Godzilla vs. Biollante 1989
Directed by Kazuki Ōmori · 105 mins · 1,592 views
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SO many wireframe readouts of Godzilla’s big chonky bod…love love love
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i have the flu and a hundred degree fever so i’m watching lots of movies and resting. anyway, this movie fucks.
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I was too harsh on this when I first saw it. There’s more Godzilla than usual, the human stories have some blockbuster thrust to them, and Biollante is one hell of an original design. Godzilla’s face is particularly menacing after decades of his ping-pong eyed look. It’s funny that almost nothing that happens in this movie matters, but it piles on the 90s love of psychics, commandoes and slurpy creatures. Like most of the Evil Godzilla films, once they defeat him, he just gets up a few minutes later and wanders away anyway. Maybe he’ll attack tomorrow? Like depression, Godzilla is a monster that can be temporarily tamed, but never truly defeated. The Heisei’s era drab visual look is definitely something I struggle with after the pop-art style of all the colour Showa films.
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Godzilla and Friends Marathon: 31 of 46 What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, By any other name would smell as sweet. – William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet Sure, but not when that name is Biollante. Yeah, Biollante is basically a kaiju created by combining Godzilla’s cells with a rose. It may sound a little silly to have a movie where Godzilla fights a giant flower, but it’s entertaining as hell. Godzilla vs. Biollante picks up where the preceding film leaves off. It continues the more serious tone, but also mixes in some of the craziness of the Shōwa era as well. It basically takes The Return of Godzilla and cranks it up to eleven. There’s much…
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A Walk Amongst Monsters #63 “We are a lethal weapon!” At what point are you considered a mad scientist? I’m going with “combining Godzilla’s cells with a rose containing your dead daughter’s soul” as the threshold. I mean, it’s one way to create your Kaiju opponent. And luckily enough it’s the good guy! But unfortunately it’s a plant and Godzilla breathes atomic fire, the odds aren’t in your favor is what I’m saying. This keeps with the Cold War tensions from the last film by having the central plot be an arms race with multiple countries trying to obtain Godzilla’s cells. A good portion of the opening stretch is just different nations soldiers and spies killing each other and bombing…
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combines the seriousness and geopolitics of return of godzilla with the supernatural whimsy of mothra vs godzilla, to great effect. the introduction of psychics is very cool and fun, and i love the scene where dr shiragami is creating biollante late at night in his lab, rain pouring down, very gothic. i think the plot falters a bit when they try to do the spy stuff, i’m much more interested in the weird science, but it’s never really boring. biollante is a fantastic kaiju, kind of an inverse mechagodzilla if you think about it. her first form is so awe-inspiring. the shot of the giant rose in the lake is breathtaking, mystical, gorgeous. the mist surrounding her, her gentle movements,…
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Green blood goopfest that lives up to its amazing poster. The rubber suits look so good in this, the human plot is not too shabby either, and there’s some next level monster fighting—a perfect balance. I love this era of Godzilla so damn much. Seriously considering buying the poster for this right now.
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KAIJULY: GOJI RAAWRS! Movie: an incredibly tense, pretty fun film that keeps the trend of taking away all the silliness from Goji by turning him into this lethal, towering, destructive monster that just aims to wreak havoc and light-beams his path through Japan looking more monstrous and pissed with those big pointy teeth and roar of terror, all heightened by an awesome score that, when Goji blasts into the scream raises the tension and when it’s not, it either sustains the suspense or works in the fantasy through whimsical melodies. The whole human plot with the conspiracy, crazy experiments and military action. Bellora design looks really cool and she proves to be a pretty distressing and scary antagonist with the…
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rare for a godzilla film, the monster stuff is the weakest portion here, with the coolest looking godzilla enemy ending up just being a minor nuisance more than anything. human stuff is great michael crichton-esque biothriller fare, with tense shootouts and heady conversations about humanity’s burgeoning irresponsibility over technology
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Beginning to notice that Godzilla films are to Japan what the Bond films were to the UK in the late 20th century. The same drugs involved I assume
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Nothing to say here too beautiful and very nostalgic film the biollante is really cool and continues to be one of my most favorite kaiju
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Could have been much better if Biollante actually showed up. When I say she maybe had 5 minutes of screen time I mean it. It was depressing. Like she’s so cool so waisted in her own movie. I’m very upset about this.
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Biollante: half plant, half godzilla, 100% dead daughter.
