That’s why he chose to make a monster that would be the living embodiment of pollution. When tasked with making a Godzilla movie, Banno wanted to deal with a real world issue in the same way the original film was an anti-nuke statement. Hedorah (1971) When an alien life-form lands on earth, begins feeding off the planet’s pollution, and transforms into a giant. Hedorah is quite a nasty enemy, always changing form while releasing poisonous gas and corrosive sludge. Stream All Monsters Attack on The Criterion Channel. Gojira, coincidentally, fights the monster because of the destruction to the environment. A young boy finds a dangerous monster that thrives on toxic waste that he names Hedorâ, a pun on the Japanese word for sludge, “hedoro.” In his dreams, he wishes for Gojira to defeat Hedorâ and, hopefully, persuade people to stop polluting the earth. However, the Japanese people still don’t realize that destroying the earth will summon the millennias-old protector. The series had descended into juvenile fantasy in recent years and for this 1971 production a whole new. Hedorah, even securing permission from Toho to produce and direct Godzilla 3-D. the Smog Monster, the eleventh film to feature the big green scaly one, was the strangest, trippiest picture of the original cycle of Godzilla films, perhaps of all time. Despite this project's fate, Banno would continue to try decades later to direct a sequel or spiritual successor to Godzilla vs. Gojira, defender of the Earth, has become a national phenomenon, akin to the Loch Ness Monster, especially with children, ingrained into the Japanese consciousness. Hedorah would not return in another film until Godzilla Final Wars in 2004. Hedorah has the following synopsis (courtesy of IMDb): The suits worn by the performers in the short were previously used in the making of 2004’s Godzilla: Final Wars (you can watch that HERE).ĭirected by Yoshimitsu Banno from a script he wrote with Takeshi Kimura, the original Godzilla vs. Hedorah uses the classic “suitmation” style to bring the battling kaiju to the screen. You can check it out in the embed below!ĭirected by Kazuhiro Nakagawa, who has directed a few other Godzilla shorts in recent years, this take on Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster, and to celebrate the occasion Toho has released a 5 minute short film through the official Godzilla YouTube Channel that shows a rematch between our hero Godzilla and the slimy pollution monster Hedorah. 2021 marks the 50th anniversary of the release of Godzilla vs.
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