MOTHRA VS. GODZILLA (1964) ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Ishirô Honda
Akira Takarada, Yuriko Hoshi, Hiroshi Koizumi,
Yû Fujiki, Kenji Sahara, Emi Itô, Yumi Itô
When a giant egg containing the offspring of Mothra ends up on a Japanese beach and Godzilla crawls out of the ground closeby, you just know a battle of the monsters is about to occur. It happens when the egg hatches and the junior Mothra twins take on the 400-foot-tall, fire-breathing reptile. That would seem to be a mismatch, but the not-so-little, would-be caterpillars have a few tricks up their sleeves, or they would, if, you know, they had sleeves. Also, the tiny, singing fairy girls are cute.