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El concepto de Godzilla peleando contra una planta monstruo mutante es maravilloso, simplemente dudas uno de los enemigos más originales de Godzilla.
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Amazing movie in all
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История вообще хорошая, если бы только не эти вставки с американскими и арабскими агентами. Персонажи интересные, динамика и темы хороши. Потенциал большой, можно было бы тоже сделать качественный ремейк по этому сценарию
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Rrandy2themax 8 月 25, 2026
Seriously improved effects and cinematography in the Heisei era (cool miniatures, smoky nighttime cinematography… although Godzilla himself still pretty low-tech), but the human characters remain extremely forgettable. Biollante looks pretty cool. Also really funny that the villains are agents a fictional gulf Arab petro-state called “Saradia” where everyone speaks phonetic English.
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Je voulais plus de biollante 🧎🙏😔
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A Era Heisei continua, e ocorre a volta da preocupação nuclear em relação ao Godzilla, onde no final dos anos 80, em um período de Guerra Fria e contexto espacial, o medo científico da população se torna a engenharia e a possibilidade de transformar a vida em tecnologia, onde com um grande desenvolvimento do Japão, as grandes construções chegam e resulta no aumentar das qualidades. Que ideia foda de transformar as células do Godzilla no principal desejo de aquisição do…
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El pesimismo y cinismo de fin de siglo contagia a la serie. El trabajo de efectos especiales es particularmente bueno, con mejoras en el diseño y operación. De los los monstruos. Deja en claro la manera en que ambas criaturas son resultado de las ambiciones y errores humanos, no de la naturaleza; la destrucción del hombre será resultado de su propia ignorancia, y el costo medioambiental es obvio. Las escenas de cubo son geniales, y el desarrollo destrucción la historia tiene buen ritmo. Simplemente genial. Visualmente se nota la influencia de las culturas del manga y anime.
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Kksanatel 8 月 24, 2026
Kapanışına koptum, Godzilla “film bitti hadi bana müsaade” yaptı. 😂 Özel efektler güzeldi de Superman tema müziğini niye çorlama gereği duymuşlar anlamadım.
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Godzilla fights a flower monster harboring the soul of a dead child, but the movie seems way more interested in its subplot about evil Americans with thick Japanese accents perpetrating corporate espionage. I think it would be interesting to graph the sentiment toward America in Godzilla movies over the years, because it seems to be all over the place.
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meu amigo gojira me ajudando em momentos ruins
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“Kiss you boys” will stay with me forever. If I had to review this movie in one sentence, it would be “not enough Biollante”. This was a WEIRD one: styled after ’80s action flicks, thematically all over the place, with some really odd inclusions (psychic kids? A made-up evil Arabic country on top of the already evil USA megacorporations? Human souls are real and stored into genes, maybe?), and, unforgivably, very pro-military. At the same time, it was veeeeery funny,…
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Biollante is such a well written villain. grieving father just trying to hold on the last thing he has left of his daughter and he makes a monster. I love this monster. #1 biollante fan 👉👈
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Biollante y su famosa lluvia dorada
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2026 Cult Movie Challenge #44 – Week 34: Tokusatsu Week. I find this one a bit odd, mostly in terms of its tone, which feels confused in its own context as well as in the context being a sequel to Return of Godzilla/Godzilla ’85. I wasn’t expecting such an upbeat atmosphere in comparison to the last movie, and it really threw me off in a lot of scenes when the score starts playing it’s more wacky tracks. Not to say…
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crianças especiais, cortes bem secos, protocolos sobre protocolos de emergência (ataque de monstro gigante é uma coisa corriqueira no Japão), espionagem internacional. o hideaki anno garimpou só o melhor disso aqui
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nice ost
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Simplemente nadie puede contar Godzilla
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The fights between Godzilla and Biollante were lackluster. Easy work for Godzilla! With that being said, the characters were amazing, loved the plot, loved the acting. Some very cool scenes like the girl using psychokinesis on Zilla.
