Godzilla vs. Mothra

Godzilla vs. Mothra (ゴジラvsモスラ, 1992) is a Toho sci-fi action film you can watch online on iFILM. Director Takao Okawara sets up a three-way collision: Battra — Mothra's destructive dark twin — surfaces to punish humanity for its treatment of the planet, a meteorite kicks Godzilla loose from an Arctic slumber, and suddenly no one knows whose side anyone is on.

Two tiny fairy guardians called the Cosmos summon Mothra to stop Battra before it reaches civilization. The plan might have worked. Then Godzilla showed up. What follows is a full-scale kaiju showdown over Japan's coastline, with the outcome hinging on an alliance nobody expected.

More nakedly environmental than most entries in the Heisei Godzilla cycle, the film was a massive hit in Japan on release. It plays as straightforward giant-monster spectacle on the surface, but the planet-strikes-back premise gives it an edge that the purely destructive Godzilla films lack. Stream Godzilla vs. Mothra (1992) online on iFILM.