Background and Trivia |
- Toho submitted the film to the US copyright office on December 11th, 1992 with the registration number of PA0000595595. The title on the copyright claim was listed as Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah and a variant that replaces "vs." with the Romaji "tai", Godzilla tai King Ghidorah. This listing is notable for the fact that Toho already stopped using the movie's original international title of Godzilla vs. King Ghidora by this time. The movie was also the last Godzilla film submitted to the US copyright office until 1996, when the other Heisei series titles were submitted.
- Producer Shogo Tomiyama was the one that selected Kenji Sahara to appear in the film. This fact is mentioned in Age of the Gods (self-published).
- When asked about his reluctance to return to scoring Godzilla films, composer Akira Ifukube admitted he declined to work on Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989). However, his daughter pointed out that, beyond the Ostinato music, they also reworked one of Ifukube's themes into the track "Bio Wars" in a contemporary style. With the composer unhappy about this, his daughter encouraged him to return to movie scoring on the franchise to have control over his themes. This resulted in the composer taking the job on Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah. These details are found in the 1999 magazine G-Fan #41.
- At the restaurant run by Ikehata, a former Lagos Island soldier, there is a poster for the movie Imperial Navy (1981).
- Godzilla (1954) director Ishiro Honda was displeased with the Lagos Island scene, in particular the death of the American soldiers. He has said in interviews that he felt the movie's director, Kazuki Omori, "went too far" in this sequence. This information can be found in Age of the Gods (self-published).
- In talking about the Lagos Island scene after the movie was released, director Kazuki Omori noted "I am not anti-American… I just wanted to make a movie with American army people in it… I love American war movies, but looking at all the ones I've watched over the years, Americans never lose. And so I thought they should lose at least once!" Mentioned in The Sons of Godzilla: From Destroyer to Defender (CreateSpace Independent).
- The Japanese air force allowed Toho to use actual footage of F-15 jets in the movie, which were incorporated into a sequence that became an air battle with King Ghidorah. This approval came late into development, the day before the movie was going to be scored in fact. As a result, Akira Ifukube didn't have time to write a new theme and instead used a stock cue from Ostinato that revamped a cue from Rodan (1956) involving a similar air battle. This fact was mentioned in the magazine G-Fan #41.
- During a press conference before the movie was released, producer Tomoyuki Tanaka lamented that with the prior film, Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989), they "failed to make a story which could be fully enjoyed by children, it was too adult. So with the new film, we will make it more engaging for children." Noted in The Sons of Godzilla: From Destroyer to Defender (CreateSpace Independent).
- Special Effects director Koichi Kawakita won the Japanese Academy Award in special effects for his work on this film.
- The first film in the series with costumes constructed by Tomomi Kobayashi, formerly a pupil of Nobuyuki Yasamaru. This is noted in The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Godzilla (self-published).
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