Four Heisei Era Films Coming to Criterion Channel this July

This July, four beloved Heisei era films will be making their way over to the Criterion Channel:

- The Return of Godzilla (1984)

- Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989)

- Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991)

- Godzilla vs. Mothra (1992)

Following a nine-year absence from the screen, the King of the Monsters roared back with a vengeance in 1984 with The Return of Godzilla, inaugurating a new era in the romping reptile’s mythology. The ferociously entertaining kaiju spectaculars of the 1980s and ’90s—which brought back familiar favorites like Mothra and King Ghidorah and introduced a new adversary in the genetically engineered mutant Biollante—reestablished Godzilla as a fearsome force (after previous Showa-era films that had recast Godzilla as a benevolent protector), while taking the series’ political commentary and vaunted special effects in bold new directions.