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Article: 5.7
Date: 9/05/05
Last Update: 4/03/07

A collection of references (either through memorabilia, characters, or the movies themselves) in other studios' films to Toho's many produced and distributed releases.

Movie: Friday the 13th Part III (1982)
 Reference: Godzilla (1954); Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973)
A scene in Friday the 13th Part III where a woman sits down on a hammock and opens a Fangoria magazine to flip through a few pages before finding one that has the words: "25 years with Godzilla". She looks at it for a moment before blood from a murdered friend drips down and she is killed by Jason Voorhees.
Credit: mitchal

Movie: Creepshow (1982)
 Reference: Godzilla Series (-); Rodan (1956)
The opening scene in Creepshow; a boy is being punished by his abusive father for reading the creepshow comic book. After the boy is smacked in the face, it shows the different toys that he keeps in his room. Two of the toys are figures of Rodan and Godzilla.
Credit: mitchal

Movie: Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)
 Reference: Godzilla Series (-)
Arguably the most famous onscreen reference to a Toho character, Tim Burton's Pee-wee's Big Adventure features a sequence in which the title character travels through Warner Bros studios with his bike, and stumbles upon a Godzilla film in progress with the nuclear menace fighting King Ghidorah.

Movie: Stephen King's It (1990)
 Reference: Godzilla Series (-)
A Godzilla-shaped floater can be seen on Richie Tozier's pool after he recieves a phonecall from Derry. Richie also references the power lines sequence from Godzilla (1954), earlier in the scene.
Credit: Hank Xavier

Movie: Ed Wood (1994)
 Reference: Half Human (1955)
A quick sighting in director Tim Burton's biopic on the infamous life of filmmaker Ed Wood, as a poster (US version) of the 1955 Ishiro Honda film can be seen during the scene that Bela Lugosi (played by Martin Landau) begins to recite his lines from Bride of the Monster as a crowd gathers.

Movie: Street Fighter (1994)
 Reference: King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)
During the raid of Bison's lair in the 1994 live-action Street Fighter, a Japanese-speaking unit manages to tap into the base's security through a remote console. A security camera shows E. Honda (A Hawaiian Sumo wrestler) fighting Zangief (a hulking Russian brute) amidst a cardboard city while the sounds of Godzilla and King Kong are heard. It should be noted that in the original Street Fighter video game series E. Honda was of Japanese decent.
Credit: Kane_Locke

Movie: Mars Attacks! (1996)
 Reference: Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989)
Another movie from Tim Burton, Mars Attacks! features another reference to Godzilla's character. During the Martians' worldwide invasion, footage from Godzilla vs. Biollante (Godzilla attacking Osaka) is shown. First we're supposed to think it's actually happening, but the next second we learn the Martians are only watching the movie on TV, just before they switch to The Dukes of Hazzard.
Credit: G-Matt

Movie: Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)
 Reference: Godzilla, Mothra & King Ghidorah (2001)
A very subtle reference found in the first volume of Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill during the Tokyo arrival scene, as the airplane flies over the Tokyo cityscape, which is the Yokohama set from Godzilla, Mothra & King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack and compliments of the movie's production coordinator in Japan: Shinji Higuchi.