Rebirth of Mothra

Rebirth of Mothra
Credits
Title:	Rebirth of Mothra
Directed by:	Okihiro Yoneda
Written by:	Masumi Suetani
Produced by:	Shogo Tomiyama; Hiroaki Kitayama
Music by:	Toshiyuki Watanabe
Production
Distributed by:	Toho Pictures
Released:	December 14th, 1996
Rating:	Unrated
Running time:	124 min.
Country:	Japan
Language:	Japanese
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Rebirth of Mothra (モスラ) is a Japanese science fiction/adventure film of the daikaiju genre. It is part of the greater Godzilla film series, but takes place within its own continuity, as the first installment of a three-part trilogy. The movie was directed by Okihiro Yoneda with a screenplay written by Masumi Suetani. It was produced by Toho Company, Ltd. and premiered in Japan on December 14th, 1996.

Cast

Actor	Role
Megumi Kobayashi	Moll
Sayaka Yamaguchi	Lora
Aki Hano	Belvera
Kazuki Futami	Taiki
Maya Fujisawa	Wakaba
Kenjiro Nashimoto	Mister Goto
Hitomi Takahashi	Mrs. Goto
Hiroko Tanaka	Shirasihi
Kyôkei Arakawa	Unknown

Notes & Trivia

• Mosura, aka Mothra, was created by Tomoyuki Tanaka. She first appeared in her own feature film, Mothra, produced by Toho Pictures in 1961.

• Rebirth of Mothra (1996) redirects to this page.

• There are a total of nine credited cast members in this film.

• One of the taglines for this film is "She's Mothra. She's back. And she's mad". Interestingly, it is one of the few times that a kaiju monster is assigned a female gender.

• The movie was produced on laserdisc in Japan where it was released under the title Mothra, Queen of Monsters. This link redirects to this page, as does Mothra: Queen of Monsters.

• Rebirth of Mothra was released on video in the United States on August 3rd, 1999. It was distributed through Columbia/TriStar Pictures and included an English dubbing.

• Rebirth of Mothra grossed 1.15 billion yen in Japan.

• The U.S. video release of Rebirth of Mothra was also packaged with Rebirth of Mothra II as a double feature. A triple-feature Blu-ray set of all three films was produced by Sony Pictures and released on September 9th, 2014. The Rebirth of Mothra trilogy was released on Blu-ray in Japan in November, 2017.

• Mothra has had more spin-off films of the greater Godzilla mythos than any other related kaiju.

Recommendations

• Godzilla vs. Mothra
• Mothra
• Rebirth of Mothra II
• Rebirth of Mothra III

See also

Media

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External Links

• Rebirth of Mothra at IMDB
• Rebirth of Mothra at Wikipedia
• Rebirth of Mothra at Themoviedb.org
• Rebirth of Mothra at Popcorn Pictures
• Rebirth of Mothra at the Godzilla Wiki

References

Births | Death Ghidorah | Dragons | Fairies | Flight | Ghidorah | Giant monster | Hokkaidō | Insects | Japan | Kaiju | Mosura | Moths | Shobijin | Tokyo | Winged flight

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