-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Based on</th><td class="infobox-data"><i>The Glowing Fairies and Mothra</i><br />by <a href="/wiki/Shin%27ichir%C5%8D_Nakamura" title="Shin'ichirō Nakamura">Shin'ichirō Nakamura</a>, Takehiko Fukunaga, Yoshie Hotta<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV200883_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV200883-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Produced by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Tomoyuki_Tanaka" title="Tomoyuki Tanaka">Tomoyuki Tanaka</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008183_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008183-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Starring</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Frankie_Sakai" title="Frankie Sakai">Frankie Sakai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hiroshi_Koizumi" title="Hiroshi Koizumi">Hiroshi Koizumi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ky%C5%8Dko_Kagawa" title="Kyōko Kagawa">Kyōko Kagawa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Peanuts" title="The Peanuts">The Peanuts</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Cinematography</th><td class="infobox-data">Hajime Koizumi<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008183_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008183-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Edited by</th><td class="infobox-data">Ichiji Taira<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008183_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008183-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Music by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Y%C5%ABji_Koseki" title="Yūji Koseki">Yūji Koseki</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Production<br />company</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="vertical-align: middle;"><a href="/wiki/Toho" title="Toho">Toho Co., Ltd</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008183_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008183-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Distributed by</th><td class="infobox-data">Toho</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; white-space: normal;">Release date</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist film-date"> <ul><li>July 30, 1961<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1961-07-30</span>)</span> (Japan)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; white-space: normal;">Running time</div></th><td class="infobox-data">101 minutes<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008183_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008183-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">Japan</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Languages</th><td class="infobox-data">Japanese<br />English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Budget</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="white-space: nowrap">¥200,000,000</span> (equivalent to ¥1,080,336,539 in 2019)<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski2017173_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski2017173-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>Mothra</b></i><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<a href="/wiki/Japanese_language" title="Japanese language">Japanese</a>: <span lang="ja">モスラ</span>, <a href="/wiki/Hepburn_romanization" title="Hepburn romanization">Hepburn</a>: <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn"><i>Mosura</i></i></span>)</span> is a 1961 Japanese <a href="/wiki/Kaiju" title="Kaiju"><i>kaiju</i> film</a> directed by <a href="/wiki/Ishir%C5%8D_Honda" title="Ishirō Honda">Ishirō Honda</a>, with special effects by <a href="/wiki/Eiji_Tsuburaya" title="Eiji Tsuburaya">Eiji Tsuburaya</a>. Produced and distributed by <a href="/wiki/Toho" title="Toho">Toho Co., Ltd</a>, it is the first film in the <i>Mothra</i> franchise. The film stars <a href="/wiki/Frankie_Sakai" title="Frankie Sakai">Frankie Sakai</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hiroshi_Koizumi" title="Hiroshi Koizumi">Hiroshi Koizumi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ky%C5%8Dko_Kagawa" title="Kyōko Kagawa">Kyōko Kagawa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Ito" title="Jerry Ito">Jerry Ito</a>, and <a href="/wiki/The_Peanuts" title="The Peanuts">The Peanuts</a>. In the film, an expedition to an irradiated island brings civilization in contact with a primitive native culture. When one sensationalist <a href="/wiki/Entrepreneurship" title="Entrepreneurship">entrepreneur</a> abducts two doll-sized priestesses for exploitation, their ancient <a href="/wiki/Deity" title="Deity">deity</a>, known as <a href="/wiki/Mothra" title="Mothra">Mothra</a>, arises in retaliation. </p><p>In 1960, producer <a href="/wiki/Tomoyuki_Tanaka" title="Tomoyuki Tanaka">Tomoyuki Tanaka</a> hired <a href="/wiki/Shin%27ichir%C5%8D_Nakamura" title="Shin'ichirō Nakamura">Shin'ichirō Nakamura</a> to write an original story for a new <i>kaiju</i> film. Co-written with Takehiko Fukunaga, and Yoshie Hotta, <i>The Glowing Fairies and Mothra</i> was serialized in a magazine in January 1961. Screenwriter <a href="/wiki/Shinichi_Sekizawa" title="Shinichi Sekizawa">Shinichi Sekizawa</a> later adapted the story into a screenplay, patterning his version after <i><a href="/wiki/King_Kong_(1933_film)" title="King Kong (1933 film)">King Kong</a></i> (1933) and <i><a href="/wiki/Godzilla_(1954_film)" title="Godzilla (1954 film)">Godzilla</a></i> (1954). </p><p><i>Mothra</i> was theatrically released in Japan on July 30, 1961. An edited, English dubbed version was released theatrically in the United States on May 10, 1962, by <a href="/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" title="Columbia Pictures">Columbia Pictures</a>. The titular monster, <a href="/wiki/Mothra" title="Mothra">Mothra</a>, would become Toho's second most popular <i>kaiju</i> character after <a href="/wiki/Godzilla" title="Godzilla">Godzilla</a>, appearing in eleven <i>Godzilla</i> films and her own trilogy in the 1990s. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plot">Plot</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mothra_(film)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Plot"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In waters off Infant Island, a presumed uninhabited site for Rolisican atomic tests, the <i>Daini-Gen'you-Maru</i> is caught and run aground in the turbulence of a typhoon. A rescue party following the storm finds four sailors alive and strangely unafflicted with <a href="/wiki/Acute_radiation_syndrome" title="Acute radiation syndrome">radiation sickness</a>, which they attribute to the juice provided them by island natives. The story is broken by tenacious reporter Zenichiro Fukuda and photographer Michi Hanamura, who infiltrate the hospital examining the survivors. </p><p>The Rolisican Embassy responds by co-sponsoring a joint Japanese–Rolisican scientific expedition to Infant Island, led by <a href="/wiki/Business_magnate" title="Business magnate">capitalist</a> Clark Nelson. Also on the expedition are radiation specialist Dr. Harada, <a href="/wiki/Linguistics" title="Linguistics">linguist</a>/<a href="/wiki/Anthropology" title="Anthropology">anthropologist</a> Shin'ichi Chūjō, and stowaway reporter Fukuda. Chūjō has studied the cultures of islands in the area and ascertained that one of the key hieroglyphs in their written language, a radiant cross-shaped star, translates as <i><a href="/wiki/Mothra" title="Mothra">Mothra</a></i>. There the team discover a vast jungle of mutated flora, a fleeing native tribe, and two young women only twelve inches tall, who save Chujo from being eaten by a vampire plant. The "<a href="/wiki/Mothra#Mothra's_fairies" title="Mothra">Shobijin</a>" (small beauties), as Fukuda dubs them, wish their island to be spared further atomic testing. Acknowledging this message, the team returns and conceals these events from the public. </p><p>Nelson, however, returns to the island with a crew of henchmen and abducts the girls, gunning down several natives who try to save them. While Nelson profits off a "Secret Fairies Show" in <a href="/wiki/Tokyo" title="Tokyo">Tokyo</a> featuring the girls singing, both they and the island natives beseech their god Mothra, a giant egg, for help. Fukuda, Hanamura, and Chūjō communicate with the young women via <a href="/wiki/Telepathy" title="Telepathy">telepathy</a>; they express conviction that Mothra will come to their aid and warn that "good people are sure to be hurt". Fukuda's newspaper has accused Nelson of holding the girls against their will; Nelson denies the charge and files a <a href="/wiki/Libel" class="mw-redirect" title="Libel">libel</a> suit against the paper. Meanwhile, the island egg hatches to reveal Mothra as a giant caterpillar, who begins swimming the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Ocean" title="Pacific Ocean">Pacific Ocean</a> toward Japan. Mothra destroys a cruise ship and survives a <a href="/wiki/Napalm" title="Napalm">napalm</a> attack on a beeline path for Tokyo. The Rolisican Embassy, however, defends Nelson's property rights over the girls, ignoring any connection to the monster. </p><p>Mothra arrives at the Japanese mainland, impervious to the barrage of weaponry directed at it, and builds a <a href="/wiki/Pupa#Cocoon" title="Pupa">cocoon</a> in the ruins of <a href="/wiki/Tokyo_Tower" title="Tokyo Tower">Tokyo Tower</a>. Public feeling turns against Nelson, and he is ordered to release the girls. He flees incognito to Rolisica with the Shobijin concealed in a suitcase, where Mothra, newly hatched in an <a href="/wiki/Imago" title="Imago">imago</a> form, resumes her search. Police scour New Kirk City for Nelson as Mothra lays waste to the metropolis. Nelson attempts to flee the city, but while driving through the streets he is recognized by civilians, and killed in the resultant shootout with police. The girls are assigned to Chūjō's care. Church bells begin to ring, and sunlight illuminates the cross atop the steeple with radiant beams, reminding Chūjō and Hanamura of Mothra's unique symbol and of the girls' voices. At Chūjō's suggestion, numerous church bells are rung simultaneously in order to attract Mothra to an airport runway, on which Mothra's symbol has been painted. The girls are returned, and Mothra flies back to Infant Island. