Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971) - Credits and Details

Godzilla vs. Hedorah Credits and Details

Directed by
	Yoshimitsu Banno
	Ishirô Honda	...	earlier film clips / uncredited
Written by
	Yoshimitsu Banno	...	screenplay
	Takeshi Kimura	...	screenplay
Cast
	Akira Yamanouchi	...	Dr. Toru Yano (as Akira Yamauchi)
	Toshie Kimura	...	Toshie Yano
	Hiroyuki Kawase	...	Ken Yano
	Toshio Shiba	...	Yukio Keuchi
	Keiko Mari	...	Miki Fujiyama
	Yoshio Yoshida	...	Gohei - a fisherman
	Haruo Suzuki	...	JSDF Officer
	Yoshio Katsube	...	JSDF Engineer
	Susumu Okabe	...	Announcer A
	Kentaro Watanabe	...	Announcer B
	Wataru Ômae	...	Police Officer
	Tadashi Okabe	...	Scientist
	Shigeo Katô	...	Screaming Construction Worker
	Takuya Yuki	...	Correspondent
	Eisaburo Komatsu	...	Non Commissioned Officer
	Yukihiko Gondô	...	Helicopter Pilot
	Haruo Nakazawa	...	Youth
	Akio Kusama	...	Person on TV screen
	Yasuzô Ogawa	...	Fleeing Citizen
	Kôji Uruki	...	Fleeing Citizen
	Kenpachirô Satsuma	...	Hedorah (as Kengo Nakayama)
	Hiroshi Akitsu	...	Old Man in the shadows
	Haruya Sakamoto
	Sôji Ubukata	...	Senior Man
Uncredited Cast
	Kôichi Kawakita	...	Bar Patron
	Haruo Nakajima	...	Godzilla (Kaiju) / Citizen appealing government to Hedora / Officer
Produced by
	Samuel Z. Arkoff	...	executive producer
	Tomoyuki Tanaka	...	executive producer
Original Music by
	Riichirô Manabe
Special Effects by
	Saburo Doi	...	mat processing
	Teruyoshi Nakano	...	director of special effects
	Shôji Okawa	...	special effects wire work
	Yoshio Tabuchi	...	assistant director of special effects
	Tadaaki Watanabe	...	special effects
	Takeshi Yamamoto	...	special effects assistant
	Nobuyuki Yasumaru	...	prosthetics creator
Visual Effects by
	Yôichi Manoda	...	special effects cinematographer
	Yoshiyuki Tokumasa	...	optical photography
Stunts
	Haruo Nakajima	...	stunt choreographer
	Yoshimitsu Banno	...	underwater stunt double

Additional Info
Premiere:	July 24, 1971
Theatrical Release:	February 1972
DVD Release:	October 19, 2004
Blu-ray Release:	May 06, 2014
Countries:
Distributor:	The Criterion Collection
Websites:

Ratings
5.4 / 10	6.1 / 10

Alternate Titles
Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster

Production Companies
Toho

Distributors
American International Pictures (AIP) (1972) (United States) (dubbed) (theatrical)
American-International Television (AIP-TV) (1974) (United States) (dubbed) (syndication) (TV)
Image Entertainment (1989) (United States) (laserdisc) (video)
Orion Home Video (1989) (United States) (VHS)
Simitar Entertainment (1990) (United States) (unlicensed) (VHS)
Columbia TriStar Home Video (2004) (United States) (DVD)
The Criterion Collection (2019) (United States) (Blu-ray)
HBO Max (2020) (United States) (VOD) (video)

Filming Locations
Mt. Fuji, Japan

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