Around the time, Tomoyuki Tanaka had decided to take a step back as the head producer of Godzilla films, and formally retired from it with this movie before the filming began. He would appoint his protégé Shogo Tomiyama to take over his role, to which Tomiyama took quite seriously with how much of a role he had to live up to while also having his own benchmark on it.
Author: Li-Li 莉莉
Raised with medias like Star Wars, Doctor Who, Hong Kong wuxias, and later tokusatsu: Li-Li 莉莉 had an innate desire to share these passions with people that may not have known or experienced any of these curiosities, so she turned to writing to pass on their love of what went on the screen and went behind the screens of these features. Whether it was about the troubled productions of television shows like the Hartnell era of Doctor Who or the miracles of how films such as Godzilla vs Biollante were turned into what it is seen on the silver screen. Outside of it, Li-Li 莉莉 mainly is watching films and television and occasionally playing video games.
Heisei Godzilla Retrospective: GODZILLA (1984)
The story of Godzilla (1984) is a ride that was started from the cries of the fandom for more, and as a film it succeeded for many fans for giving them that taste they had long since missed for the near 10 years since the last Japanese production. The film spawned a new era of Godzilla films and fandom, defining what Godzilla means to many and, in some ways, Toho themselves.