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Released
2004 · FILM

Godzilla: Final Wars

“Farewell, Godzilla.”

Directed by
Ryuhei Kitamura
Written by
Isao Kiriyama, Ryuhei Kitamura
Runtime
125 min
Language
JA
ActionAdventureFantasy

Synopsis

After successfully defeating Godzilla, humanity imprisons him in an icy tomb at the South Pole, restoring peace to the world. However, this peace is short-lived as various monsters emerge and begin devastating Earth's cities. As humanity struggles to cope with the onslaught, they are seemingly saved by a race of benevolent aliens called the Xiliens. Yet, not all is as it appears with these enigmatic visitors. To ensure their survival, humans must reluctantly bring back their most feared enemy, Godzilla.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Shuichi KakesuShot by Takumi FuruyaScored by Keith Emerson

Box Office

2004 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.6× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$12.0M

Budget$19.5M
Worldwide gross$12.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Godzilla: Final Warsde
  • Godzilla: Final Warsen
  • Godzilla : guerres finalesfr
  • Gojira - Final Warsit

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