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cast">Cast</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mothra_(film)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Cast"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 25em;min-width: min(25em, 100%);"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Frankie_Sakai" title="Frankie Sakai">Frankie Sakai</a> as Zen'ichirō Fukuda<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ky%C5%8Dko_Kagawa" title="Kyōko Kagawa">Kyōko Kagawa</a> as Michi Hanamura</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hiroshi_Koizumi" title="Hiroshi Koizumi">Hiroshi Koizumi</a> as Dr. Shinichi Chujo</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ken_Uehara" title="Ken Uehara">Ken Uehara</a> as Dr. Harada</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Ito" title="Jerry Ito">Jerry Ito</a> as Clark Nelson</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Peanuts" title="The Peanuts">Yumi Ito and Emi Ito</a> as the Shobijin (Small Beauties)<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski2017174_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski2017174-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Takashi_Shimura" title="Takashi Shimura">Takashi Shimura</a> as Sadakatsu Amano, Nitto Editor</li> <li>Masamitsu Tayama as Shinji Chujo</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenji_Sahara" title="Kenji Sahara">Kenji Sahara</a> as Helicopter Pilot</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akihiko_Hirata" title="Akihiko Hirata">Akihiko Hirata</a> as Doctor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bin_Furuya" title="Bin Furuya">Bin Furuya</a> as Infant Island dancer<sup id="cite_ref-:1_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Dunham" title="Robert Dunham">Robert Dunham</a> as a Rolisican<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:20:09_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:20:09-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haruo_Nakajima" title="Haruo Nakajima">Haruo Nakajima</a> and <a href="/wiki/Katsumi_Tezuka" title="Katsumi Tezuka">Katsumi Tezuka</a> as <a href="/wiki/Mothra" title="Mothra">Mothra</a> (caterpillar)<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:03:55_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:03:55-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Themes">Themes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mothra_(film)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Themes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Authors Steve Ryfle and Ed Godziszewski note that Honda treats the film's nuclear anxiety and proxy relationship between America and Japan differently. They note that Rolisica (an amalgam of Russia and America) is portrayed as a "pushy capitalist superpower" that is more concerned with Nelson's money, allowing his crimes in Japan to go unpunished. They also note that Rolisica's atomic ray gun seems to violate Japan's three non-nuclear principles. They iterate that Honda's ideal of understanding and cooperation is achieved through religion, even noting the religious-like iconography of Infant Island. However, they note that the film's political satire "never gets too serious."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski2017176_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski2017176-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ryfle notes that some writers compared Rolisica's bombing of Infant Island to America's bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Nelson's kidnapping of the Shobijin to America's occupation and forced Westernization of Japan.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200925:38_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200925:38-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ryfle expresses that the film paints a bad portrait of Rolisica and by extension, the United States, noting that Rolisica exploits natives for atomic testing and commercial gain (via Nelson), and Nelson's press coverage restriction on the expedition is an attempt of covering up Rolisica's involvement in the bombing of Infant Island.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200946:28_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200946:28-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Production">Production</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mothra_(film)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Production"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the summer of 1960, producer <a href="/wiki/Tomoyuki_Tanaka" title="Tomoyuki Tanaka">Tomoyuki Tanaka</a> hired <a href="/wiki/Shin%27ichir%C5%8D_Nakamura" title="Shin'ichirō Nakamura">Shin'ichirō Nakamura</a> to write an original story for a <i>kaiju</i> film. Nakamura collaborated with Takehiko Fukunaga and Zenei Hotta (sometimes credited as Yoshie Hotta), with each writer writing one part of the story. The story, <i>The Glowing Fairies and Mothra</i>, was then serialized in Weekly Asahi Extra magazine in January 1961.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski2017173_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski2017173-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tanaka contacted Sho Watanabe about casting <a href="/wiki/The_Peanuts" title="The Peanuts">The Peanuts</a> in the film. Watanabe gave the twins permission to participate in the film due to being impressed with the "uniqueness" of the idea.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGodziszewski199499_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGodziszewski199499-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>However, Toho had difficulty with scheduling the twins to shoot their scenes due to contractual obligations with Watanabe Productions.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski2017175_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski2017175-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For the film, Honda wanted a more Disney-inspired approach, stating, "We wanted to do something that was new, for the whole family, like a <a href="/wiki/Walt_Disney" title="Walt Disney">Disney</a> or <a href="/wiki/Classical_Hollywood_cinema" title="Classical Hollywood cinema">Hollywood</a> type of picture."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski2017173_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski2017173-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tanaka created the name "Mothra" by combining the Japanese word for "moth" (mosu) and the suffix "ra", taken from Godzilla's Japanese name "Gojira".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200918:40_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200918:40-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Adding the suffix "ra" would become a common practice for naming monsters, not just in Toho productions (e.g. <a href="/wiki/King_Ghidorah" title="King Ghidorah">King Ghidorah</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ebirah" class="mw-redirect" title="Ebirah">Ebirah</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hedorah" title="Hedorah">Hedorah</a>), but in non-Toho Japanese productions, e.g. <a href="/wiki/Gamera" title="Gamera">Gamera</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200918:50_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200918:50-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Writing">Writing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mothra_(film)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Writing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Prior to the original story being written, Toho held story meetings to discuss ideas. One of the ideas included to have Mothra emit a ray beam.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:12:35_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:12:35-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While writing the original story <i>The Glowing Fairies and Mothra</i>, Nakamura chose a giant moth because he wanted a creature that underwent a transformation.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200918:16_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200918:16-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Producer Tanaka later confirmed that the female perspective for the film was suggested by another producer during the early planning stages. This inspired Tanaka to come up with the idea for the Shobijin and their roles as guardian spirits of a South Seas island.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200933:44_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200933:44-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The character Zen'ichirō Fukuda was named after the writers of the original story.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200947:49_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200947:49-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the original story, Fukuda is not on the initial expedition and ventures to Infant Island alone later. The natives reveal to Fukuda the legend of Infant Island, with the mythology behind Infant Island including Christian-like overtones which feature two gods (Ajima, the God of Eternal Night and Ajiko, the Goddess of Daylight) conceiving a giant glowing egg, smaller eggs, and a pair of humans who reproduce and repopulate the island. The smaller eggs hatch caterpillars which turn into moths and fly away, which enrages Ajima to condemn all living things to death and commits suicide by tearing himself into four pieces. Heartbroken, Ajiko also commits suicide by also tearing herself into four pieces, which turn into four small, immortal fairies dedicated to serving Mothra of the giant glowing egg.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200927:26_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200927:26-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Fukuda remains on the island and is later awakened by Nelson's gunfire, witnessing Nelson kidnapping the Shobijin and the natives ritual.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200931:56_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200931:56-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Michiko was originally written as Chujo's assistant and the leader of a protest group that unsuccessfully pressures Nelson to release the Shobijin.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200943:39_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200943:39-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The original story featured political parallels to a then controversial ratification of a security treaty between Japan and the United States, however, Sekizawa omitted the political backdrop in his version.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200944:00_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200944:00-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The original story featured the Rolisican ambassador sending a fleet to protect Nelson and his property from Mothra.