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A
giant meteor hurtles through space toward the little blue planet that was
the third one from the star... As it hit the planet's atmosphere, the friction
caused the meteor's surface to get hotter and hotter until it began to
burn. Finally it crashed to the ground, with its deadly cargo safely nestled
inside....
The
meteor comes to Earth but it does not go unnoticed. A group of scientists
spots it and sends a climbing party to investigate. They set up camp adjacent
to the meteor to take recordings.
Meanwhile,
a princess from another country flees by way of aircraft to Japan, fearing
that certain seditionists are out to kill her. Unknown to her, a bomb ticks
the seconds by in the cargo bay. She has a locution that warns her to jump
from the plane and she listens. She jumps from the plane just in time before
it explodes. She falls into the ocean unharmed.
The
police presume the princess dead until a prophetess dressed in rags appears
and starts to warn the populace that Rodan is coming back. The officer
assigned to guard her, Shindo, is at home reading the paper when he recognizes
her as the princess. The princess-turned-prophet goes to the volcano and
warns the populace that Rodan is about to break out of the earth's crust.
Of course, no one listens until it happens.
She
then goes to the boat that is taking the twin fairies back to Infant Island
and warns the captain not to set sail. The annoyed captain puts her ashore
and sets sail anyway, only to have his ship blown to pieces by Godzilla
later in the movie.
Shindo's
sister Naoko takes the princess to a hotel where the thugs who are out
to get her are standing in the hall. Anyway, they try to kill her throughout
the film. The princess tries to tell everyone that she is of Martian descent
and that long ago, a space monster called Ghidrah ravaged the planet until
there was nothing left. She then warns that Ghidrah has come to Earth to
do the same thing it had done to Mars.
At
that moment, the meteor explodes and starts spewing energy. The energy
materializes into a giant, gold-colored three headed dragon with two tails.
Ghidrah heads for the nearest Japanese city and proceeds to rip it apart.
Godzilla
and Rodan are also in Japan fighting it out between them. When asked by
the government the fairies (who listened to the princess and skipped out
on the ill-fated sea voyage) called Mothra to help. Mothra swims to Japan
and tries to make peace between the warring kaiju. Godzilla and Rodan tell
Mothra to mind her own business, and then continue fighting.
Mothra
gives up and goes to fight Ghidrah by herself, which startles both Rodan
and Godzilla into paying attention. Mothra almost has her butt handed to
her when Godzilla and Rodan come to her defense.
Ghidrah
is a considerable foe, and it takes the three of them against their thrice-headed
enemy to proclaim victory for the earth. Ghidrah is sent packing. During
the course of the great battle, the thugs try to kill the princess one
last time. It comes down to a shooting match between Shindo and the lead
seditionist. Just as the princess' enemy is about to kill both of them
with a gun, he catches a huge boulder square in the chest and plunges to
his death. The princess returns to her home, and the fairies and Mothra
return to theirs with Godzilla and Rodan looking on. Everything is peaceful
once again....until the next time.
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