Toho Marks 50th Anniversary of Godzilla vs. Hedorah With Short Film Rematch

Godzilla battled Hedorah 50 years ago, and Toho has released a short film depicting a rematch between the two. The official Godzilla YouTube channel released the short film on Wednesday, which you can check out below and was directed by Kazuhiro Nakagawa.

The original film was directed by Yoshimitsu Banno and released on July 24th, 1971 in Japan. It was described as follows:

Gojira, defender of the Earth, has become a national phenomenon, akin to the Loch Ness Monster, especially with children, ingrained into the Japanese consciousness. However, the Japanese people still don’t realize that destroying the earth will summon the millennias-old protector. A young boy finds a dangerous monster that thrives on toxic waste that he names Hedorâ, a pun on the Japanese word for sludge, “hedoro.” In his dreams, he wishes for Gojira to defeat Hedorâ and, hopefully, persuade people to stop polluting the earth. Gojira, coincidentally, fights the monster because of the destruction to the environment.