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Between 1956 and 1961, Toho made a bevy of monster movies in an attempt to recapture the success they had with Godzilla in 1954. This culminated in Mothra, which became the most successful of those attempts. The kaiju became both a supporting character in the Godzilla series as well as the star of her own trilogy in the late 1990s. Mothra thus became the only other Toho monster besides Godzilla to star in her own sequels.  But the question remains, sixty-five years later, does the original film still hold up?

The strongest element of the original Mothra is definitely its imaginativeness. A female kaiju who goes through metamorphosis, tiny fairies that sing and speak in code, vampire plants, the Mothra symbol, atomic heat rays employed by Japanese self-defense forces, this film is loaded with cool concepts that stick in your mind long after you’ve seen the film. It’s no stretch of the imagination to say that Mothra probably has the most in-depth lore of any giant monster, something explored further in films like Godzilla and Mothra: Battle for Earth and Rebirth of Mothra.