2014 marks the 60th anniversary of the release of the original Gojira in 1954 and the new Godzilla 2014 reboot from Legendary Pictures is the 30th Godzilla film, 28 from Japan and 2 from America.
Toho’s (the Japanese Studio responsible for Godzilla) Godzilla movies can be broken down into three series:
1. The Showa series: 15 movies from Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1954) to Terror of Mechagodzilla(1975). (The term Showa comes from the name of the Japanese emperor of the day.)
2. The Heisei series: 7 movies from Godzilla 1985 (1984) to Godzilla vs. Destroyah (1995) (This series takes its name from the current Japanese emperor.)
3. The Millennium series: 6 movies from Godzilla 2000 (1999) to Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)
American Godzilla Films
Godzilla(1998) Tri-star and Sony film directed by Ronald Emmerich and starring Mathew Broderick.
Godzilla(2014) Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. directed by Gareth Edwards and starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Bryan Cranson, and Ken Watnabe.
Godzilla Filmography
- Godzilla (1954)
- Godzilla Raids Again (1955)
- King Kong Vs. Godzilla (1962)
- Godzilla Vs. Mothra (1964)
- Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)
- Godzilla Vs. Monster Zero (1965)
- Godzilla Vs. the Sea Monster (1966)
- Son of Godzilla (1967)
- Destroy All Monsters (1968)
- Godzilla's Revenge (1969)
- Godzilla Vs. Hedorah (1971)
- Godzilla Vs. Gigan (1972)
- Godzilla Vs. Megalon (1973)
- Godzilla Vs. Mechagodzilla (1974)
- Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)
- Godzilla 1985 (1985)
- Godzilla Vs. Biollante (1989)
- Godzilla Vs. King Ghidorah (1991)
- Godzilla & Mothra: The Battle for Earth (1992)
- Godzilla Vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993)
- Godzilla Vs. Spacegodzilla (1994)
- Godzilla Vs. Destoroyah (1995)
- Godzilla (1998)
- Godzilla 2000: Millennium (2000)
- Godzilla Vs. Megaguirus (2000)
- Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001)
- Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002)
- Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (2003)
- Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)
- Godzilla (2014)
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