Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993) on Netflix

PG19931h 45mAction Adventure Drama

The United Nations builds Mechagodzilla to counter Godzilla. A research team carries a giant egg from an uncharted island to Kyoto, where it imprints on the scientist Azusa Gojo.

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Plot summary

After Godzilla defeats Mecha-King Ghidorah, the United Nations sets up a countermeasure center, and its military branch, G-Force, recovers Ghidorah's remains and reverse engineers two weapons against Godzilla: the flying gunship Garuda and Mechagodzilla, a mecha modeled on Godzilla. Two years later, a Japanese team on Adonoa Island, in the Bering Sea, comes across what it takes to be the egg of a giant Pteranodon. The egg sends out a telepathic call that draws both Godzilla and Rodan, a grown Pteranodon changed by nuclear waste. Godzilla wounds Rodan, and the team escapes with the egg to Kyoto, where it imprints on the young scientist Azusa Gojo. A juvenile Godzillasaurus emerges from the egg.

Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993)

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Toho first wanted a remake of King Kong vs. Godzilla but could not get the rights to King Kong from Universal Pictures, so it considered pitting Godzilla against Mechani-Kong, whose syringes would inject G-Force troops into Godzilla's bloodstream like Fantastic Voyage, before abandoning that as too costly.
The original ending had Godzilla destroying the gunship Garuda but being killed by Mechagodzilla, until Garuda's exploding nuclear reactor resurrected him; another ending considered, in which Godzilla's escaping life energy mutates Baby Godzilla into a new adult Godzilla, was later used in Godzilla vs. Destoroyah.
Toho brought back Minilla, rechristened Baby Godzilla, to appeal to the largely female audience that had made Godzilla vs. Mothra a financial success, over the objections of director Takao Okawara, who thought little of the 1960s films the character had appeared in.
By 1994 the film had taken $194,000,000 combined from the box office and from book and merchandise sales — $158,000,000 of it from books and merchandise — making it the most profitable non-animated Japanese film at the time.
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II holds a small piece of Japanese film history: it was the first Japanese film to use the Dolby Digital sound format.
Effects artist Kōichi Kawakita used more CGI than on his previous Godzilla films and made the monsters less reliant on energy beams during battle; Rodan in particular was portrayed with hand puppets and marionettes rather than through suitmation.