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All movies seen on 11/06/2019

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Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)

Directed by Ishirō Honda

Action | Science Fiction

Most recently watched by sensoria, Javitron

Overview

A submarine expedition to salvage the remains of Mechagodzilla is thwarted by a massive dinosaur named Titanosaurus. An Interpol investigation leads biologist Ichinose to uncover the work of Dr. Mafune and his mysterious daughter Katsura. Aligned with the Black Hole Aliens, Katsura’s life becomes entwined with the resurrected machine.

Rated G | Length 83 minutes

Actors

Katsuhiko Sasaki | Tomoko Ai | Akihiko Hirata | Tadao Nakamaru | Goro Mutsumi | Masaaki Daimon | Katsumasa Uchida | Shin Roppongi | Tôru Ibuki | Kenji Sahara | Kotaro Tomita | Ikio Sawamura | Kazuo Suzuki | Yoshio Kirishima | Masayoshi Kikuchi | Takuya Yuki | Jun Nishihara | Akinori Umezu | Shizuko Azuma | Toshihiko Furuta | Takuzô Kumagai | Toru Kawai | Ise Mori | Tatsumi Nikamoto | Tomoe Mari | Yasuzô Ogawa | Hiroya Morita | Shôichi Hirose | Haruo Suzuki | Saburô Kadowaki | Shigeo Katô | Kazuo Imai | Toshio Hosoi

Viewing History (seen 7 times)

Viewing Notes

Surprised I have only logged this film twice before this viewing. Thought I had for sure seen this 3 or 4 times like the other Honda films. Really odd given that I met Tomoko Ai at G-Fest and surely would’ve viewed this around that time. Need to look up the year that was bc they usually would screen the movie that featured the guests.

So I checked and it was G-Fest 2014 when Tomoko Ai was a guest and that’s the year I did the 60th Anniversary Godzilla marathon viewing of all the movies. I viewed this movie a couple months before G-Fest so it was fresh in my memory at that time when I met Tomoko. G-Fest did not screen the movie likely due to Toho restrictions on Showa era films at the time. Therefore it’s possible that really was the last time I viewed this film according to my log here. Makes sense but just doesn’t feel like it was 5 years since I’ve seen this.

This, the last of the Showa films, is probably the most like a Greek Tragedy of all those films. The loss of Mafune’s daughter only to be rebuilt by the aliens into this sad machine forced to control Titansaurus. Then to be under the thumb of the aliens and ultimately sacrifice herself after rediscovering her humanity and finally be loved again. Very emotional scene at the end.

Honda took a lot a flack for this movie but outside of the original Godzilla film, this is probably the most emotion heavy of his run and a fine way to conclude the era.

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