Boats are disappearing off the coast of Japan, and the few survivors claim their ships were attacked by a monster. Not long after, the village on Odo Island is hit by a brutal storm in the night, but it appears something else was present within the storm. So a research team is sent to the island led by the paleontologist Dr. Yamata, with his daughter Emiko and her boyfriend Ogata tagging along. There they find some of the island irradiated, and soon, discover the culprit: a giant prehistoric monster called Godzilla, awakened by the United States' atomic tests in the pacific. Now the beast is stalking the Japanese coastline, and when it makes landfall, the Japanese military is powerless to stop him. Emiko knows of a way to potentially defeat Godzilla, but she made a promise to her ex, Dr. Serizawa to keep his secret invention a secret, the oxygen destroyer. Emiko and Ogata confront Serizawa, as the weapon may be the only way to put Godzilla's reign of terror to an end, but Serizawa knows of the horrors that may be brought about if his terrifying weapon is revealed to the world.
Cast
- Takashi Shimura
- Akihiko Hirata
- Akira Takarada
- Momoko Kochi
- Toyoaki Suzuki
- Haruo Nakajima