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200947:02_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200947:02-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>While adapting the story for the film, screenwriter Shinichi Sekizawa picked his favorite aspects of the story and ignored everything else. Sekizawa patterned his script after the original <i>King Kong</i> and <i>Godzilla</i> films. Sekizawa felt that too much detail will confuse audiences and that it was more important to keep audiences entertained, stating, "My philosophy is to just add enough to tell the story and keep it moving along." Honda later admitted that the fantasy elements were Sekizawa's ideas while Honda was interested in the anti-nuclear themes.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski2017173_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski2017173-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Originally, Hotta wanted to include an anti-discrimination message based on a person's size.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200931:22_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200931:22-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The original story featured four fairies. Sekizawa felt four was unnecessary and trimmed the members to two, feeling that two fairies was manageable.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200715:23_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200715:23-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The original story had the Shobijin stand at 60 centimeters but Sekizawa felt the size was too big and would create difficulties when building the sets.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200715:53_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200715:53-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of the original ideas had one of the Shobijin fall in love with one of the leads; however, Sekizawa dropped this idea because he felt it would have required many twists and turns and would have taken time away from Mothra.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200716:23_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200716:23-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Originally, Mothra was to cocoon herself on the <a href="/wiki/National_Diet_Building" title="National Diet Building">National Diet Building</a> but Sekizawa felt it wasn't "spectacular enough" and changed the setting to Tokyo Tower.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200716:47_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200716:47-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It was Sekizawa's decision to refer to the twins as "Shobijin" (small beauties), feeling that "small fairies from Infant Island" was too long to write.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200717:10_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200717:10-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sekizawa coined the name "Infant Island" simply because it "sounded good".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200717:21_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200717:21-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the United States, several promotional materials referred to the Shobijin as "Ailenas", despite Japanese publications and materials not using the term.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200717:48_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200717:48-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Honda explained that the name originated from the original story that featured a fairy named "Ailena". The name reached the publicity department for overseas markets.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200717:10_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200717:10-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Honda had originally written a scene that showed an area of the island bombed by the atomic bomb but due to budget costs, this scene was not filmed.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski2017178_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski2017178-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Music">Music</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mothra_(film)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Music"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The score was composed by <a href="/wiki/Y%C5%ABji_Koseki" title="Yūji Koseki">Yūji Koseki</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008183_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008183-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Akira_Ifukube" title="Akira Ifukube">Akira Ifukube</a> was originally given the offer to compose the film but declined, feeling he wasn't confident enough to create music for <a href="/wiki/The_Peanuts" title="The Peanuts">The Peanuts</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200746:10_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200746:10-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The lyrics for the Mothra theme were written in Japanese and translated into Indonesian at Tokyo University by an Indonesian exchange student.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200750:44_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200750:44-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The track "The Girls of Infant Island" was released as a single in 1961 while the track "Song of Mothra" was released as a single in 1978.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGodziszewski199499_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGodziszewski199499-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The track "Daughters of Infant Island" was co-written by the film's assistant director Koji Kajita.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski2017175_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski2017175-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Special_effects">Special effects</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mothra_(film)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Special effects"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Behind_the_Scenes_of_Mothra_1961.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Behind_the_Scenes_of_Mothra_1961.jpg/220px-Behind_the_Scenes_of_Mothra_1961.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Behind_the_Scenes_of_Mothra_1961.jpg/330px-Behind_the_Scenes_of_Mothra_1961.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Behind_the_Scenes_of_Mothra_1961.jpg/440px-Behind_the_Scenes_of_Mothra_1961.jpg 2x" data-file-width="768" data-file-height="1024" /></a><figcaption>The special effects crew preparing the miniature <a href="/wiki/Tokyo_Tower" title="Tokyo Tower">Tokyo Tower</a> for <a href="/wiki/Mothra" title="Mothra">Mothra</a>'s attack scene.</figcaption></figure> <p>The film's special effects were directed by <a href="/wiki/Eiji_Tsuburaya" title="Eiji Tsuburaya">Eiji Tsuburaya</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKalat201051_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKalat201051-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Peanuts filmed their scenes separately from the main cast. They filmed most of their scenes in front of a blue screen and oversized sets. Their scenes were later composited into the film. The Peanuts never interacted with the cast. Instead, dolls were used for the actors to interact with while a tape recorder with the Peanuts's lines was played back.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski2017175_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski2017175-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> New Kirk City was designed after Manhattan, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski2017176_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski2017176-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Honda originally intended to film second unit photography in Los Angeles but due to the budget inflating because of the New Kirk City scenes, Honda had to use library footage of L.A. freeways and beach fronts instead.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski2017178_33-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski2017178-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Honda also intended to show how the inhabitants of Infant Island survived a nuclear blast but budget cost forced him to use a bland cave instead. Honda wanted to create a type of mold for the island and asked the art department to create it but this idea was dropped due to budget costs.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski2017178_33-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski2017178-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Infant Island natives were portrayed by Japanese actors in dark makeup.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200931:10_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200931:10-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The live-action Dam footage was filmed in <a href="/wiki/Kurobe_Dam" title="Kurobe Dam">Kurobe Dam</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200955:05_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200955:05-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During a production meeting, Tsuburaya told the staff he wanted four water tanks to create the raging waters that breaks the dam. Tsuburaya's Chief Assistant Art Director instead built 12 tanks, which held 4,320 gallons of water.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200955:19_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200955:19-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The dam was built at a 1/50th scale and four meters high. The miniature mountains around the dam were built with concrete to withstand the pressure of the water, a decision that upset Tsuburaya due to being unable to move the set in order to set up cameras.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200955:51_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200955:51-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The dam was also designed to realistically crumble under the weight of the water but due to this, only a small amount of water came out during the first try. Three attempts were made to force the water out and the dam had to be weakened for the effect to succeed.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200956:39_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200956:39-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since Tsuburaya was unable to move the cameras, all three takes were edited together.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200957:40_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200957:40-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Several props of various scales were created for the caterpillar and adult Mothra, including one caterpillar prop used specifically for water scenes.