Godzilla vs. Hedorah
Godzilla vs. Hedorah is a 1971 film from Japan, directed by Yoshimitsu Banno, running 96 minutes. reelscum files it under kaiju & tokusatsu.
- Year
- 1971 · 1970s films
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Director
- Yoshimitsu Banno
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- known (24/100)
- Also known as
- Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster · Godzilla 11 - Godzilla vs. Hedorah
Defined in the glossary: Kaiju & tokusatsu
The psychedelic pollution one. Godzilla fights a smog monster, and the film goes completely strange.
The most experimental and divisive Godzilla film, in which the king of monsters battles Hedorah, a shape-shifting creature born from industrial pollution and sludge. Director Yoshimitsu Banno lards it with psychedelic animated interludes, a lounge theme song about saving the Earth, and genuine environmental horror, including graphic human deaths.
Producer Tomoyuki Tanaka reportedly hated it, but it has been reappraised as a fascinatingly weird artifact of its ecological moment. Godzilla flies in this one, using his own atomic breath, to the eternal delight and confusion of fans. Nothing else in the series is like it.
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