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CC-Bear 8 月 23, 2026
Biollante looking like one of the Parliament of Trees in Poison Ivy
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Date: 23/08/26 Watched at: Parents house Watched with: Alone Some of the best moments of the entire series so far, especially when she gets the ESP kids to paint their dreams and they’ve all drawn Godzilla – excellent. Also the “Godzilla Memorial Lounge” is truly great stuff. Biollante is one of the best designed monsters of the series so far, and the most impressive puppet design. Amazing how the performers managed all the tentacles and animatronics. When it stabs Godzilla…
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Godzilla and Biollante aren’t monsters. It’s the unscrupulous scientists who create them that are monsters. Godzilla vs biolante with the showa era done the human charicters are more a focus here and it’s one of the reasons it’s another great kaiju movie. It starts with english diolog and a news reporter covering the story of the events of godzilla destroying a whole advanced city in one day. The japenise goverment end up making biolante which is an anti nuclear something.…
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Biollante merece segundo round en el monsterverse.
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A planta não faz nada
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After listening to City Pop all day Sunday then going out for sushi, we had to get a Japanese movie in on Sunday night. Godzilla and Criterion, name a more iconic duo. I grew up on the Showa Era of Zilla movies so I don’t have any nostalgia for this one. Love the suits and the practical fx, the miniatures…all the hallmarks of a dope Zilla thrilla. This was a bit of a let down though. Maybe too much going on with the story. I couldn’t help but wonder though if Mr. Elden Ring himself, Miyazaki-sama was influenced by Biollante for some stuff in that game.
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BBruno 8 月 23, 2026
Hi Audrey, from Little Shop.of Horrors 👋🏽😁 Muito legal. O lance do monstro com a alma da filha do cientista é interessante no começo, mas meio que não levou a muita coisa fim da história. Nem mesmo o próprio cientista. Biollante é um monstro muito legal, mas aparece tão pouco
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Mesmo que as vezes a suas subtramas se atropelem e ocupem um pouco além do tempo de tela que poderiam, é uma boa continuação de “O Retorno de Godzilla ” e Biollante é um ótimo kaiju.
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Biollante was so nasty looking, I wanted Godzilla to kill it.
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Space rose
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Shin Godzilla ve Minus One dışında dönemi açısından görsel efektlerin en iyi olduğu film olabilir. Bir önceki film Return of Godzilla’nın hemen sonrasında başlaması, olayların bir köprü gibi bağlanması açısından keşke bu ikisi tek bir film olsaymış dedim izlerken. Ve maalesef en iyi Godzilla filmi listelerinde bu filmin adı geçmesine rağmen beni o kadar etkilemedi. Biyoteknoloji ve spiritüalizmin ön planda olmasıyla diğer Godzilla filmlerinden ayrılıyor kesinlikle ama bana göre vasatı aşamamış.
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Definitely on the higher end of this era of Godzilla films. A solid science fiction premise that has sort of an ecological message is a good foundation for the film. Then add in the pretty entertaining man in a suit destruction that typifies Godzilla films and you have yourself a pretty entertaining film. Recommended for fans of Kaiju movies but I also think it’s strong enough to appeal to broader audiences as well.
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tied with godzilla vs hedorah for my favorite godzilla movie
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AAustin Canady 8 月 22, 2026
言わせてもらうけど、この映画のゴジラって、歴代で一番「ブチ切れてる」顔をしてると思うんだよね。あの顔を見れば一目瞭然だよ。誰かにうっとうしいタイミングで起こされて、コーヒーを飲む暇すらなかった時の顔だもん。
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Big mouth with many teeth? Tentacles? John Williams sounding score? You can’t fool me, this is Revenge of the Sith!
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Los planos en 3D, el diseño de Biollante y sus peleas, el brutish inglish de todos los gaijins de la pelicula, el uso de pirotecnia y explosiones hasta en el agua, el supuesto yanki con una gorra de la bandera yanki, el final de Erika… ＴＲＥＭＥＮＤＡ ＰＥＬＩＣＵＬＡ!!!
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The real monsters are the humans who created them…
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Godzilla film 18/35 (as of 2026) Seikima-II and Godzilla in the same movie. If you know what both of things are, you know this is going to rule. I’ve been watching the Godzilla universe as sequentially as I can, and there is a WILD shift in tone and aesthetic away from the previous movies happening in this one. For the better. The Hensei era is in full swing right out of the gate.
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Biollante is probably one of the most creative ideas for a kaiju in the heisei era
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7/10 Biollante needs to be in the Monsterverse.
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Getting to share this with Hannah might be top five memories of the year so far. Hell yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.
