Ben Mankiewicz Intro - Mothra Vs. Godzilla (a.k.a. Godzilla Vs. The Thing) - (1964)

Mothra Vs. Godzilla (1964) -- (Movie Clip) Mothra Asks For Your Help, Too!

The professor (Hiroshi Koizumi) is explaining to newsman Ichiro (Akira Takarada) about the crooked business guys and thinks Junko (Yuriko Hoshi) is interrupting but it’s really the tiny “Peanuts,” (the singing pop-star twins Emi and Yumi Ito, who had been a sensation in their first movie appearance in the original Mothra 1962) now providing their whole back-story about the giant egg, and its (title character) mommy, in Mothra Vs. Godzilla, 1964.

Mothra Vs. Godzilla (1964) -- (Movie Clip) Beauty Amid Utter Destruction

After a cracking (if miniature) opening with a typhoon wrecking a coastal reclamation project, the aftermath with Yuriko Hoshi as a news photographer, Akira Takarada her annoyed reporter colleague, and Kenzo Tadake a craven local politician, in the fourth feature in the Toho Films franchise, Mothra Vs. Godzilla, 1964.

Mothra Vs. Godzilla (1964) -- (Movie Clip) Godzilla, The Atomic Monster

There’s still no explanation for the radioactive readings near the typhoon-damaged coast and reporter Ichiro (Akira Takarada) is about to agree it’s no big deal when his partner photographer Junko (Yuriko Hoshi) sees the problem, in Toho Films’ Mothra Vs. Godzilla, 1964.

Mothra Vs. Godzilla (1964) -- (Movie Clip) Could This Egg Be Dangerous?

The day after a typhoon, now a huge egg has washed ashore, so reporter Ichiro (Akira Takarada) and photographer Junko (Yuriko Hoshi) waylay Professor Miura (Hiroshi Koizumi) who’s been called in to investigate before a nutty entrepreneur guy (Yoshifumi Tajima as Kumuyama) intervenes, early in Mothra Vs. Godzilla, 1964.