Godzilla vs American version ‘Zilla’ (Hollywood’s 1998 version)

Godzilla’s official makers showed him bringing a quick end to the Hollywood knockoff.

In 2014’s Godzilla: Final Wars: Following the arrival of alien visitors, Earth is being attacked by giant monsters. Eventually, the aliens take control of Earth’s defenders—and the only hope left is to free Godzilla from his underground prison.

Godzilla fights lots of monsters in this film—including Toho’s retread of the Hollywood approach to Godzilla from 1998’s Godzilla. Watch below…

One of my favorite Godzilla movies, Godzilla: Final Wars is directed by Ryuhei Kitamura, written by Isao Kiriyama and Wataru Mimura, and produced by Shogo Tomiyama. An international co-production between Japan, Australia, the United States, and China, the film was produced by Toho Studios, CP International, Zazou Productions, and Napalm Films.

The film stars Masahiro MatsuokaRei KikukawaDon FryeMaki MizunoKazuki KitamuraKane KosugiKumi MizunoKenji SaharaMasami NagasawaChihiro OtsukaShigeru IzumiyaMasakatsu FunakiMasato IbuJun Kunimura, and Akira Takarada.

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Chris Well

Chris Well been a writer pretty much his entire life. (Well, since his childhood.) Over the years, he has worked in newspapers, magazines, radio, and books. He now is the chief of the website Monster Complex, celebrating monster stories in lit and pop culture. He also writes horror comedy fiction that embraces Universal Monsters, 1960s sitcoms, 1980s action movies, and the X-Files.

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