1991·Action·1h 43m
7.0
★
The Futurians, time-travelers from the 23rd century, arrive in Japan to warn them of the nation's destruction under Godzilla. They offer to help erase Godzilla from history by preventing his creation. With Godzilla seemingly gone, a new monster emerges as the Futurians' true intentions are revealed.
Directed by Kazuki Ōmori
future
android
world war ii
time travel
ufo
kaiju
king ghidorah
nuclear submarine
godzilla
tokusatsu
IMDB
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Cast
Katsuhiko Sasaki
Professor Mazaki
Kosuke Toyohara
Kenichiro Terasawa
Anna Nakagawa
Emmy Kano
Megumi Odaka
Miki Saegusa
Akiji Kobayashi
Yuzo Tsuchiashi
Tokuma Nishioka
Takehito Fujio
Yoshio Tsuchiya
Businessman Yasuaki Shindo
Kenji Sahara
Minister Takayuki Segawa
Koichi Ueda
Former Lagos Island Soldier Ikehata
So Yamamura
Prime Minister
Kiwako Harada
Chiaki Moriyuma
Kenpachirō Satsuma
Godzilla
Crew
Kazuki Ōmori
Director
Kazuki Ōmori
Screenplay
Akira Ifukube
Original Music Composer
Shogo Tomiyama
Producer
Tomoyuki Tanaka
Executive Producer
Koichi Kawakita
Special Effects
Kenichi Eguchi
VFX Director of Photography
Okihiro Yoneda
First Assistant Director
Kenji Suzuki
Special Effects
Kenji Suzuki
Special Effects Assistant
Koichi Kawakita
Visual Effects
Koichi Kawakita
Visual Effects Director
Popular Reviews
137 reviews
Ddsha
7.0★ · 04/07/26
"We tried to rewrite history, but Godzilla is history." - Kenichiro Terasawa
MECHA-KING GHIDORAH IS SO PEAAKKK!!! 🐉🤖
The kaiju designs in this movie are so epic… this King Ghidorah is easily one of my favorite suits in the entire Heisei era🙌
Standard King Ghidorah looks absolutely gorgeous, the way that gold shimmer reflects everything is just stunning. But the Mecha version..? I’m in love. The blend of organic gold scales and sleek mechanical parts is just perfection. That moment when Ghidorah started choking Godzilla??? my god. Seeing foam and drool coming out of his mouth was fucking brutal and awesome. Toho really never disappoints
And of course, my king GOATZILLA!! His design is so tuff, the way he became even bigger and stronger because of that modern submarine was just a huge "wow", im obsessed
However... the plot. It was interesting af, but it literally made my brain boiling. If the Futurians moved the dinosaur, does that mean the original Godzilla never existed? And if so, what about the fight with Biollante? You need Godzilla cells for that, but he was never there?? And don't even get me started on SpaceGodzilla... how does that even work now? Either I’m stupid or the writers really fumbled the timeline here. If anyone actually understands the logic, please explain it to me in the replies, I’m begging you🙏🙏
Also, I’m not sure how I feel about the human story this time around, some of the characters' decisions felt a bit confusing, and I found myself scratching my head more than once🥲 Maybe I was just too distracted by the monsters, lol
Overall, I loved it! Even if the plot was a bit overwhelming and chaotic, the visuals and the battles made it 100% worth it. Heisei era just keeps delivering🙌
"We tried to rewrite history, but Godzilla is history." - Kenichiro Terasawa
MECHA-KING GHIDORAH IS SO PEAAKKK!!! 🐉🤖
The kaiju designs in this movie are so epic… this King Ghidorah is easily one of my favorite suits in the entire Heisei era🙌
Standard King Ghidorah looks absolutely gorgeous, the way that gold shimmer reflects everything is just stunning. But the Mecha version..? I’m in love. The blend of organic gold scales and sleek mechanical parts is just perfection. That moment when Ghidorah started choking Godzilla??? my god. Seeing foam and drool coming out of his mouth was fucking brutal and awesome. Toho really never disappoints
And of course, my king GOATZILLA!! His design is so tuff, the way he became even bigger and stronger because of that modern submarine was just a huge "wow", im obsessed
However... the plot. It was interesting af, but it literally made my brain boiling. If the Futurians moved the dinosaur, does that mean the original Godzilla never existed? And if so, what about the fight with Biollante? You need Godzilla cells for that, but he was never there?? And don't even get me started on SpaceGodzilla... how does that even work now? Either I’m stupid or the writers really fumbled the timeline here. If anyone actually understands the logic, please explain it to me in the replies, I’m begging you🙏🙏
