Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster

Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, released in Japan as San Daikaijū: Chikyū Saidai no Kessen (三大怪獣　地球最大の決戦, lit. "Three Giant Strange Beasts: Earth's Greatest Battle"), is a 1964 Japanese science fiction Kaiju film in which after a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo and Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla and Rodan to battle the extraterrestrial threat.

Directed by Ishirō Honda.  Written by Shinichi Sekizawa.

The Three-Headed Monster battles Godzilla, Mothra and Rodan for the world!  (tagline)

UFO Expert

• [on the disappearance of the princess] I think she survived because she fell into a gap between dimensions. You may not be aware of this... but there are other dimensions besides those we know. And there's a whole other world therein. The explosion created a gap between the two worlds. She was saved when she fell into it.

Dialogue

Mas Selina Salno, Princess of Sergina: Why does no one pay heed to my warning? The entire human race will perish from the Earth. When the monster Ghidorah passes, only flaming ruins are left...

Detective Shindo: Ghidorah?

Mas Selina Salno, Princess of Sergina: Centuries ago, the monster appeared in the skies of Mars. Within a month, the culture of Mars had been wiped out completely. The civilization on my planet had reached a stage of development which you people will not achieve for a long time. Centuries, at least. Today, because of the space monster, it is a dead world. Dead and uninhabited.

Dr. Tsukamoto: It would be a bad situation if that creature came here to Earth.

Mas Selina Salno, Princess of Sergina: It's worse, because he's arrived.

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Naoko Shindo: [as Mothra converses with Godzilla and Rodan] Mothra's talking to them. What do you think she's saying?

Detective Shindo: How would I know? I don't speak monster!

[Everyone turns to the fairies]

Professor Miura: What's she saying?

Shobijin, Shobijin: She's trying to persuade them, but they're not convinced. "Let's stop fighting each other. Let's join forces and protect the Earth from King Ghidorah."

Naoko Shindo: Do Godzilla and Rodan agree?

Shobijin, Shobijin: No, they say they don't care. They say it's none of their business.

Professor Miura: Damn them!

Detective Shindo: Those bastards!

Shobijin, Shobijin: Godzilla's saying, "We have no reason to help humans. Humans are always bullying us." Rodan says he agrees.

Tagline

• The Three-Headed Monster battles Godzilla, Mothra and Rodan for the world!

Cast

• Yosuke Natsuki — Detective Shindo
• Yuriko Hoshi — Naoko Shindo
• Hiroshi Koizumi — Professor Miura
• Akiko Wakabayashi — Princess Selina Salno of Selgina
• Takashi Shimura — Dr. Tsukamoto
• Hisaya Ito — Malness, Chief assassin
• Akihiko Hirata — Chief Detective Okita
• Kenji Sahara — Kanamaki, Naoko's editor
• The Peanuts — Shobijin

• Somesho Matsumoto — UFO expert
• Ikio Sawamura — Fisherman
• Kozo Nomura — Murai's Assistant
• Susumu Kurobe, Kazuo Suzuki Toru Ibuki — Assassins Malness henchman
• Haruya Kato — journalist
• Shin Otomo — leader of the Assassins Malness boss
• Senkichi Omura — Hat Retriever
• Eisei Amamoto — Wu, Butler

• Yutaka Nakayama — tourist (lost hat)
• Yutaka Oka — meteorite scientist
• Yoshio Kosugi — Chief of Infant Island
• Heihachiro Okawa — astronomer
• Yoshifumi Tajima — ship captain
• Haruo Nakajima — Godzilla
• Masaki Shinohara — Rodan
• Shoichi Hirose — King Ghidorah

External links

• Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster quotes at the Internet Movie Database
• Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster at Rotten Tomatoes
• 三大怪獣　地球最大の決戦 (San Daikaijū: Chikyū Saidai no Kessen) (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved on 2007-07-16.