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200951:54_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200951:54-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A giant suit was produced for the caterpillar Mothra, which allowed larger sets and details to be included.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:02:17_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:02:17-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The suit was the largest monster suit that Toho had ever produced. It was built at 1/25th scale, was seven meters long, and required five to six actors inside to move it. <a href="/wiki/Haruo_Nakajima" title="Haruo Nakajima">Haruo Nakajima</a> and <a href="/wiki/Katsumi_Tezuka" title="Katsumi Tezuka">Katsumi Tezuka</a> lead members of the special effects art staff inside the suit.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:03:42_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:03:42-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A hand-operated model of the caterpillar was also produced. The hand model had a more narrow, oval shape than the other models and had small legs at the bottom, a feature that other models lacked.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:04:29_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:04:29-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Tokyo Tower model was built by a metal works company. The tower model was built using blue prints by the Toho effects staff who photographed and researched the real tower. However, the blue prints only showed one side of the tower, which forced the metal works company to figure out the angles to build the other sides.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:05:41_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:05:41-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The effects staff had initially requested the original blueprints of Tokyo Tower but were unable to obtain them.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:06:37_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:06:37-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Toho closely guarded the custom tower model blueprints to keep competing studios from benefitting from Toho's work.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:06:44_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:06:44-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mothra's silk was created from a form of liquid styrofoam called "expanded <a href="/wiki/Polystyrene" title="Polystyrene">Polystyrene</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:08:00_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:08:00-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A small model and large model was built for the atomic ray cannon.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:12:16_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:12:16-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Three different models were built for the adult Mothra, each with different functions. A mid-sized model with more flexible wings was used for the hatching scene.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:14:59_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:14:59-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The mid-size model has a smaller thorax and the wingspan is shorter, compared to the other models.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:16:01_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:16:01-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The large model was built in 1/100th scale with a wingspan of 2.5 meters. Due to this, the wing movement was less flexible. The eyes were lit by lightbulbs from inside the head and the eyes were constructed from clear latex.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:16:09_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:16:09-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The smaller model was only used for extreme long shots of Mothra advancing on New Kirk City.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:16:28_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:16:28-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> To make the wings flap, the models were suspended on wires from an overhead motorized brace that would open and close. The wires were attached at the center of the wings rather than the tips, which allowed the wings to feely flap at the edges.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:16:35_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:16:35-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Alternate_ending">Alternate ending</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mothra_(film)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Alternate ending"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Filming_the_unused_ending_of_Mothra.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Filming_the_unused_ending_of_Mothra.jpg/220px-Filming_the_unused_ending_of_Mothra.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="156" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Filming_the_unused_ending_of_Mothra.jpg/330px-Filming_the_unused_ending_of_Mothra.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Filming_the_unused_ending_of_Mothra.jpg/440px-Filming_the_unused_ending_of_Mothra.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1520" data-file-height="1080" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Ishir%C5%8D_Honda" title="Ishirō Honda">Ishirō Honda</a> directing the unused alternative ending</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Toho" title="Toho">Toho</a> had deemed Mothra's attack on New Kirk City too expensive and advised Honda and Sekizawa to write a more budget friendly climax. The new ending had Nelson and his crew take Shinji hostage near a volcano, which Nelson falls into after Mothra flaps her wings. Toho's contract with <a href="/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" title="Columbia Pictures">Columbia Pictures</a> stipulated that the climax needed to take place in an American-style city. Toho sent a letter to Columbia Pictures requesting approval to change the climax but rather than wait for a reply, Toho instructed Honda to proceed with principal photography as planned. The new ending was the first scene to be filmed in Kagoshima Prefecture near Mount Kirishima. However, around the same time, Columbia Pictures denied Toho's request for alterations. Surviving images of the alternate ending appeared in official publicity materials; however, the footage was never developed. While filming the alternate ending, the Nelson dummy used to be plunged into the volcano was later found by locals, who believed it to be a suicide. Authorities retrieved the "body", which led to Honda and his crew to be "roundly scolded".<sup id="cite_ref-A_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-A-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski2017177-178_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski2017177-178-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Release">Release</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mothra_(film)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Release"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Marketing">Marketing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mothra_(film)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Marketing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" title="Columbia Pictures">Columbia Pictures</a>' trailer did not reveal Mothra and mainly focused on the Shobijin and their mysterious link to Mothra.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200952:53_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200952:53-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The synopsis used for the film's American press book was based on the original story rather than the final film, with the summary referring to the Shobijin as the "Ailenas". Columbia's press book advised theater owners to add police or armed services and a weapons display in the lobby with the caption, "These weapons couldn't stop Mothra!", put signs on construction sites with the caption, "Mothra was here!", send two attractive street valley girls in abbreviated space suits through the main business district and school vicinities with signs on their backs reading, "Mothra, the world's most fantastic love story!", and arrange a display of radioactive materials with a Geiger counter in the lobby to emphasize Mothra's power.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200953:11_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200953:11-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Theatrical">Theatrical</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mothra_(film)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Theatrical"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Mothra</i> was released in Japan on July 30, 1961, where it was distributed by <a href="/wiki/Toho" title="Toho">Toho</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERagone200763_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERagone200763-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The film was ranked 10th place in Kinema Junpo's annual box office tally.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski2017178_33-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski2017178-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The film was released by Columbia Pictures with an English dub produced by <a href="/wiki/Titra_Studios" title="Titra Studios">Titra Studios</a> on May 10, 1962.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008183_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008183-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Columbia released <i>Mothra</i> on a double-bill with <i><a href="/wiki/The_Three_Stooges_in_Orbit" title="The Three Stooges in Orbit">The Three Stooges in Orbit</a></i> in some markets.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:26:43_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:26:43-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The American version runs at 90 minutes.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008184_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008184-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Columbia acquired the North American rights to the film during pre-production.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski2017176_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski2017176-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The film has been re-released theatrically in Japan since its release. This includes a shorter version of the film distributed by Toho with a 62-minute running time on December 14, 1974.