- HD 1080
- Runtime: 101m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: ja
- Country: Japan
- Director: Ishirō Honda
- Stars: Frankie Sakai, Hiroshi Koizumi, Kyōko Kagawa, Jerry Itō, Ken Uehara
- keywords: journalist, island, monster, ambassador, based on novel or book, cigarette, fairy, giant monster, dam, tokyo, japan, guardian, construction, moth, metamorphosis, miniature people, kaiju, surrender, cocoon, h bomb, airfield, editor, man eating plant, monster movie, tokyo tower, mosura, mothra, tokusatsu
- Production_studio: TOHO, Far East Laboratory
- Slogan: A gruesome marvel!
- providers: FlixFling
- The Mothra is featured in the top rankings of 1961
- #2 in Top Adventure Movies of 1961
- #2 in Top Fantasy Movies of 1961
Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that discovers a surviving native population along with the Shobijin, tiny twin fairy priestesses of the island's mythical deity called Mothra. After the fairies are kidnapped by an exploitative businessman named Clark Nelson, Mothra sets out to rescue them.
