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Moguera Movies

Mysterians, The

Japan, 1957
Mysterians, The
Starring Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Momoko Kochi.
Directed by Ishiro Honda.

Aliens from Mars set up a base in a secluded place in Japan and declare that they want women. The Japanese government doesn't take kindly to this, and a war of super-weapons is joined.

One of the alien weapons is a giant robot mole named Moguera. It appears early in the movie and is destroyed by conventional military tactics, making it practically unique in the Toho pantheon of monsters. At the film's climax a couple of Moguera robots are seen briefly.

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Godzilla vs. Spacegodzilla

Japan, 1994
Godzilla vs. Spacegodzilla
Starring Megumi Odaka, Jun Hashizume, Zenkichi Yoneyama.
Directed by Kensho Yamashita.

Godzilla fights his evil doppelganger from space. Spacegodzilla is a fairly spectacular design, and the filmmakers have given him lots of powers, but the monster action is so slackly edited boredom results. There's also a human subplot about gangsters who want to use Godzilla to blackmail the Japanese government.

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