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008299_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008299-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This version was edited by Ishiro Honda.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008299_64-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008299-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Mothra</i> was re-released theatrically in Japan on November 21, 1982, as part of Toho's 50th anniversary.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008375_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008375-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Hiroshi_Koizumi" title="Hiroshi Koizumi">Hiroshi Koizumi</a> believes the success of the film was attributed to the Peanuts' involvement, due to the twins being popular at the time of the film's release.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200925:03_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200925:03-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Critical_response">Critical response</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mothra_(film)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Critical response"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On <a href="/wiki/Review_aggregator" title="Review aggregator">review aggregator</a> <a href="/wiki/Rotten_Tomatoes" title="Rotten Tomatoes">Rotten Tomatoes</a>, the film has an approval rating of 80% based on 15 reviews, with an average rating of 5.8/10.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Film critic A. H. Weiler in <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> gave the film a generally positive review, singling out the color and special effects for praise. "There's that color, as pretty as can be, that now and then smites the eye with some genuinely artistic panoramas and décor designs."<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hazel Flynn of the <i>Los Angeles Citizen News</i> stated, "the sight of the huge flying monster flapping its wings is one of the most impressive special effects I've ever encountered."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:27:16_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:27:16-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Boxoffice" class="mw-redirect" title="Boxoffice">Boxoffice</a></i> magazine called the film "one of the best of its kind."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:27:34_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:27:34-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A reviewer for <i><a href="/wiki/Variety_(magazine)" title="Variety (magazine)">Variety</a></i> called the film "ludicrous" and "haphazardly executed", stating, "the post-dubbed film is too awkward in dramatic construction and crude in histrionic style to score appreciably at the box office."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:27:48_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:27:48-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Home_media">Home media</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mothra_(film)&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Home media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2009, the Japanese and American versions of <i>Mothra</i> were released on DVD by <a href="/wiki/Sony_Pictures_Home_Entertainment" title="Sony Pictures Home Entertainment">Sony Pictures Home Entertainment</a> through their <i>Icons of Sci-fi: Toho Collection</i> set.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2019, Mill Creek Entertainment released the Japanese and American versions on a steelbook Blu-ray, under licence from Sony.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mothra_(film)&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1961, Frankie Sakai and a Mothra prop made a cameo appearance in <i>Cheers, Mr. Awamori</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200932:20_74-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200932:20-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Author Steve Ryfle notes that <i>The Song of Mothra</i> has become a pop culture reference, stating, "even many people who've never seen this movie seem to have heard the song."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200935:42_75-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200935:42-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Between 1996 and 1998, Toho produced a trilogy of Mothra films for a family friendly audience.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mothra_(film)&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_films_featuring_miniature_people" title="List of films featuring miniature people">List of films featuring miniature people</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mothra_(film)&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mothra_(film)&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008183-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008183_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008183_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008183_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008183_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008183_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> 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id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200946:28-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200946:28_11-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2009">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2009</a>, 46:28.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEGodziszewski199499-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGodziszewski199499_12-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGodziszewski199499_12-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFGodziszewski1994">Godziszewski 1994</a>, p. 99.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski2017175-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski2017175_13-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski2017175_13-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski2017175_13-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2017">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2017</a>, p. 175.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200918:40-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200918:40_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2009">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2009</a>, 18:40.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200918:50-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200918:50_15-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2009">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2009</a>, 18:50.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:12:35-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:12:35_16-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2009">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2009</a>, 01:12:35.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200918:16-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200918:16_17-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2009">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2009</a>, 18:16.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200933:44-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200933:44_18-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2009">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2009</a>, 33:44.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200947:49-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200947:49_19-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2009">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2009</a>, 47:49.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200927:26-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200927:26_20-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2009">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2009</a>, 27:26.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200931:56-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200931:56_21-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2009">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2009</a>, 31:56.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200943:39-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200943:39_22-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2009">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2009</a>, 43:39.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200944:00-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200944:00_23-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2009">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2009</a>, 44:00.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200947:02-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200947:02_24-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2009">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2009</a>, 47:02.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200931:22-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200931:22_25-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2009">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2009</a>, 31:22.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200715:23-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200715:23_26-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2007">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2007</a>, 15:23.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200715:53-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200715:53_27-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2007">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2007</a>, 15:53.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200716:23-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200716:23_28-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2007">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2007</a>, 16:23.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200716:47-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200716:47_29-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2007">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2007</a>, 16:47.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200717:10-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200717:10_30-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200717:10_30-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2007">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2007</a>, 17:10.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200717:21-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200717:21_31-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2007">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2007</a>, 17:21.