Godzilla vs. Gigan is a 1972 Japanese kaiju film directed by Jun Fukuda, written by Shinichi Sekizawa, and produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka, with special effects by Teruyoshi Nakano. Distributed by Toho and produced under their effects-based subsidiary Toho-Eizo, it is the 12th film in the Godzilla franchise, and features the fictional monster characters Godzilla, Gigan, Anguirus, and King Ghidorah. The film stars Hiroshi Ishikawa, Yuriko Hishimi, Tomoko Umeda, and Minoru Takashima, alongside Haruo Nakajima as Godzilla, Kenpachiro Satsuma as Gigan, Koetsu Omiya as Anguirus, and Kanta Ina as King Ghidorah. It is the last film in which Godzilla was portrayed by Nakajima after playing the character since the original 1954 film; he subsequently retired from suit acting.
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The humans are at it again, this time they attract more aliens who have decided that the humans are literally destroying the Earth, so they’ve come to take over and make peace by putting the humans in their place. Of course, the actual humans have no idea that about this plot, as the aliens have built themselves a corporate empire to work out of and hire humans to do their dirty work with them ever knowing. Except for a couple of outsiders who’s brother has been kidnaped. Because that happened.
What does happen is that Godzilla and Anguirus are summoned from Monster Island to fight King Ghidorah and Gigan, a mechanized flying monster with a saw blade in it’s belly. Yeah, Gigan is hella creepy. The monsters battle it out between themselves while the aliens get their laser ready (do all villains have lasers?). Our human friend group have this all figured out though and thwart the use of the laser, which eventually leads to Godzilla and Anguirus successfully fighting off the space monsters.
Like the last movie in the Godzilla series, this move too plays host to the environment and how humans are treating it. Space aliens are brought in as a catalyst, but Godzilla is left to fight the battle for the humans again. It’s a two on two fight between the Earth Monsters and the Space Monsters, similar to the original movie with King Ghidorah featuring Rodan as Godzilla’s battle partner.
The battle strategy is different as neither Godzilla nor Anguirus can fly and both King Ghidorah and Gigan (being mechanized) are very good at it. It’s an interesting battle sequence that’s different from previous movies and it’s fun to watch. It’s a fun watch for monster movie fans.
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