Also, I’m not sure how I feel about the human story this time around, some of the characters' decisions felt a bit confusing, and I found myself scratching my head more than once🥲 Maybe I was just too distracted by the monsters, lol
Overall, I loved it! Even if the plot was a bit overwhelming and chaotic, the visuals and the battles made it 100% worth it. Heisei era just keeps delivering🙌
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Ace344
4.0★ · 05/26/26
I’ve come to the sad realization that I don’t think any of the Toho made Godzilla movies featuring Ghidorah aren’t that good. Last 40 minutes is great but everything before that is boring time travel human drama that is really not engaging and nonsensical
I’ve come to the sad realization that I don’t think any of the Toho made Godzilla movies featuring Ghidorah aren’t that good. Last 40 minutes is great but everything before that is boring time travel human drama that is really not engaging and nonsensical
J
8.0★ · 05/05/26
this feels a lot more like a showa era godzilla, and i feel like it really kind of detriments this "new feel" godzilla is going for, but i mean its still fun, ghidorah looks cool and totally kicks ass at the end of the day
i do still think the time travel stuff is kinda bullshit but i still love how we get more context on godzilla over these films, him being a dinosaur fits
"Contrary to how it is in films" bttf?????👀👀👀👀👀👀👀
ALSO BOTH GODZILLA AND GHIDORA KICK TOTAL ASS
i do still think the time travel stuff is kinda bullshit but i still love how we get more context on godzilla over these films, him being a dinosaur fits
"Contrary to how it is in films" bttf?????👀👀👀👀👀👀👀
ALSO BOTH GODZILLA AND GHIDORA KICK TOTAL ASS
this feels a lot more like a showa era godzilla, and i feel like it really kind of detriments this "new feel" godzilla is going for, but i mean its still fun, ghidorah looks cool and totally kicks ass at the end of the day
i do still think the time travel stuff is kinda bullshit but i still love how we get more context on godzilla over these films, him being a dinosaur fits
"Contrary to how it is in films" bttf?????👀👀👀👀👀👀👀
ALSO BOTH GODZILLA AND GHIDORA KICK TOTAL ASS
i do still think the time travel stuff is kinda bullshit but i still love how we get more context on godzilla over these films, him being a dinosaur fits
"Contrary to how it is in films" bttf?????👀👀👀👀👀👀👀
ALSO BOTH GODZILLA AND GHIDORA KICK TOTAL ASS
Bigguylittletoys
10.0★ · 03/31/26
It's literally so hard to pick a favorite Godzilla movie!! I love them all!!! Godzilla is my favorite movie franchise.
King Ghidorah is my second favorite Kaiju and this film does him so much justice!!! Godzilla is an absolute unit in this film. Plus the eventual upgrade of King Ghidorah to Mecha King Ghidorah is absolutely amazing!!!
The heisei era of Godzilla films are the best!!! This movie is one of the cornerstones of the era. If you even remotely like Godzilla you have to watch this movie!!! I can't recommend it enough!!!
King Ghidorah is my second favorite Kaiju and this film does him so much justice!!! Godzilla is an absolute unit in this film. Plus the eventual upgrade of King Ghidorah to Mecha King Ghidorah is absolutely amazing!!!
The heisei era of Godzilla films are the best!!! This movie is one of the cornerstones of the era. If you even remotely like Godzilla you have to watch this movie!!! I can't recommend it enough!!!
It's literally so hard to pick a favorite Godzilla movie!! I love them all!!! Godzilla is my favorite movie franchise.
King Ghidorah is my second favorite Kaiju and this film does him so much justice!!! Godzilla is an absolute unit in this film. Plus the eventual upgrade of King Ghidorah to Mecha King Ghidorah is absolutely amazing!!!
The heisei era of Godzilla films are the best!!! This movie is one of the cornerstones of the era. If you even remotely like Godzilla you have to watch this movie!!! I can't recommend it enough!!!
King Ghidorah is my second favorite Kaiju and this film does him so much justice!!! Godzilla is an absolute unit in this film. Plus the eventual upgrade of King Ghidorah to Mecha King Ghidorah is absolutely amazing!!!
The heisei era of Godzilla films are the best!!! This movie is one of the cornerstones of the era. If you even remotely like Godzilla you have to watch this movie!!! I can't recommend it enough!!!