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200717:48-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200717:48_32-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2007">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2007</a>, 17:48.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski2017178-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski2017178_33-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski2017178_33-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski2017178_33-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski2017178_33-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2017">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2017</a>, p. 178.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200746:10-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200746:10_34-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2007">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2007</a>, 46:10.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200750:44-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200750:44_35-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2007">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2007</a>, 50:44.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEKalat201051-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKalat201051_36-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFKalat2010">Kalat 2010</a>, p. 51.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200931:10-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200931:10_37-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2009">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2009</a>, 31:10.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200955:05-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200955:05_38-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2009">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2009</a>, 55:05.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200955:19-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200955:19_39-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2009">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2009</a>, 55:19.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200955:51-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200955:51_40-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2009">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2009</a>, 55:51.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200956:39-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200956:39_41-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2009">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2009</a>, 56:39.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200957:40-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200957:40_42-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2009">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2009</a>, 57:40.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200951:54-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200951:54_43-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2009">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2009</a>, 51:54.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:02:17-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:02:17_44-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2009">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2009</a>, 01:02:17.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:03:42-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:03:42_45-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2009">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2009</a>, 01:03:42.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:04:29-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:04:29_46-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2009">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2009</a>, 01:04:29.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:05:41-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:05:41_47-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2009">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2009</a>, 01:05:41.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:06:37-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:06:37_48-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2009">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2009</a>, 01:06:37.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:06:44-49"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:06:44_49-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2009">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2009</a>, 01:06:44.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:08:00-50"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:08:00_50-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2009">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2009</a>, 01:08:00.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:12:16-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:12:16_51-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2009">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2009</a>, 01:12:16.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:14:59-52"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a 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href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2009">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2009</a>, 01:16:28.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:16:35-56"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:16:35_56-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2009">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2009</a>, 01:16:35.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-A-57"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-A_57-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Memories of Ishiro Honda. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 21,</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Screen%3A+%27Hatari%21%27+Captures+the+Drama+of+Tanganyika+Wildlife%3AHoward+Hawks+Film+Opens+at+DeMille+Neighborhood+Houses+Offer+2+Twin+Bills&rft.date=1962-07-12&rft.aulast=Weiler&rft.aufirst=A.H.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F1962%2F07%2F12%2Farchives%2Fscreen-hatari-captures-the-drama-of-tanganyika-wildlifehoward-hawks.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMothra+%28film%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:27:16-69"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:27:16_69-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2009">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2009</a>, 01:27:16.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:27:34-70"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:27:34_70-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2009">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2009</a>, 01:27:34.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:27:48-71"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERyfleGodziszewski200901:27:48_71-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRyfleGodziszewski2009">Ryfle & Godziszewski 2009</a>, 01:27:48.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-72"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-72">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.tohokingdom.com/dvd/icons_sci-fi_toho_sony.htm">"DVD: Icons of Sci-fi: Toho Collection (Sony)"</a>. <i>tohokingdom.com</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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href="/wiki/Rebirth_of_Mothra_III" title="Rebirth of Mothra III">Rebirth of Mothra III</a></i> (1998)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">with <a href="/wiki/Godzilla" title="Godzilla">Godzilla</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Mothra_vs._Godzilla" title="Mothra vs. Godzilla">Mothra vs. Godzilla</a></i> (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ghidorah,_the_Three-Headed_Monster" title="Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster">Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster</a></i> (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ebirah,_Horror_of_the_Deep" title="Ebirah, Horror of the Deep">Ebirah, Horror of the Deep</a></i> (1966)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Destroy_All_Monsters" title="Destroy All Monsters">Destroy All Monsters</a></i> (1968)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Godzilla_vs._Mothra" title="Godzilla vs. Mothra">Godzilla vs. Mothra</a></i> (1992)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Godzilla,_Mothra_and_King_Ghidorah:_Giant_Monsters_All-Out_Attack" title="Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack">Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack</a></i> (2001)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Godzilla:_Tokyo_S.O.S." title="Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.">Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.</a></i> (2003)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Godzilla:_Final_Wars" title="Godzilla: Final Wars">Godzilla: Final Wars</a></i> (2004)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Godzilla:_King_of_the_Monsters_(2019_film)" title="Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019 film)">Godzilla: King of the Monsters</a></i> (2019)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Godzilla_x_Kong:_The_New_Empire" title="Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire">Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire</a></i> (2024)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" 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href="/wiki/Template_talk:Ishir%C5%8D_Honda" title="Template talk:Ishirō Honda"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Ishir%C5%8D_Honda" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Ishirō Honda"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Ishirō_Honda" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Ishir%C5%8D_Honda" title="Ishirō Honda">Ishirō Honda</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Films</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Director</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Aoi_Shinju" title="Aoi Shinju">Aoi Shinju</a></i> (1951)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Nangoku_no_hada" title="Nangoku no hada">Nangoku no hada</a></i> (1952)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Man_Who_Came_to_Port" title="The Man Who Came to Port">The Man Who Came to Port</a></i> (1952)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Adolescence_Part_II" title="Adolescence Part II">Adolescence Part