Directed by Kazuki Omori • 1991 • Japan
Starring Katsuhiko Sasaki, Kosuke Toyohara, Anna Nakagawa

The eighteenth film in the Godzilla franchise puts a time-traveling twist on the The King of the Monsters’ ever-evolving mythology as nefarious actors from the future go back in time to engineer the rise of the three-headed dragon King Ghidorah, erase Godzilla from history, and stop Japan’s economic ascent. Less serious in tone than the other Heisei-era films that preceded it, this wildly plotted installment recaptures some of the Showa era silliness and tops things off with a rousing final battle between Godzilla and a rad metallic Ghidorah.