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    Mothra (Japanese: モスラ, Hepburn: Mosura) is a fictional monster or kaiju, that first appeared in the 1961 film Mothra, produced and distributed by Toho...
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    Mothra (Japanese: モスラ, Hepburn: Mosura) is a 1961 Japanese kaiju film directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. Produced and distributed...
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    Godzilla. In the film, humans beseech the aid of the insect god Mothra to stop Godzilla from destroying Japan. Due to the success of Mothra (1961) and King Kong...
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  • Rebirth of Mothra (モスラ, Mosura, released in Japan simply as Mothra) is a 1996 Japanese kaiju film directed by Okihiro Yoneda, with special effects by Kōichi...
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  • Godzilla vs. Mothra (ゴジラvsモスラ, Gojira tai Mosura, also known as Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle for Earth) is a 1992 Japanese kaiju film directed by Takao...
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  • Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (ゴジラ・モスラ・キングギドラ 大怪獣総攻撃, Gojira, Mosura, Kingu Gidora: Daikaijū Sōkōgeki) is a 2001 Japanese...
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  • Mothra II (モスラ2 海底の大決戦, Mosura Tsū Kaitei no Daikessen, released in Japan as Mothra 2: The Battle Under the Deep Sea) is a 1997 Japanese kaiju film directed...
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  • of Mothra 3 (モスラ 3 キングギドラ来襲, Mosura Surī Kingu Gidora Raishū, released in Japan as Mothra 3: Invasion of King Ghidorah) is a 1998 Japanese kaiju film directed...
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  • Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (category Mothra films)
    continuity with a previous Godzilla film besides the original 1954 film and also shares connections with Mothra (1961). The following entry in the series...
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  • Godzilla attacks him, and a brief fight ensues until Mothra intervenes. Godzilla, Kong, and Mothra return to the Hollow Earth and engage Skar King and...
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  • Tell Me True Two Rode Together 30 July Mothra (Japan) 31 July And Love Has Vanished (Yugoslavia) August 1961 9 August Come September The Frightened City...
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  • Tokyo S.O.S. are the only films in the Millennium era to share continuity with each other and are also connected to 1961's Mothra. After the release of 2004's...
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  • In the film, eco-terrorists release King Ghidorah, who awakens other monsters known as "Titans" across the world, forcing Godzilla and Mothra to surface...
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    Mothra to surface and engage Ghidorah and Rodan in a decisive battle. The film changes the monsters' designation from "MUTOs" to "Titans". The film introduces...
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    Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (category Mothra films)
    Godzilla franchise, and was the second Godzilla film produced that year, after Mothra vs. Godzilla. The film stars Yosuke Natsuki, Hiroshi Koizumi, Akiko...
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  • year. The track's title is derived from 1961 Japanese film of the same name by Ishirō Honda. Musically, "Mothra" is a grinding, mechanical song with shouted...
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  • Toho International (category American film company stubs)
    (1960) The Human Vapor (1960) The Story of Osaka Castle (1961) Mothra (1961) The Last War (1961) Gorath (1962) King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) Matango (1963)...
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  • Ebirah, Mothra: Big Duel in the South Seas) is a 1966 Japanese kaiju film directed by Jun Fukuda and produced and distributed by Toho Co., Ltd. The film stars...
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    Rodan, Mothra, King Ghidorah, and Gamera. Honda and Tsuburaya drew inspiration from the character of King Kong, both in its influential 1933 film and in...
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  • Godzilla: Final Wars (category Mothra films)
    teleported to Infant Island where they encounter the Shobijin, fairies of Mothra, who reveal the mummified monster as Gigan, an alien cyborg sent to destroy...
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    Kyōko Kagawa (category Japanese film actresses)
    Yasujirō Ozu and Mikio Naruse, appearing in films such as Tokyo Story, Sansho the Bailiff, The Bad Sleep Well, Mothra, and High and Low. Kagawa was born in...
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    Akira Watanabe (art director) (category Japanese film director stubs)
    Osaka Castle (1961) Mothra (1961) The Last War (1961) Gorath (1962) King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) Matango (1963) Atragon (1963) Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964)...
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  • 891,000 ($572,580) $74,000,000 in Japan. $123,959 in the United States. Mothra vs. Godzilla rentals – ¥310 million in 1964. ¥237 million in 1970. ¥1.55...
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  • Rodan (category Film characters introduced in 1956)
    him, Mothra, King Ghidorah, and Godzilla in the footage that is shown to James Conrad and Mason Weaver. A casting call confirmed that Rodan, Mothra, and...
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    Bin Furuya (section Film)
    1960, he entered Toho. His first role in a motion picture was in the 1961 film Mothra. He began his career as a crowd actor for Toho. At the age of 22, in...
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    Eiji Tsuburaya (category Japanese film editors)
    tenth-anniversary of Toho's kaiju films and depicts the battle between Godzilla and the title character of the 1961 film Mothra. Tsuburaya utilized his 1900...
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    Yūji Koseki (category Japanese film score composers)
    and "Mothra's song". Ichiro Fujiyama sang "The Bells of Nagasaki" in 1949. "Mothra's song", sung by The Peanuts, was used in the 1961 movie Mothra. "Olympic...
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  • Katsumi Tezuka (category Japanese male film actors)
    Series. McFarland. pp. 18, 30, 35, 42, 55, 61, 67, 73. ISBN 9780786430994. Mothra Movie Encyclopedia. Yosensha. July 2011. p. 99. ISBN 978-4862487612....
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    Haruo Nakajima (category Japanese male film actors)
    various other kaiju in Toho's tokusatsu films, including: Rodan (1956), Mothra (1961) and The War of the Gargantuas (1966) and also appeared in a minor role...
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  • Destroy All Monsters (category Mothra films)
    Toho Co., Ltd, is the ninth film in the Godzilla franchise, and features eleven monster characters, including Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, King Ghidorah, Anguirus...
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