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Another great film that included time travel, androids, cyborg monsters not seen since Godzilla vs. Gigan, and the return of King Ghidorah, who didn't look as good as he used to, but was still pretty cool. This film also revealed the much-speculated origin of Godzilla himself! Enough of this, onto the synopsis...
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In 1991, Teresawa, an author of science fiction books, believes that he has discovered the origin of Godzilla. During World War II, a group of Japanese soldiers stationed on Lagos Island were protected from the Americans by a giant dinosaur called Godzillasaurus. Weeks later, the soldiers left the island for Japan, leaving the dinosaur on the island, however, the island was destroyed by a hydrogen bomb test in 1954, months before Godzilla first appeared near Odo Island and then attacked Tokyo. Shindo, the commander of the Lago’s troops, is now a powerful businessman in Japan who denies ever seeing a real life dinosaur. Meanwhile, a UFO lands on Mount Fuji and the JSDF investigates, being greeted by holograms of the crew which are inside the ship. The crew consists of two American men, Gurenchiko and Wilson, a Japanese woman named Emi Kano, and an android dubbed M11. The “Futurians” explain that they are from the year 2204, but in the future, there is not Japan because Godzilla completely destroyed the nation. They also claim that they can go back to the 1940s and teleport the Godzillasaurus to another island, thereby avoiding the hydrogen bomb and the creation of Godzilla. Teresawa, Miki Saegusa, and Professor Mazaki are requested by the Futurians to comes along and they do so, boarding the time machine with Emi Kano and M11, then travel back in time to Lagos Island and witness the U.S. invasion of the island in 1944. The Godzillasaurus forces the Americans back, killing all that are on the island, but it wounded by the U.S. naval ships. After the Japanese troops leave, the Futurians teleport the Godzillasaurus from Lagos Island to the Bering Seabefore returning to 1991, but before they left, the Futurians release three, bio-engineered creatures called Dorats onto the island.
When the time travelers return to the present, they find out that Godzilla has indeed vanished, but a new, three-headed monster called King Ghidorah has appeared, looking very similar to the Dorats. Emi soon discovers that Wilson and Gurenchiko control King Ghidorah from the main time ship and secretly reprograms android M11 to help her in her quest and also warns Terasawa. The Futurians soon tell the Japanese their intent, but they refuse to surrender and begin trying to come up with plans to attack them. Shindo brings up the idea that Godzilla can be re-created by using his nuclear submarine to blast the Godzillasaurus in the Bering Sea with a dose of nuclear energy. However, on the submarine’s mission, it is destroyed by an already re-created, bigger, and much more powerful Godzilla, which was re-created by a sunken Russian nuclear submarine. Godzilla soon comes to Japan and battles King Ghidorah, quickly defeating him and sending the three-headed monster plummeting into the ocean before destroying the Futurians time ship before advancing on Tokyo. But Emi and M11 escape to the future in their time shuttle where they revive King Ghidorah with 23rd Century technology and create the cyborg Mecha-King Ghidorah, who travels back to 1991 to face Godzilla during his attack on Tokyo. The two kaiju engage in battle and in the end, Mecha-King Ghidorah captures Godzilla with his “Machine-Hand” and carries the King of the Monsters out to sea, but Godzilla blasts the cyborg at point-blank range with his heat ray and both monsters plummet into the ocean below. Godzilla soon revives, however, and ventures off into the ocean depths.
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