Trent Achey
8.0★ · 03/07/26
I love that the main crux of this movie is:
“We can travel back in time and remove Godzilla from existence”
“Oh King Ghidorah has taken his place”
“No big deal we’ll just revive Godzilla again”
“Oh fuck now Godzilla is back bigger, more destructive, and even more pissed than usual”
“Ahh go to the future and revive Ghidorah but now make it so he’s awesome and metal and can be piloted like a gundam”
I think this is genuinely one of the most entertaining movies in the series. The high concept time travel story is really fun, the idea that Godzilla was once just a dinosaur that happened to survive on an island and inadvertently saved a bunch of Japanese soldiers by the American soldiers pissing off the dinosaur first. I love that because of this event that commander now thinks he has some sort of bond with Godzilla (he doesn’t btw he just thinks he does which leads to one of the best scenes in the franchise I won’t spoil that because it’s perfect). The only two major complaints are that because of such a high concept like time travel there’s always little things that get kind of over looked that bother me. Like when they travel back to 1944 to get rid of the dinosaur they take 3 people from 1992 with them. Those people being aware of Godzilla and then getting rid of him and being aware of a past that no longer should in theory exist I get and am fine with, but the greater world at large should now have a new memory of Godzilla never existing since we’ve entered a new timeline now but no, everyone remembers Godzilla existed and actually the moment he disappeared Ghidorah took his place and that’s just odd to me because now there’s like three other movies in this timeline that happened with Godzilla and in theory shouldn’t have. It’s a small thing that leads to a rabbit hole that I wish wasn’t there, it wouldn’t even be there if they just mentioned once that the general public has no memory of a “Godzilla” ever existing only ever the terror of Ghidorah or something. The other thing that bothers me is the android character he’s always kind of bothered me. He acts too human but too much like a really weird and bizarre human and not robotic at all. Maybe it’s because I want a Data performance out of him but Brett Spiner he is not. The effect of him running really fast is also kind of embarrassing. Just him slowly waving his arms around while the green screened background or rear projected background is zipping past always looks dumb to me. Beyond those two complaints though this is a really fun one, the time travel shenanigans don’t really matter if you just don’t think about them and I mean it’s a later Godzilla film are you really thinking anyways? I think this is a very fun movie and still a great movie In this series run. There has yet to be a Godzilla vs Gigan in this series where the movie is fun but kind of a slog or an All Monsters Attack where it’s just actually irredeemable. Overall good fun movie, I do enjoy this one.
“We can travel back in time and remove Godzilla from existence”
“Oh King Ghidorah has taken his place”
“No big deal we’ll just revive Godzilla again”
“Oh fuck now Godzilla is back bigger, more destructive, and even more pissed than usual”
“Ahh go to the future and revive Ghidorah but now make it so he’s awesome and metal and can be piloted like a gundam”
I think this is genuinely one of the most entertaining movies in the series. The high concept time travel story is really fun, the idea that Godzilla was once just a dinosaur that happened to survive on an island and inadvertently saved a bunch of Japanese soldiers by the American soldiers pissing off the dinosaur first. I love that because of this event that commander now thinks he has some sort of bond with Godzilla (he doesn’t btw he just thinks he does which leads to one of the best scenes in the franchise I won’t spoil that because it’s perfect). The only two major complaints are that because of such a high concept like time travel there’s always little things that get kind of over looked that bother me. Like when they travel back to 1944 to get rid of the dinosaur they take 3 people from 1992 with them. Those people being aware of Godzilla and then getting rid of him and being aware of a past that no longer should in theory exist I get and am fine with, but the greater world at large should now have a new memory of Godzilla never existing since we’ve entered a new timeline now but no, everyone remembers Godzilla existed and actually the moment he disappeared Ghidorah took his place and that’s just odd to me because now there’s like three other movies in this timeline that happened with Godzilla and in theory shouldn’t have. It’s a small thing that leads to a rabbit hole that I wish wasn’t there, it wouldn’t even be there if they just mentioned once that the general public has no memory of a “Godzilla” ever existing only ever the terror of Ghidorah or something. The other thing that bothers me is the android character he’s always kind of bothered me. He acts too human but too much like a really weird and bizarre human and not robotic at all. Maybe it’s because I want a Data performance out of him but Brett Spiner he is not. The effect of him running really fast is also kind of embarrassing. Just him slowly waving his arms around while the green screened background or rear projected background is zipping past always looks dumb to me. Beyond those two complaints though this is a really fun one, the time travel shenanigans don’t really matter if you just don’t think about them and I mean it’s a later Godzilla film are you really thinking anyways? I think this is a very fun movie and still a great movie In this series run. There has yet to be a Godzilla vs Gigan in this series where the movie is fun but kind of a slog or an All Monsters Attack where it’s just actually irredeemable. Overall good fun movie, I do enjoy this one.
