"With each step forward, does he not take several steps back?": Godzilla Raids Again
Info Also Known As: Godzilla’s Counterattack (Original Japanese translation); Gigantis: The Fire Monster (U.S. cut); [Just] The Fire Monster (Argentina and Brazil); The Volcano Monsters (Canceled U.S. re-edit) Director: Oda Motoyoshi. Screenplay: Murata Takeo and Hidaka Shigeaki, from a story by Shigeru Kayama. Director of Special Effects: Tsuburaya Eiji. Composer: Sato Masaru. Runtime: 82 minutes (original), 78 minutes ( Gigantis ) What’s It About? A pilot in a Japanese fishing company is forced to make an emergency crash-landing on a rocky island. When his friend and coworker flies in to rescue him, they discover a pair of giant monsters in a fight to the death: one Godzilla, the other a mutant and inexplicably carnivorous Ankylosaurus named Anguirus. The monsters’ battle takes them into the sea and on a course toward the city of Osaka. Without Dr. Serizawa and the Oxygen Destroyer, does Japan have any hope of protecting itself from not one but two rampaging beasts? Mons...