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Mothra (1961)
Directed by Ishirō Honda
“Mightiest monster in all creation! Ravaging a universe for love!”
Adventure, Science Fiction, Fantasy · 1h 41m
Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that discovers a surviving native population along with the Shobijin, tiny twin fairy priestesses of the island's mythical deity called Mothra. After the fairies are kidnapped by an exploitative businessman named Clark Nelson, Mothra sets out to rescue them.
Cast
Frankie Sakai
Senichiro 'Sen-chan' Fukuda
Hiroshi Koizumi
Dr. Shin'ichi Chûjô
Kyōko Kagawa
Michi Hanamura
Jerry Itō
Clark Nelson
Ken Uehara
Dr. Harada
Emi Ito
Shobijin (Twin Fairy)
Yumi Ito
Shobijin (Twin Fairy)
Takashi Shimura
News Editor
A
Akihiro Tayama
Shinji Chûjô
Akihiko Hirata
Doctor
Tetsu Nakamura
Nelson's Henchman
O
Obel Wyatt
Dr. Roff
Crew
- Director
- Ishirō Honda
- Screenplay
- Shinichi Sekizawa
- Novel
- Takehiko Fukunaga, Yoshie Hotta, Shinichirô Nakamura
- Director of Photography
- Hajime Koizumi
- Original Music Composer
- Yūji Koseki, Koji Kajita
- Editor
- Kazuji Taira
- Producer
- Tomoyuki Tanaka
Details
- Original title
- モスラ
- Release date
- 1961-07-30
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Genres
- Adventure, Science Fiction, Fantasy
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese, English
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- TOHO, Far East Laboratory
- Box office
- $2,237,760