Terror of Mechagodzilla

Ishiro Honda got pulled out of sort-of retirement doing nothing but television work to make his final feature film as a director and the final Godzilla film of the Showa Era before economic pressures became the main brake on any more for almost a decade. Honestly, I was just happy to see the film work towards a bit of pathos and actually reach it in its own modest way. Sure, it’s nowhere close to Honda’s best film (Farewell Rabaul had little competition at the top), but it’s fighting for the...