Monster_Planet_of_Godzilla Knowpia

Monster Planet of Godzilla
Monster Planet of Godzilla
	Title card
Directed by	Kōichi Kawakita
Written by	Marie Terunuma
Produced by	Kiyoshi Suzuki; Yasuo Wakabayashi
Starring	Megumi Odaka; Iemasa Kayumi; Megumi Hayashibara; Kaneto Shiozawa; Kenpachiro Satsuma;
Cinematography	Kenichi Eguchi
Edited by	Sae Tojima
Music by	Akira Ifukube (stock)
Release date	March 18, 1994
Running time	6 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Monster Planet of Godzilla (Japanese: 怪獣プラネットゴジラ, Hepburn: Kaijū Puranetto Gojira) is a 1994 Japanese kaiju short film directed by Kōichi Kawakita. The film served as a theme park attraction that was screened at Sanrio Puroland and Harmony Land^[1] from March 18, 1994^[2] to July 1, 1998.^[3] It is a 3-D motion simulator featuring specially filmed sequences of Godzilla battling the monsters Mothra and Rodan.^[4] All the monsters were portrayed using the costumes and props from the early 1990s Godzilla films. In addition, a new super-plane named Earth is introduced to thwart the monsters' destructive rampage.

Cast edit

Megumi Odaka as Miki Saegusa^[5]
Iemasa Kayumi as Professor Dreamon (voice)
Megumi Hayashibara as Hello Kitty (voice)
Kaneto Shiozawa as Planet pilot (voice) / G-Force soldier (voice)
Kenpachiro Satsuma as Godzilla^[1]

Home media edit

The footage from the attraction was released as a bonus feature for the Japan-only Godzilla Final Box (with the Hello Kitty footage removed, possibly due to legal issues and the short's depiction of her as a general not particularly appropriate for the character).^[5]

References edit

^ ^a ^b Godzilla 1954-1999 Super Complete Works. Shogakukan. 1 January 2000. pp. 174–177. ISBN 978-4091014702.
^ Toho Special Effects All Monster Encyclopedia. Shogakukan. 23 July 2014. p. 91. ISBN 978-4-096-82090-2.
^ Sanrio Puroland Guidebook '98 -'99. pp. 32–33.
^ "The Time Machine of Dreams". Sanrio. 1997. Archived from the original on January 29, 1998.
^ ^a ^b Hill, Jim (14 May 2014). "Remembering "Monster Planet of Godzilla," that theme park attraction which put you toe-to-toe with the Tokyo terror". jimhillmedia.com. Retrieved 2021-07-01.