Four Heisei Godzilla Titles Coming to The Criterion Channel in July

The Criterion Collection has announced that four Heisei era Godzilla movies will be coming to their Criterion Channel streaming service in July, joining the lineup of roughly two dozen tokusatsu films the service already carries.

These include THE RETURN OF GODZILLA (1984), GODZILLA VS. BIOLLANTE (1989), GODZILLA VS. KING GHIDORAH (1991), and GODZILLA VS. MOTHRA (1992), which have been out of print in physical format for several years, and hopefully we can expect a Blu-ray release of these films from Criterion sometime in the future.

It’s presumed THE RETURN OF GODZILLA’s U.S. cut, GODZILLA 1985, will not be offered. What English dubs, if any, will be included also remain to be seen.

Criterion details the announcement:

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 himself as a benevolent protector), while taking the series’s political commentary and vaunted special effects in bold new directions.

FEATURING: The Return of Godzilla (1984), Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989), Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991), Godzilla vs. Mothra (1992)

Source: The Criterion Collection.