II</a></i> (1953)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Eagle_of_the_Pacific" title="Eagle of the Pacific">Eagle of the Pacific</a></i> (1953)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Farewell_Rabaul" title="Farewell Rabaul">Farewell Rabaul</a></i> (1954)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Godzilla_(1954_film)" title="Godzilla (1954 film)">Godzilla</a></i> (1954)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lovetide" title="Lovetide">Lovetide</a></i> (1955)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Oen-san" title="Oen-san">Oen-san</a></i> (1955)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Half_Human" title="Half Human">Half Human</a></i> (1955)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Wakai_ki" title="Wakai ki">Wakai ki</a></i> (1956)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Night_School_(1956_film)" title="Night School (1956 film)">Night School</a></i> (1956)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/T%C5%8Dky%C5%8D_no_hito_say%C5%8Dnara" title="Tōkyō no hito sayōnara">Tōkyō no hito sayōnara</a></i> (1956)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rodan_(film)" title="Rodan (film)">Rodan</a></i> (1956)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Be_Happy,_These_Two_Lovers" title="Be Happy, These Two Lovers">Be Happy, These Two Lovers</a></i> (1957)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Teapicker%27s_Song_of_Goodbye" title="A Teapicker's Song of Goodbye">A Teapicker's Song of Goodbye</a></i> (1957)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Rainbow_Plays_in_My_Heart" title="A Rainbow Plays in My Heart">A Rainbow Plays in My Heart</a></i> (1957)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Farewell_to_the_Woman_Called_My_Sister" title="A Farewell to the Woman Called My Sister">A Farewell to the Woman Called My Sister</a></i> (1957)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Mysterians" title="The Mysterians">The Mysterians</a></i> (1957)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Song_for_a_Bride" title="Song for a Bride">Song for a Bride</a></i> (1958)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_H-Man" title="The H-Man">The H-Man</a></i> (1958)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Varan_the_Unbelievable" title="Varan the Unbelievable">Varan the Unbelievable</a></i> (1958)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Battle_in_Outer_Space" title="Battle in Outer Space">Battle in Outer Space</a></i> (1959)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Human_Vapor" title="The Human Vapor">The Human Vapor</a></i> (1960)</li> <li><i><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Mothra</a></i> (1961)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gorath" title="Gorath">Gorath</a></i> (1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/King_Kong_vs._Godzilla" title="King Kong vs. Godzilla">King Kong vs. Godzilla</a></i> (1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Matango" title="Matango">Matango</a></i> (1963)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Atragon" title="Atragon">Atragon</a></i> (1963)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mothra_vs._Godzilla" title="Mothra vs. Godzilla">Mothra vs. Godzilla</a></i> (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dogora" title="Dogora">Dogora</a></i> (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ghidorah,_the_Three-Headed_Monster" title="Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster">Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster</a></i> (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Frankenstein_vs._Baragon" title="Frankenstein vs. Baragon">Frankenstein vs. Baragon</a></i> (1965)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Invasion_of_Astro-Monster" title="Invasion of Astro-Monster">Invasion of Astro-Monster</a></i> (1965)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_War_of_the_Gargantuas" title="The War of the Gargantuas">The War of the Gargantuas</a></i> (1966)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Come_Marry_Me" title="Come Marry Me">Come Marry Me</a></i> (1966)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/King_Kong_Escapes" title="King Kong Escapes">King Kong Escapes</a></i> (1967)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Destroy_All_Monsters" title="Destroy All Monsters">Destroy All Monsters</a></i> (1968)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Latitude_Zero_(film)" title="Latitude Zero (film)">Latitude Zero</a></i> (1969)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/All_Monsters_Attack" title="All Monsters Attack">All Monsters Attack</a></i> (1969)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Space_Amoeba" title="Space Amoeba">Space Amoeba</a></i> (1970)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Terror_of_Mechagodzilla" title="Terror of Mechagodzilla">Terror of Mechagodzilla</a></i> (1975)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Assistant director</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Three_Sisters_with_Maiden_Hearts" title="Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts">Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts</a></i> (1935)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Humanity_and_Paper_Balloons" title="Humanity and Paper Balloons">Humanity and Paper Balloons</a></i> (1937)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Chocolate_and_Soldiers" title="Chocolate and Soldiers">Chocolate and Soldiers</a></i> (1938)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Horse_(1941_film)" title="Horse (1941 film)">Uma</a></i> (1941)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kato_hayabusa_sento-tai" title="Kato hayabusa sento-tai">Colonel Kato's Falcon Squadron</a></i> (1944)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Stray_Dog_(film)" title="Stray Dog (film)">Stray Dog</a></i> (1949)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Akatsuki_no_Dass%C5%8D" title="Akatsuki no Dassō">Escape at Dawn</a></i> (1950)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Miscellaneous</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Godzilla,_King_of_the_Monsters!" title="Godzilla, King of the Monsters!">Godzilla, King of the Monsters!</a></i> (1956)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kagemusha" title="Kagemusha">Kagemusha</a></i> (1980)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ran_(film)" title="Ran (film)">Ran</a></i> (1985)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Discarnates" title="The Discarnates">The Discarnates</a></i> (1988)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dreams_(1990_film)" title="Dreams (1990 film)">Dreams</a></i> (1990)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rhapsody_in_August" title="Rhapsody in August">Rhapsody in August</a></i> (1991)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Madadayo" title="Madadayo">Madadayo</a></i> (1993)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Samurai_Kids" title="Samurai Kids">Samurai Kids</a></i> (1993)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rebirth_of_Mothra" title="Rebirth of Mothra">Rebirth of Mothra</a></i> (1996)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Television</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Director" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Director</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Return_of_Ultraman" title="Return of Ultraman">Return of Ultraman</a></i> (1971-1972)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mirrorman" title="Mirrorman">Mirrorman</a></i> (1971-1972)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Thunder_Mask" title="Thunder Mask">Thunder Mask</a></i> (1972-1973)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Zone_Fighter" title="Zone Fighter">Zone Fighter</a></i> (1973)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Eiji_Tsuburaya" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Eiji_Tsuburaya" title="Template:Eiji Tsuburaya"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Eiji_Tsuburaya" title="Template talk:Eiji Tsuburaya"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Eiji_Tsuburaya" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Eiji Tsuburaya"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Eiji_Tsuburaya" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Eiji_Tsuburaya" title="Eiji Tsuburaya">Eiji Tsuburaya</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Eiji_Tsuburaya_filmography" title="Eiji Tsuburaya filmography">Films</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Special effects director</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Princess_Kaguya_(1935_film)" title="Princess Kaguya (1935 film)">Princess Kaguya</a></i> (1935)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Daughter_of_the_Samurai" title="The Daughter of the Samurai">The Daughter of the Samurai</a></i> (1937)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Abe_Clan_(1938_film)" title="The Abe Clan (1938 film)">The Abe Clan</a></i> (1938)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Moyuru_%C5%8Dzora" title="Moyuru ōzora">The Burning Sky</a></i> (1940)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_War_at_Sea_from_Hawaii_to_Malaya" title="The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya">The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya</a></i> (1942)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ahen_senso" title="Ahen senso">The Opium War</a></i> (1943)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ano_hata_o_ute" title="Ano hata o ute">Fire on that Flag!