Cast and crew
The Return of Godzilla (1984)
25 cast and 57 crew, as credited. Cast in billing order; crew by department.
Cast25
Keiju KobayashiPrime Minister Seiki Mitamura
Ken TanakaGoro Maki
Yasuko SawaguchiNaoko Okumura
Shin TakumaHiroshi Okumura
Yōsuke NatsukiProfessor Makoto Hayashida
Eitarō OzawaMinister of Finance Kanzaki
Taketoshi NaitoChief Cabinet Secretary Takegami
Nobuo KanekoHome Affairs Minister Isomura
Mizuho SuzukiForeign Minister Emori
Junkichi OrimotoDirector-General of the Defense Agency
Hiroshi KoizumiProfessor Minami
Kunio MuraiSecretary Henmi
Kei SatōChief Editor Gondo- Shigeo KatōCaptain of the Yahata Maru
- Walter NicholsRosenburg, Special Envoy for the President of the United States
- Alexander KilisChefsky, Special Envoy for the Soviet Union
- Takenori EmotoDesk Editor Kitagawa
- Koji IshizakaPower plant guard
- Tetsuya TakedaHomeless man
- Joe RaznackKramer, American Ambassador (uncredited)
- Joseph GraceZazimov, Soviet Ambassador (uncredited)
Kenpachirō SatsumaGodzilla- Akira ToriyamaMan fleeing from Godzilla (uncredited)
- Yuji HoriiMan fleeing from Godzilla (uncredited)
- Akira SakumaMan fleeing from Godzilla (uncredited)
Crew57
Directing
- Koji HashimotoDirector
- Takao OkawaraFirst Assistant Director
- Kunio MiyoshiFirst Assistant Director
- Kensho YamashitaAssistant Director
- Hitoshi HoshinoSecond Assistant Director
- Hiroko KajiyamaContinuity
Writing
- Tomoyuki TanakaStory
- Hideichi NagaharaScreenplay
Production
- Takahide MorichiProduction Manager
- Fumio TanakaAssociate Producer
- Norio HayashiProducer
- Tomoyuki TanakaExecutive Producer
- Tadao TanakaCasting
- Kiyomi KanazawaProducer
Camera
- Kazutami HaraDirector of Photography
- Takashi NakaoStill Photographer
- Yoshinori IshizukiStill Photographer
- Shunji YokotaGrip
Editing
- Yoshitami KuroiwaEditor
- Fusako TakahashiNegative Cutter
Sound and music
- Reijirō KorokuOriginal Music Composer
- Nobuyuki TanakaSound Recordist
- Noboru IkedaAssistant Sound Engineer
- Mikio MoriDolby Consultant
Art
- Akira SakuragiProduction Design
- Yasuyuki InoueProduction Design
- Akio TashiroSet Decoration
- Mutsumi ToyoshimaProduction Design
- Yoshiki KasaharaConstruction Coordinator
Costume and make-up
- Nobuyuki YasumaruProsthetics, Costume Design
- Kenji KawasakiCostume Design
- Fumiko UmezawaMakeup Artist
- Tomoki KobayashiCostume Design, Assistant Costume Designer
Visual effects
- Toshimitsu OnedaVFX Director of Photography
- Teruyoshi NakanoVisual Effects Director, Visual Effects
- Takeshi MiyanishiVisual Effects, Visual Effects Camera
- Takeaki TsukadaVisual Effects Camera, Visual Effects
- Yoshio IshiiVisual Effects, Visual Effects Camera
- Yoshikazu ManodaVisual Effects Camera, Visual Effects
- Masayuki IkedaVisual Effects Production Manager
- Kohhei MikamiVFX Lighting Artist
- Takeshi YamamotoVFX Director of Photography
- Yutaka TsuchiyaVisual Effects
Lighting
- Shinji KojimaLighting Technician
- Hideo InagakiElectrician
- Akira ObaLighting Technician
Crew
- Shinji HiguchiSpecial Effects
- Teruyoshi NakanoSpecial Effects
- Kiyotaka MatsumotoSpecial Effects
- Eiichi AsadaSpecial Effects
- Hideo AokiMilitary Consultant
- Mitsuo MiyakawaSpecial Effects
- Kohhei MikamiSpecial Effects
- Mamoru KumePyrotechnician
- Koji MatsumotoSpecial Effects
- Tadaaki WatanabePyrotechnician
- Soichiro TaharaThanks