I love that the main crux of this movie is:
“We can travel back in time and remove Godzilla from existence”
“Oh King Ghidorah has taken his place”
“No big deal we’ll just revive Godzilla again”
“Oh fuck now Godzilla is back bigger, more destructive, and even more pissed than usual”
“Ahh go to the future and revive Ghidorah but now make it so he’s awesome and metal and can be piloted like a gundam”
I think this is genuinely one of the most entertaining movies in the series. The high concept time travel story is really fun, the idea that Godzilla was once just a dinosaur that happened to survive on an island and inadvertently saved a bunch of Japanese soldiers by the American soldiers pissing off the dinosaur first. I love that because of this event that commander now thinks he has some sort of bond with Godzilla (he doesn’t btw he just thinks he does which leads to one of the best scenes in the franchise I won’t spoil that because it’s perfect). The only two major complaints are that because of such a high concept like time travel there’s always little things that get kind of over looked that bother me. Like when they travel back to 1944 to get rid of the dinosaur they take 3 people from 1992 with them. Those people being aware of Godzilla and then getting rid of him and being aware of a past that no longer should in theory exist I get and am fine with, but the greater world at large should now have a new memory of Godzilla never existing since we’ve entered a new timeline now but no, everyone remembers Godzilla existed and actually the moment he disappeared Ghidorah took his place and that’s just odd to me because now there’s like three other movies in this timeline that happened with Godzilla and in theory shouldn’t have. It’s a small thing that leads to a rabbit hole that I wish wasn’t there, it wouldn’t even be there if they just mentioned once that the general public has no memory of a “Godzilla” ever existing only ever the terror of Ghidorah or something. The other thing that bothers me is the android character he’s always kind of bothered me. He acts too human but too much like a really weird and bizarre human and not robotic at all. Maybe it’s because I want a Data performance out of him but Brett Spiner he is not. The effect of him running really fast is also kind of embarrassing. Just him slowly waving his arms around while the green screened background or rear projected background is zipping past always looks dumb to me. Beyond those two complaints though this is a really fun one, the time travel shenanigans don’t really matter if you just don’t think about them and I mean it’s a later Godzilla film are you really thinking anyways? I think this is a very fun movie and still a great movie In this series run. There has yet to be a Godzilla vs Gigan in this series where the movie is fun but kind of a slog or an All Monsters Attack where it’s just actually irredeemable. Overall good fun movie, I do enjoy this one.
“We can travel back in time and remove Godzilla from existence”
“Oh King Ghidorah has taken his place”
“No big deal we’ll just revive Godzilla again”
“Oh fuck now Godzilla is back bigger, more destructive, and even more pissed than usual”
“Ahh go to the future and revive Ghidorah but now make it so he’s awesome and metal and can be piloted like a gundam”
I think this is genuinely one of the most entertaining movies in the series. The high concept time travel story is really fun, the idea that Godzilla was once just a dinosaur that happened to survive on an island and inadvertently saved a bunch of Japanese soldiers by the American soldiers pissing off the dinosaur first. I love that because of this event that commander now thinks he has some sort of bond with Godzilla (he doesn’t btw he just thinks he does which leads to one of the best scenes in the franchise I won’t spoil that because it’s perfect). The only two major complaints are that because of such a high concept like time travel there’s always little things that get kind of over looked that bother me. Like when they travel back to 1944 to get rid of the dinosaur they take 3 people from 1992 with them. Those people being aware of Godzilla and then getting rid of him and being aware of a past that no longer should in theory exist I get and am fine with, but the greater world at large should now have a new memory of Godzilla never existing since we’ve entered a new timeline now but no, everyone remembers Godzilla existed and actually the moment he disappeared Ghidorah took his place and that’s just odd to me because now there’s like three other movies in this timeline that happened with Godzilla and in theory shouldn’t have. It’s a small thing that leads to a rabbit hole that I wish wasn’t there, it wouldn’t even be there if they just mentioned once that the general public has no memory of a “Godzilla” ever existing only ever the terror of Ghidorah or something. The other thing that bothers me is the android character he’s always kind of bothered me. He acts too human but too much like a really weird and bizarre human and not robotic at all. Maybe it’s because I want a Data performance out of him but Brett Spiner he is not. The effect of him running really fast is also kind of embarrassing. Just him slowly waving his arms around while the green screened background or rear projected background is zipping past always looks dumb to me. Beyond those two complaints though this is a really fun one, the time travel shenanigans don’t really matter if you just don’t think about them and I mean it’s a later Godzilla film are you really thinking anyways? I think this is a very fun movie and still a great movie In this series run. There has yet to be a Godzilla vs Gigan in this series where the movie is fun but kind of a slog or an All Monsters Attack where it’s just actually irredeemable. Overall good fun movie, I do enjoy this one.