Directed by Ishirô Honda Written by Shin'ichi Sekizawa Cast Akira Takarada ... Ichiro Sakai Yuriko Hoshi ... Junko Nakanishi Hiroshi Koizumi ... Professor Miura Yû Fujiki ... Jiro Nakamura Kenji Sahara ... Jiro Torahata Emi Itô ... Shobijin (Twin Fairy) Yumi Itô ... Shobijin (Twin Fairy) Yoshifumi Tajima ... Kumayama Jun Tazaki ... Murata, Newspaper Editor Kenzô Tabu ... Mayor Yoshio Kosugi ... Chief of Infant Island Akira Tani ... Village Headman Susumu Fujita ... JSDF General Yutaka Sada ... School Principal Ikio Sawamura ... Priest Ren Yamamoto ... Sailor Kôzô Nomura ... Soldier Yasuhisa Tsutsumi ... Police Officer Mitsuo Tsuda   Shin Ôtomo ... Police Officer Senkichi Ômura ... Villager Miki Yashiro ... Schoolteacher Kôji Iwamoto   Terumi Oka   Wataru Ômae ... Islander Shirô Tsuchiya   Takuzô Kumagai   Kôji Uno ... Villager Yutaka Nakayama ... Islander Toshihiko Furuta ... Soldier Hideo Shibuya ... Journalist Kôji Uruki   Kenzô Echigo   Yukihiko Gondô   Kôichi Satô   Hiroshi Akitsu   Tadashi Okabe ... Soldier Haruya Sakamoto   Seishirô Kuno ... Aide Hiroshi Takagi   Keisuke Yamada   Shinjirô Hirota   Shigemi Sunagawa   Ikuo Kawamura   Rinsaku Ogata   Haruo Suzuki   Katsumi Tezuka ... Mothra Haruo Nakajima ... Gojira Uncredited Cast Harold Conway ... Weapon's Expert on US Ship Robert Dunham ... US Navy Soldier Osman Yusuf ... Missile Surveyor on US Ship Produced by Sanezumi Fujimoto Tomoyuki Tanaka Original Music by Akira Ifukube

Additional Info Premiere: April 29, 1964 Theatrical Release: September 17, 1964 DVD Release: May 06, 1998 Blu-ray Release: October 29, 2019 Country: Distributor: The Criterion Collection Websites: Alternate Titles Godzilla Against Mothra Godzilla Fights The Giant Moth Godzilla vs. The Thing Mosura Tai Gojira Panik In Tokyo Production Companies Toho Distributors American International Pictures (AIP)   (1964) (USA) (theatrical) (dubbed) Paramount Home Entertainment   (1983) (USA) (VHS) Simitar Entertainment   (1998) (USA) (DVD) (widescreen) Simitar Entertainment   (1999) (USA) (DVD) (widescreen) Sony Music   (2002) (USA) (DVD) Classic Media   (2007) (USA) (DVD) Genius Products   (2007) (USA) (DVD) Sony Pictures Home Entertainment   (2007) (USA) (DVD) Sony BMG Music Entertainment   (2007) (USA) (DVD) Anderson Digital   (2013) (USA) (video) (Digital) The Criterion Collection   (2019) (USA) (Blu-ray) Rating Stats Overall Rating 6.5 / 10 Our Rating 6.7 / 10 Your Friends -- / 10 Male Users 6.7 / 10 Female Users -- / 10 Site Ranking #4,576 / 20,690 Ratings Breakdown Perfect 3 total ratings Average 1 total rating Site Ranking #4,572 The Dentist (1996) #4,573 Lawnmower Man 2: Jobe's War (1996) #4,574 The In Between (2022) #4,575 NOS4A2: Season 1 (2019) #4,576 Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964) #4,577 An American Carol (2008) #4,578 Polite Society (2023) #4,579 Doctor Dolittle (1967) #4,580 Awoken (2019)