[ Godzilla ]
edited 2026-05-22A complete viewing order for the Toho Godzilla franchise — all 29 Toho theatrical films across four production eras (Showa, Heisei, Millennium, Reiwa), plus the 1998 TriStar reimagining and the Netflix anime Godzilla: Singular Point. Includes a release-order view and per-era timeline variants so viewers can pick a self-contained continuity.
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1954Ishirō Honda's 1954 original, the film that founded the kaiju genre. Japanese fishing vessels are mysteriously destroyed near Odo Island, an…
1h 36m›02FILM
1955The 1955 direct sequel directed by Motoyoshi Oda, rushed into production six months after the original's success. Two pilots for an Osaka fi…
1h 22m›03FILM
1962The 1962 crossover directed by Ishirō Honda, produced for Toho's 30th anniversary in partnership with RKO Pictures. A Japanese pharmaceutica…
1h 37m›04FILM
1964The 1964 fifth film directed by Ishirō Honda, released the same year as Mothra vs. Godzilla. A meteorite landing in Japan releases King Ghid…
1h 32m›05FILM
1964The 1964 fourth film directed by Ishirō Honda, bringing Toho's giant moth deity Mothra into the Godzilla series after her 1961 solo debut. A…
1h 29m›06FILM
1965The 1965 sixth film directed by Ishirō Honda, also known as Monster Zero. Astronauts (Akira Takarada and Nick Adams) on a mission to a newly…
1h 36m›07FILM
1966The 1966 seventh film directed by Jun Fukuda, the first Godzilla film without Ishirō Honda as director. A young man searching for his lost b…
1h 27m›08FILM
1967The 1967 eighth film directed by Jun Fukuda, set on a remote tropical island where a UN weather experiment goes wrong. The experiment causes…
1h 26m›09FILM
1968The 1968 ninth film directed by Ishirō Honda, intended at the time as the final Godzilla film and produced as a kaiju all-star epic. In 1999…
1h 29m›10FILM
1969The 1969 tenth film directed by Ishirō Honda and Teruyoshi Nakano, a low-budget children's film told from the perspective of a bullied latch…
1h 10m›11FILM
1971The 1971 eleventh film directed by Yoshimitsu Banno, an environmental allegory featuring the smog-monster Hedorah. The creature is born from…
1h 25m›12FILM
1972The 1972 twelfth film directed by Jun Fukuda. Aliens from a dying planet, disguised as humans running a children's theme park near Mount Fuj…
1h 29m›13FILM
1973The 1973 thirteenth film directed by Jun Fukuda. Underground nuclear tests anger the lost civilization of Seatopia, which unleashes the beet…
1h 21m›14FILM
1974The 1974 fourteenth film directed by Jun Fukuda, produced for the franchise's 20th anniversary. Black Hole alien apes from the third planet…
1h 24m›15FILM
1975The 1975 fifteenth and final Showa film, directed by Ishirō Honda — his return to the franchise after a seven-year absence. The Black Hole a…
1h 23m›16FILM
1984The 1984 series reboot directed by Kōji Hashimoto, returning the franchise to a darker, more serious tone after a nine-year hiatus. A new Go…
1h 43m›17FILM
1989The 1989 second Heisei film directed by Kazuki Ōmori, set five years after The Return of Godzilla. A biotech researcher (Kōji Takahashi) spl…
1h 45m›18FILM
1991The 1991 third Heisei film directed by Kazuki Ōmori, introducing time travel to the franchise. Visitors from the 23rd century travel to 1944…
1h 43m›19FILM
1992The 1992 fourth Heisei film directed by Takao Ōkawara, reintroducing Mothra and her shadow counterpart Battra. A meteor strike awakens a gia…
1h 42m›20FILM
1993The 1993 fifth Heisei film directed by Takao Ōkawara. The UN Godzilla Countermeasures Center constructs Mechagodzilla using salvaged Futuria…
1h 48m›21FILM
1994The 1994 sixth Heisei film directed by Kenshō Yamashita. Godzilla cells carried into space (either by Biollante or Mothra) interact with a b…
1h 48m›22FILM
1995The 1995 seventh and final Heisei film directed by Takao Ōkawara, designed to close out the continuity with Godzilla's death. Godzilla is un…
1h 43m›23FILM
1998The 1998 American reimagining directed by Roland Emmerich and produced by TriStar Pictures, a separate continuity from Toho's films. A nucle…
2h 19m›24FILM
1999The 1999 first Millennium film directed by Takao Ōkawara, launching a new anthology era. Members of the Godzilla Prediction Network track Go…
1h 47m›25FILM
2000The 2000 second Millennium film directed by Masaaki Tezuka. In an alternate continuity where Japan abandoned nuclear power after the 1954 at…
1h 45m›26FILM
2001The 2001 third Millennium film directed by Shūsuke Kaneko, often abbreviated as GMK. In this standalone continuity, Godzilla is the vengeful…
1h 45m›27FILM
2002The 2002 fourth Millennium film directed by Masaaki Tezuka, also known as Godzilla x Mechagodzilla. Decades after the 1954 Godzilla's death,…
1h 28m›28FILM
2003The 2003 fifth Millennium film directed by Masaaki Tezuka, a direct sequel to Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla. One year after the events of A…
1h 31m›29FILM
2004The 2004 sixth and final Millennium film directed by Ryūhei Kitamura, produced for the franchise's 50th anniversary as a globe-trotting kaij…
2h 5m›30FILM
2016The 2016 Toho reboot co-directed by Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi, with Anno also writing the screenplay. A mysterious creature emerges in…
2h 0m›31FILM
2017The 2017 first film of the Polygon Pictures CGI animated trilogy, co-directed by Kōbun Shizuno and Hiroyuki Seshita and written by Gen Urobu…
1h 29m›32FILM
2018The 2018 second film of the Polygon Pictures animated trilogy, co-directed by Kōbun Shizuno and Hiroyuki Seshita. Picking up immediately aft…
1h 41m›33FILM
2018The 2018 third and final film of the Polygon Pictures animated trilogy, co-directed by Kōbun Shizuno and Hiroyuki Seshita. After the events…
1h 31m›34FILM
2023The 2023 Toho film written and directed by Takashi Yamazaki, who also supervised visual effects. Set in immediate postwar Japan, the film fo…
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