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(1991) is a Japanese science fiction ''kaiju'' (literally, strange beast) film. It was produced by Toho Co., Ltd., directed by Kazuki Omori and featured special effects by Koichi Kawakita. The film starred Anna Nakagawa, Megumi Odaka, and Akiji Kobayashi. ''Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah'' is the eighteenth installment of the Godzilla series. It features the return of Godzilla's greatest foe, the three-headed King Ghidorah. The film was a box office hit with sequels released on a yearly basis until 1995. In 1998, the film was released direct to video on DVD in the United States by Columbia Tristar Home Video and again by Sony in 2014. ==Plot== In 1992, journalist Kenichiro Terasawa (Kosuke Toyohara) is writing a book about Godzilla. He learns about a group of Japanese soldiers stationed on Lagos Island in the South Pacific during World War II. In February 1944, while threatened by American soldiers, the Japanese soldiers were saved unintentionally by a mysterious dinosaur known as Godzillasaurus. In 1954, Lagos Island was destroyed by a hydrogen bomb test and the nuclear radiation from the bomb mutated Godzillasaurus into Godzilla. Yasuaki Shindo (Yoshio Tsuchiya), who commanded the Japanese soldiers on Lagos Island, is now a wealthy businessman. He tells Teresawa that the dinosaur did indeed exist. Meanwhile, a UFO lands on Mount Fuji. When the Japanese army investigates, they are greeted by Wilson (Chuck Wilson), Grenchko (Richard Berger), Emmy Kano (Anna Nakagawa) and an android, M-11 (Robert Scott Field). The visitors, known as the ''Futurians'', explain that they are humans from the year 2204, where Godzilla has completely destroyed Japan. The Futurians plan to travel back in time to 1944 to remove the Godzillasaurus from Lagos Island before the island is destroyed, thus preventing the mutation of the dinosaur into Godzilla. As proof of their story, Emmy presents a copy of Terasawa's book, which has not yet been completed in the present, to the Japanese government. The Futurians, Terasawa, Miki Saegusa (a psychic), and Professor Mazaki (Katsuhiko Sasaki), board a time shuttle and travel back to 1944 to Lagos Island. There, as American forces land and engage the Japanese forces commanded by Shindo, Godzillasaurus attacks and kills the American soldiers. The American navy then bombs the dinosaur from the sea and it is gravely wounded. After Shindo and his men leave the island, M-11 teleports Godzillasaurus from Lagos Island to a place in the Bering Strait. Before returning to 1992, the Futurians leave three small creatures called Dorats on Lagos Island which are exposed to radiation from the hydrogen bomb test in 1954.〔 The creatures merge to become King Ghidorah, which then appears in present-day Japan. After returning to 1992, the Futurians use King Ghidorah, which has taken Godzilla's place in history, to subjugate Japan. They issue an ultimatum, but Japan refuses to surrender. Feeling sympathy for the Japanese people, Emmy reveals to Teresawa the truth behind the Futurians' mission: in the future, Japan is an economic superpower that has surpassed the United States, Russia, and China. The Futurians traveled back in time in order to change history and prevent Japan's future economic dominance by creating King Ghidorah and using it to destroy present day Japan. At the same time, they also planned to erase Godzilla from history so it wouldn't pose a threat to their plans. After M-11 brings Emmy back to the UFO, she reprograms the android so it will help her. With M-11 and Terasawa's aid, Emmy sabotages the UFO's control over King Ghidorah. At the same time, Shindo plans to use his nuclear submarine to recreate Godzilla. On route to the Bering Strait, Shindo's submarine is destroyed by Godzilla, who absorbs the radiation from it and becomes even larger and more powerful. Terasawa searches through the newspaper archives and discovers that a Russian nuclear submarine sank in the Bering Strait in the same area to which Godzillasaurus had been teleported. The Russian submarine released enough radiation to mutate the dinosaur into Godzilla. Godzilla arrives in Japan and is met by King Ghidorah. They fight at equal strength, each immune to the other's attacks. Godzilla eventually ends the battle by blasting off Ghidorah's middle head. Before the final blow, Godzilla destroys the UFO, killing Wilson and Grenchko. Japanese soldiers attack Godzilla in Sapporo to no avail. Godzilla then turns its attention on Tokyo, destroying the metropolis and killing Shindo. Emmy travels to the future with M-11 and then returns to the present day with Mecha-King Ghidorah, a cybernetic version of King Ghidorah.〔 The cybernetic Ghidorah blasts Godzilla with energy beams, which proves useless. Godzilla then counters by relentlessly blasting Ghidorah with its atomic ray, almost decapitating Ghidorah. Ghidorah survives but then Godzilla prevails, knocking Ghidorah down. Emmy carries off Godzilla and drops it and Ghidorah into the ocean. Emmy then returns to the future but not before informing Terasawa that she is his descendant. At the bottom of the sea, Godzilla recovers and roars over Mecha-King Ghidorah's remains. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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