Mothra (Mosura)

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Directed by

Ishirô Honda

Starring (View all)

Frankie Sakai
Senichiro 'Sen-chan' Fukuda

Hiroshi Koizumi
Dr. Shin'ichi Chûjô

Kyôko Kagawa
Photographer Michi Hanamura

Yumi Itô
Shobijin

Emi Itô
Shobijin

Ken Uehara
Dr. Harada

Takashi Shimura
News Editor

Tetsu Nakamura
Nelson's Henchman

Written by

Peter Fernandez
english version

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Description: Shipwreck survivors are found on Beiru, an island previously used for atomic tests. Amazingly free of radiation effects, they believe they were protected by a special juice given to them by the natives. A joint expedition of Rolithican and Japanese scientists explores Beiru and discovers many curious things, including two women only a foot high. Unscrupulous expedition leader Clark Nelson abducts the women and puts them in a vaudeville show. But their sweet singing contains a telepathic cry for help to Mothra, the gigantic moth worshipped as a goddess by the island people. Mothra seeks the women in Tokyo, wreaking havoc on t ... (more)

Release date: 10 May 1962

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"First viewing - Aug. 23rd Seems like I may have seen parts of this on TV at some point, but I definitely never saw the whole thing before. And so, what better way to see it than at a Rifftrax screening? I must have missed the fine print, because I thought the Rifftrax dudes would be present...unfortunately it was a satellite broadcast thing instead. But hey, I still got to see them tear Mothra apart and it was so much fun. As is often the case with these things their jokes hit the mark more oft"