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Biollante sempre sera top kaijus no meu coração
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The introduction to Biollante feels very Resident Evil. Two competing factions in a corporate espionage battle break into a genetic research lab to steal some secret experimental bacteria, only to mess everything up in a gunfight and accidentally unleash an unkillable mutant plant monster. Also gave me shades of Friday the 13th 7 with the whole “and there’s a psychic girl here for some reason” thing going on. Really just feels a bit too convoluted and messy for its own…
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I’m very glad that these are actual movies now, but this one is all over the place. Biollante is a cool concept, but they don’t do enough with her, and the movie has a real problem with knowing when it’s over. 6/10
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they made a movie about the happy meal toys
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this film had me with mixed emotions. i couldn’t tell if i enjoyed the plot or was annoyed by it. by the end of the film i was spectacularly surprised by how crazy the final battle was. the cinematography was insane for how they went about showing off the kaiju fight
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Biollante is such an eerie presence, standing perfectly still in the middle of a lake, resembling a crucified pumpkinhead.
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ohne SSS9 wären’s nur 1,5 Sterne
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Gotta love a classic clunky monster costume monster movie
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Pobre Godzilla solo quería ir por un Sushi a Tokyo y no lo dejan pasar 😢😢
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Espetacular
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“if we continue doing the same thing we can’t call it a new era” bars being dropped in a movie where godzilla fights a giant mutant rose. soundtrack goes v hard i love the godzilla theme so much,,, reminded me of shin godzilla since i saw that one first but think this one’s better at balancing the silly fun godzilla action with the bureaucracy bs.
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Idk why i gave this a four on my recent watch through. This movie is so excellent. The over the top whimsy of the half danny elfman half miami vice score. The colors. The camera work. Give me more of this!!!
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i love it whenever you watch one of these japanese godzilla movies and some random character speaks English Like That
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This one’s far more cinematic than the previous. I do wish this had more emphasis on Godzilla, as this movie doesn’t really need him to work. Love Biollante. Don’t have much to say about this one, still slower than I’d like it to be.
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I haven’t dipped my toes much into the giant pool that TOHO uses to film the water battles of Godzilla of Godzilla. 🙂↕️ There was the time i “watched” Final Wars (skipped through the people talking to get to the fights) and I’ve seen a few of the American takes on the character (didn’t really like them that much) All that to say, this was fun. The human plot was silly. I love a damn puppet though. The Biollante is…
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My first Godzilla movie! Absolutely AWESOME creature feature. So much fun to be introduced to this iconic character with an 80s movie that has him stomping around and blasting a big flower alligator.
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THIS MOVIE HAS EVERYTHING -Tight high waisted jeans and cable knit sweaters -sick ass plant monster that’s the ghost of your dead daughter confirmed? -cutie snarl face Godzilla with thick thighs -shots of architecture -lethal face cards -fingerless gloves -perhaps the greatest ‘BUM BUM BUM BUM’ theme and ofc a radioactive lizard just straight stompin
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What I wouldn’t give to stand beside the real life Biollante suit. Character design so good it broke the scale.
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really really solid entry in the godzilla franchise!! i didn’t expect it to be as good as it was going in. was especially impressed by how good it looked- the 80s stretch of godzilla films looked incredible, even the cornier ones. i do wish biollante had a larger presence in the film, but even so, i enjoyed this!
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Ridiculous usage of foreigners speaking poor English (almost unintelligible) – just have them speak their native language and subtitle it! First introduction of Miki & psychic abilities – works well in this film given the silly setup of the scientist imbuing the “soul” of his daughter into Biollante and needing to have someone there (Miki) to explain what it’s thinking… also she is able to sense Godzilla’s awakening within the volcano. Introduction of “G cells” and bioweapon development as a means…
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Flesh should not be doing that. Great movie. Faith and fear get tangled together in a really effective way. Very close to a favorite.
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- Synopsis
- After the previous Godzilla attack, a miniature arms race ensues to collect his cells. Concerned over Godzilla's possible return, the Japanese government uses the cells to create a new bio-weapon, ANEB (Anti-Nuclear Energy Bacteria). They seeks the aid of geneticist Genshiro Shiragami, who's experiments result in a new mutation.
- Director
- Kazuki Ōmori
- Writer
- Kazuki Ōmori
- Studio
- Toho Pictures
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese, English
- Year
- 1989
- Runtime
- 105 mins
- Japan16 Dec 1989
- Germany01 Feb 1991
- USA17 Dec 1989
- USA25 Nov 1992
- Sweden01 Apr 2005
- USA18 Mar 2025
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