The 27th film in the Godzilla franchise and the fourth film in the Millennium period, this was directed by Masaaki Tezuka and written by Wataru Mimura. In this timeline, the order of movies are Godzilla, Godzilla 2000, Godzilla vs. Megaguirus and Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack before this and Godzilla: Tokyo S. O. S. And Godzilla: Final Wars.
45 years after the original Godzilla attacked the world, maser-cannon technician Lieutenant Akane Yashiro (Yumiko Shaku) struggles to win over her fellow Japan Self-Defense Force soldiers when her failure to stop a new kaiju leads to several soldiers dying. Yet she's picked to pilot the tool they will use to fight back, Kiryu, which is a cyborg built on the corpse of the first Godzilla. You may know it better as Mechagodzilla. Kikai-ryu means "machine dragon."
The problem is that the new Godzilla's roar unlocks memories in Kiryu which cause it to destroy humans. Yashiro must also win the respect of 2nd Lieutenant Susumu Hayama (Yusuke Tomoi), the heart of Tokumitsu Yuhara (Shin Takuma) and learn how to use the Absolute Zero Cannon to stop the new Godzilla before it destroys Tokyo.
Japanese baseball player Hideki Matsui, whose nickname is Gojira and who played for the Yomiuri Giants, the New York Yankees, the Los Angeles Angels, the Oakland Athletics and the Tampa Bay Rays before finishing his career with the Yankees, shows up in the movie. He's hitting a home run when Kiryu shows up and also saves some children later in the movie.
Another cameo is Kumi Mizuno. She's the Prime Minister in this but may be better known as Miss Namikawa in Invasion of Astro-Monster, Dr. Sueko Togami in Frankenstein Conquers the World and the island girl Dayo in Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster.
45 years after the original Godzilla attacked the world, maser-cannon technician Lieutenant Akane Yashiro (Yumiko Shaku) struggles to win over her fellow Japan Self-Defense Force soldiers when her failure to stop a new kaiju leads to several soldiers dying. Yet she's picked to pilot the tool they will use to fight back, Kiryu, which is a cyborg built on the corpse of the first Godzilla. You may know it better as Mechagodzilla. Kikai-ryu means "machine dragon."
The problem is that the new Godzilla's roar unlocks memories in Kiryu which cause it to destroy humans. Yashiro must also win the respect of 2nd Lieutenant Susumu Hayama (Yusuke Tomoi), the heart of Tokumitsu Yuhara (Shin Takuma) and learn how to use the Absolute Zero Cannon to stop the new Godzilla before it destroys Tokyo.
Japanese baseball player Hideki Matsui, whose nickname is Gojira and who played for the Yomiuri Giants, the New York Yankees, the Los Angeles Angels, the Oakland Athletics and the Tampa Bay Rays before finishing his career with the Yankees, shows up in the movie. He's hitting a home run when Kiryu shows up and also saves some children later in the movie.
Another cameo is Kumi Mizuno. She's the Prime Minister in this but may be better known as Miss Namikawa in Invasion of Astro-Monster, Dr. Sueko Togami in Frankenstein Conquers the World and the island girl Dayo in Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster.