During a briefing with the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) regarding Godzilla's first attack,[b] Admiral Taizo Tachibana is alerted about an American nuclear submarine that went missing off Guam. Search and rescue units find the sub destroyed and capture footage of a giant creature's fins nearby. Tachibana's daughter, Yuri, films a docudrama with her production crew at Mount Myōkō, where a mysterious earthquake briefly occurs. It occurs again later that night, burying a biker gang and leaving one surviving trucker, who witnesses the monster Baragon, which he misidentifies as Godzilla. The next day, Yuri's colleague Teruaki Takeda supports her theory that a monster may have been the cause of the mysterious earthquakes and gives her a book called The Guardian Monsters.
MPAA Rating: | NR |
Genre: | Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller, Sci Fi |
Country: | Japan |
Produced By: | Hideyuki Honma, Shogo Tomiyama |
Directed By: | Shûsuke Kaneko |
Written By: | Keiichi Hasegawa, Shûsuke Kaneko, Masahiro Yokotani |
Cast: | Kaoru Okunuki, Kôichi Kawakita, Hinako Saeki, Shirô Sano, Takafumi Matsuo, Masaaki Tezuka, Rik Thomas, Kazuko Katô, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Takashi Nishina, Mizuki Kanno, Masahiro Kobayashi, Yôichi Atsumi, Miyuki Komatsu, Shin'Ya ÔWada, Yukijirô Hotaru, Kôichi Ueda, Takehiro Murata, Tomoe Shinohara, Kunio Murai, Tarô Ishida, Ai Maeda, Chiharu Niiyama, Kôichi Yamadera, Hideyo Amamoto, Toshikazu Fukawa, David Thomas, Akira Ohashi, Yoshimasa Kondô, Kaho Minami, Masahiko Tsugawa, Nobuaki Kakuda, Rie Minemura, Aki Maeda, Katsuo Nakamura, Masaya Takahashi, Shingo Ippongi, Mizuho Yoshida, Ryûdô Uzaki, Ryô Kase, Shingo Katsurayama |
In Theaters: | Dec 15, 2001 |
Runtime: | 1 hour 45 minutes |
Production: | Toho Company |
Budget: | $9,400,000 |
Available On: | Amazon, Vudu |
Read More On: | Wikipedia |