Terror of MechaGodzilla (1975)
November 15
Ishiro Honda’s TERROR OF MECHAGODZILLA
(1975, 83 min)
In Godzilla’s last movie of the Showa era, aliens retrieve Mechagodzilla’s remains and rebuild it with the aid of an unhinged biologist (a scenery-chewing Akihiko Hirata), in hopes of defeating Godzilla for possession of planet Earth. This film marks the return of director Ishiro Honda, who had retired years earlier. For this final entry, Honda steers the King of the Monsters back into grim territory, interweaving an alien-invasion plot with a tale of tragic romance.
In Japanese with English subtitles