Son of Godzilla

Plot[edit | edit source] A team of scientists try to perfect a weather-controlling system, but their efforts are hampered by the arrival of a nosy reporter and the presence of giant mantises. A reporter, Maki Goro, arrives on the island to find the scientists somewhat disturbed from the events, and is allowed to stay as a maintenance worker. Whilst there, he also glimpses a mysterious woman, whom the scientists were unaware of, apparently living in the jungle. The first test of the weather control system goes awry when the remote control for a radioactive balloon is jammed by an unexplained signal coming from the center of the island. Eventually finding the woman, Saeko Matsumiya, she is revealed to be the daughter of a previous researcher on the island who warned about a gigantic species of spider. The balloon detonates prematurely, creating a radioactive storm that causes the giant mantises to grow to enormous sizes. Investigating the mantises, which are named Kamacuras, the scientists find the monstrous insects digging an egg out from under a pile of earth. The egg hatches to reveal an infant Godzilla named Minilla, and the scientists realize that his telepathic cries for help were the cause of the interference that ruined their experiment. Shortly afterwards, Godzilla arrives on the island in response to Minilla's cries, and demolishes the scientists' base while rushing to defend him. Godzilla kills two of the Kamacuras during the battle while one manages to fly away to safety. Saeko introduces herself to and bonds with Minilla by feeding him a mango. Godzilla then returns and adopts Minilla as his son. Minilla quickly grows to about half the size of his father, and Godzilla begins instructing him on roaring and using his atomic ray, as Maki and Saeko observe them. At first, Minilla has difficulty producing anything besides atomic smoke rings, but Godzilla realizes that stressful conditions (such as stepping on his tail) or motivation produces a true radioactive blast. Minilla comes to the aid of Saeko when she is attacked by a Kamacuras, but he inadvertently awakens Kumonga, a giant spider that was sleeping in a valley which Saeko's father witnessed roaming on the island before. Kumonga attacks Saeko's cave where the scientists are hiding and Minilla stumbles into battle. Kumonga traps Minilla and the final Kamacuras with its webbing, but as Kumonga begins to feed on the dead Kamacuras, Godzilla arrives and saves Minilla. They both work together to defeat Kumonga by using their atomic rays to kill it. Hoping to keep the monsters from interfering in their attempt to escape the island, the scientists finally use their perfected weather altering device on the island and the once tropical island becomes buried in snow and ice. As the scientists are saved by an American submarine, Godzilla and Minilla embrace and begin to hibernate as they wait for the island to become tropical again.