

At the turn of the century, all of the Earth's monsters have been rounded up and kept safely on Monsterland. Chaos erupts when a race of she-aliens known as the Kilaaks unleash the monsters across the world.
Practical Effects
Eleven separate rubber suits smashing miniature Tokyo simultaneously. Honda went HARD.
Production
Osaka Castle gets obliterated by a meteor—1968's biggest flex.

Director
Ishirō Honda
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was originally intended to be the final Godzilla film, hence the 'all monsters' blowout. Toho's bankruptcy fears were greatly exaggerated.
The Kilaaks' hive-mind matriarchy and metallic fashion directly channel 1960s anxieties about communism AND second-wave feminism. Honda packed layers into his cheese.
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