01 FILM Godzilla 1954 Ishirō Honda's 1954 original, the film that founded the kaiju genre. Japanese fishing vessels are mysteriously destroyed near Odo Island, an…
1h 36m › 02 FILM Godzilla Raids Again 1955 The 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 › 03 FILM King Kong vs. Godzilla 1962 The 1962 crossover directed by Ishirō Honda, produced for Toho's 30th anniversary in partnership with RKO Pictures. A Japanese pharmaceutica…
1h 37m › 04 FILM Mothra vs. Godzilla 1964 The 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 › 05 FILM Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster 1964 The 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 › 06 FILM Invasion of Astro-Monster 1965 The 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 › 07 FILM Ebirah, Horror of the Deep 1966 The 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 › 08 FILM Son of Godzilla 1967 The 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 › 09 FILM Destroy All Monsters 1968 The 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 › 10 FILM All Monsters Attack 1969 The 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 › 11 FILM Godzilla vs. Hedorah 1971 The 1971 eleventh film directed by Yoshimitsu Banno, an environmental allegory featuring the smog-monster Hedorah. The creature is born from…
1h 25m › 12 FILM Godzilla vs. Gigan 1972 The 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 › 13 FILM Godzilla vs. Megalon 1973 The 1973 thirteenth film directed by Jun Fukuda. Underground nuclear tests anger the lost civilization of Seatopia, which unleashes the beet…
1h 21m › 14 FILM Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla 1974 The 1974 fourteenth film directed by Jun Fukuda, produced for the franchise's 20th anniversary. Black Hole alien apes from the third planet…
1h 24m › 15 FILM Terror of Mechagodzilla 1975 The 1975 fifteenth and final Showa film, directed by Ishirō Honda — his return to the franchise after a seven-year absence. The Black Hole a…
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