Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001) on Netflix

NR20011h 45mAction Adventure Drama

An American submarine is destroyed off Guam, and Admiral Taizō Tachibana is certain Godzilla has returned. His daughter Yuri, a television reporter, looks into legends of guardian monsters.

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Admiral Taizō Tachibana tells a class of cadets that the first Godzilla died in 1954 and that monster sightings are rising around the world. Word then comes that an American nuclear submarine has been lost off Guam, and search teams find it wrecked, with footage of moving dorsal plates nearby. Tachibana's daughter Yuri works as a reporter for the outfit BS Digital Q. While she and her crew film at Mount Myōkō an earthquake strikes, and that night a second quake buries bikers who had damaged a roadside shrine. A coworker, Mitsuaki Takeda, hands her a book about Japan's guardian monsters, Baragon, Mothra and King Ghidorah. Yuri interviews Hirotoshi Isayama, an elder arrested for wrecking a shrine, who says the guardians must be woken.

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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001)

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The primary Godzilla suit was the tallest and heaviest ever built for a Godzilla film, standing about 2.2 meters tall and weighing more than 70 kg.
A shot of a skyscraper being damaged was filmed before the September 11 attacks, and Toho weighed removing it as insensitive given the World Trade Center's destruction; special effects director Makoto Kamiya feared it would be cut, but it stayed in the final release.
Rie Ota, who played Baragon, became the first female suit actor in a Toho-produced kaiju film; casting the petite performer emphasized the size difference, with Baragon roughly half Godzilla's height.
Shusuke Kaneko wanted Godzilla to destroy the controversial Yasukuni Shrine, but Toho rejected the idea as too inflammatory to include in the film.
After Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000) underperformed with ¥1.2 billion against a ¥700–950 million budget, Toho executives moved to cancel Kaneko's film and end the franchise, but Shogo Tomiyama defended it and the project proceeded.
For the shot of Baragon falling from the sky and crashing into a helicopter, the empty suit was hung upside-down from the rafters, dropped and set alight mid-fall; it was burned three times, extinguished with fire extinguishers each time, and Makoto Kamiya chose the third take.
For the guesthouse destruction sequence, the full set built on Stage 8 at Toho Studios was raised by a forklift fitted with springs to mimic Godzilla's earth-shaking footsteps, and when it was dropped, hidden crew struck ping-pong balls from under the floor with hammers so they bounced.
Chiharu Niiyama, cast as reporter Yuri Tachibana, was 20 when she became the youngest actress ever to headline a Godzilla film, beating Misato Tanaka, who was 23 when she led Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000).