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Plot summary
A comet carries Hedorah, a creature of an amorphous alien species from the Horsehead Nebula, to Earth. It feeds on the pollutants people have poured into the sea and air and grows into a poisonous monster that exudes sulfuric acid. It sinks an oil tanker, then comes ashore and attacks Ken and his father, Dr. Toru Yano, leaving the doctor scarred. The attacks make Hedorah known across Japan. Ken, who sees visions of Godzilla battling the world's pollution, tells everyone the monster will come to help. Hedorah takes an amphibious form to feed on smoke and waste on land, and moves toward a power station, where Godzilla confronts it.
Cast
- Kentaro Watanabeas Announcer B
- Yukihiko Gondōas Mean General
- Eisaburo Komatsuas Non Commissioned Officer
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Producer Tomoyuki Tanaka spent most of the shoot of Godzilla vs. Hedorah in hospital, and director Yoshimitsu Banno used that to slip in the scene where Godzilla uses his atomic breath to fly after Hedorah; Tanaka reportedly loathed the film and blocked Banno from directing another Godzilla film.
- Kenpachiro Satsuma, the actor inside the Hedorah suit in Godzilla vs. Hedorah, came down with appendicitis shortly after production while giving a newspaper interview only loosely wearing the heavy costume, was rushed into surgery, and there learned painkillers had no effect on him.
- Director Yoshimitsu Banno got the idea for Godzilla vs. Hedorah from seeing cities like Yokkaichi covered in black smog and the sea foaming with dumped detergent, and built the story around an alien tadpole turned into a monster by pollution.
SPOILER
A leftover of Banno's sequel plans sits in the finished Godzilla vs. Hedorah: at the end, after an illustration of Hedorah's tadpole form, a black screen carries red text reading "And yet another one?".- Banno had only 35 days to shoot Godzilla vs. Hedorah and just one crew available to film both the human drama and the monster effects scenes.
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