</a></i> (1944)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kato_hayabusa_sento-tai" title="Kato hayabusa sento-tai">General Kato's Falcon Fighters</a></i> (1944)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Minsh%C5%AB_no_Teki" title="Minshū no Teki">An Enemy of the People</a></i> (1946)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Thousand_and_One_Nights_with_Toho" title="A Thousand and One Nights with Toho">A Thousand and One Nights with Toho</a></i> (1947)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gate_of_Flesh#Other_versions" title="Gate of Flesh">Gate of Flesh</a></i> (1948)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Invisible_Man_Appears" title="The Invisible Man Appears">The Invisible Man Appears</a></i> (1949)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Akatsuki_no_Dass%C5%8D" title="Akatsuki no Dassō">Escape at Dawn</a></i> (1950)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Listen_to_the_Voices_of_the_Sea" title="Listen to the Voices of the Sea">Listen to the Voices of the Sea</a></i> (1950)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Lady_of_Musashino" title="The Lady of Musashino">The Lady of Musashino</a></i> (1951)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Skin_of_the_South" class="mw-redirect" title="The Skin of the South">The Skin of the South</a></i> (1952)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Man_Who_Came_to_Port" title="The Man Who Came to Port">The Man Who Came to Port</a></i> (1952)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Anatahan_(film)" title="Anatahan (film)">Anatahan</a></i> (1953)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Eagle_of_the_Pacific" title="Eagle of the Pacific">Eagle of the Pacific</a></i> (1953)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Farewell_Rabaul" title="Farewell Rabaul">Farewell Rabaul</a></i> (1954)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Samurai_I:_Musashi_Miyamoto" title="Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto">Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto</a></i> (1954)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Godzilla_(1954_film)" title="Godzilla (1954 film)">Godzilla</a></i> (1954)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Invisible_Avenger" title="The Invisible Avenger">The Invisible Avenger</a></i> (1954)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Godzilla_Raids_Again" title="Godzilla Raids Again">Godzilla Raids Again</a></i> (1955)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Half_Human" title="Half Human">Half Human</a></i> (1955)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rangiku_monogatari" title="Rangiku monogatari">The Maiden Courtesan</a></i> (1956)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Legend_of_the_White_Serpent_(film)" title="The Legend of the White Serpent (film)">The Legend of the White Serpent</a></i> (1956)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rodan_(film)" title="Rodan (film)">Rodan</a></i> (1956)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Throne_of_Blood" title="Throne of Blood">Throne of Blood</a></i> (1957)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Mysterians" title="The Mysterians">The Mysterians</a></i> (1957)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_H-Man" title="The H-Man">The H-Man</a></i> (1958)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Varan_the_Unbelievable" title="Varan the Unbelievable">Varan the Unbelievable</a></i> (1958)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Hidden_Fortress" title="The Hidden Fortress">The Hidden Fortress</a></i> (1958)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Monkey_Sun" title="Monkey Sun">Monkey Sun</a></i> (1959)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Submarine_I-57_Will_Not_Surrender" title="Submarine I-57 Will Not Surrender">Submarine I-57 Will Not Surrender</a></i> (1959)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Three_Treasures" title="The Three Treasures">The Three Treasures</a></i> (1959)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Battle_in_Outer_Space" title="Battle in Outer Space">Battle in Outer Space</a></i> (1959)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Secret_of_the_Telegian" title="The Secret of the Telegian">The Secret of the Telegian</a></i> (1960)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Storm_Over_the_Pacific" title="Storm Over the Pacific">Storm Over the Pacific</a></i> (1960)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Human_Vapor" title="The Human Vapor">The Human Vapor</a></i> (1960)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Story_of_Osaka_Castle" title="The Story of Osaka Castle">The Story of Osaka Castle</a></i> (1961)</li> <li><i><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Mothra</a></i> (1961)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Last_War_(film)" title="The Last War (film)">The Last War</a></i> (1961)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gorath" title="Gorath">Gorath</a></i> (1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Big_Wave_(film)" title="The Big Wave (film)">The Big Wave</a></i> (1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/King_Kong_vs._Godzilla" title="King Kong vs. Godzilla">King Kong vs. Godzilla</a></i> (1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ch%C5%ABshingura:_Hana_no_Maki,_Yuki_no_Maki" title="Chūshingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki">Chūshingura</a></i> (1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Attack_Squadron!" title="Attack Squadron!">Attack Squadron!</a></i> (1963)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Love_Eterne" title="The Love Eterne">The Love Eterne</a></i> (1963)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Legacy_of_the_500,000" title="Legacy of the 500,000">Legacy of the 500,000</a></i> (1963)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Matango" title="Matango">Matango</a></i> (1963)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Lost_World_of_Sinbad" title="The Lost World of Sinbad">The Lost World of Sinbad</a></i> (1963)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Atragon" title="Atragon">Atragon</a></i> (1963)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Whirlwind_(1964_film)" title="Whirlwind (1964 film)">Whirlwind</a></i> (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mothra_vs._Godzilla" title="Mothra vs. Godzilla">Mothra vs. Godzilla</a></i> (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dogora" title="Dogora">Dogora</a></i> (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ghidorah,_the_Three-Headed_Monster" title="Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster">Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster</a></i> (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/None_but_the_Brave" title="None but the Brave">None but the Brave</a></i> (1965)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Frankenstein_vs._Baragon" title="Frankenstein vs. Baragon">Frankenstein vs. Baragon</a></i> (1965)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Crazy_Adventure" class="mw-redirect" title="Crazy Adventure">The Crazy Adventure</a></i> (1965)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Invasion_of_Astro-Monster" title="Invasion of Astro-Monster">Invasion of Astro-Monster</a></i> (1965)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_War_of_the_Gargantuas" title="The War of the Gargantuas">The War of the Gargantuas</a></i> (1966)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ebirah,_Horror_of_the_Deep" title="Ebirah, Horror of the Deep">Ebirah, Horror of the Deep</a></i> (1966)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/King_Kong_Escapes" title="King Kong Escapes">King Kong Escapes</a></i> (1967)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ultraman:_Monster_Movie_Feature" title="Ultraman: Monster Movie Feature">Ultraman: Monster Movie Feature</a></i> (1967)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Son_of_Godzilla" title="Son of Godzilla">Son of Godzilla</a></i> (1967)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Destroy_All_Monsters" title="Destroy All Monsters">Destroy All Monsters</a></i> (1968)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Admiral_Yamamoto_(film)" title="Admiral Yamamoto (film)">Admiral Yamamoto</a></i> (1968)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Samurai_Banners" title="Samurai Banners">Samurai Banners</a></i> (1969)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Latitude_Zero_(film)" title="Latitude Zero (film)">Latitude Zero</a></i> (1969)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Japan_Sea_(film)" title="Battle of the Japan Sea (film)">Battle of the Japan Sea</a></i> (1969)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/All_Monsters_Attack" title="All Monsters Attack">All Monsters Attack</a></i> (1969)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Miscellaneous</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Page_of_Madness" title="A Page of Madness">A Page of Madness</a></i> (1926)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Princess_Kaguya_(1935_film)" title="Princess Kaguya (1935 film)">Princess Kaguya</a></i> (1935)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Across_the_Equator" title="Across the Equator">Across the Equator</a></i> (1936)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Invisible_Avenger" title="The Invisible Avenger">Invisible Man</a></i> (1954)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Samurai_Banners" title="Samurai Banners">Samurai Banners</a></i> (1969)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Monster_Seafood_Wars" title="Monster Seafood Wars">Monster Seafood Wars</a></i> (2020) [posthumous]</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Television</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Mighty_Atom_(TV_series)" title="Mighty Atom (TV series)">Mighty Atom</a></i> (1959–1960)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ultra_Q" title="Ultra Q">Ultra Q</a></i> (1966)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ultraman_(1966_TV_series)" title="Ultraman (1966 TV series)">Ultraman</a></i> (1966–1967)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kaiju_Booska" title="Kaiju Booska">Booska the Friendly Beast</a></i> (1966–1967)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ultraseven" title="Ultraseven">Ultraseven</a></i> (1967–1968)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mighty_Jack" title="Mighty Jack">Mighty Jack</a></i> (1968)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mighty_Jack#Fight!_Mighty_Jack" title="Mighty Jack">Fight! Mighty Jack</a></i> (1968)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Horror_Theater_Unbalance" title="Horror Theater Unbalance">Horror Theater Unbalance</a></i> (1973)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Miscellaneous</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tsuburaya_Productions" title="Tsuburaya Productions">Tsuburaya Productions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toho" title="Toho">Toho</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ultraman" title="Ultraman">Ultraman</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Godzilla_(franchise)" title="Godzilla (franchise)">Godzilla</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hajime_Tsuburaya" title="Hajime Tsuburaya">Hajime Tsuburaya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Noboru_Tsuburaya" title="Noboru Tsuburaya">Noboru Tsuburaya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akira_Tsuburaya" title="Akira Tsuburaya">Akira Tsuburaya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hiroshi_Tsuburaya" title="Hiroshi Tsuburaya">Hiroshi Tsuburaya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A%C5%8Dd%C5%8D_Denzen" title="Aōdō Denzen">Aōdō Denzen</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>    </div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; 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