Shouldn't Godzilla 1985 have a seperate IMDb entry?
Gojira and Godzilla, King of the Monsters! have separate pages.
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Maybe not enough was altered or added to consider a seperate page?
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My guess is it's because the Japanese version hasn't been distributed to US shores, thus, not as many people have seen it yet to justify another entry.
Don't think that's what it was. As long as it exists, doesn't IMDb give it an entry?
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Personally I think the issue is so nebulous that imdb doesnt even want to start to touch it.
You're starting to walk a very slippery slope there because there have been quite a lot of films with several versions with added scenes shot specifically for certain markets and with/without the knowledge of the original filmmakers. I think it matters how U.S.-centric the imdb wants to be vs. how true to the film's original productions / home country release it wants to be.
For instance, THE SUBMERSION OF JAPAN was changed around and released in the US as TIDAL WAVE with a lot of new scenes with American actor Lorne Green - I dont think that is a separate imdb entry... but IMDB places more relevance on the original Japanese version via title, but the US version via cast list (?).
KING KONG VS. GODZILLA has a bunch of different actors and an entirely different crew list in the US and Japan. It has one IMDB entry. However, only one was released in the US. IMDB seems to favor the Japanese crediting over the bizarre US one which credits Peter Zinner as editor, etc.
At the same time, Roger Corman would often lift effects and whole sections of movies for his productions, like VOYAGE TO A PREHISTORIC PLANET was essentially the Russian movie PLANETA BUR cut and redubbed with a couple new added scenes with Wendell Corey. Imdb has them listed as different movies, but then again Corman practically just re-released another movie, only altering it slightly to make it more marketable.
Big international coproductions like BATTLE OF NERETVA or THE GREATEST BATTLE have different casts and crews in different markets. For instance NERETVA is edited differently and has an entirely different score in Yugoslavia as opposed to most of the rest of the world... so who gets the credit for composer? There's scenes specific to both versions so should they be different films? I still consider that the same film.
I guess there's no way to stay completely consistent. It looks kinda stupid in my opinion to have multiple entries for the same movie and I'd rather they just recombined GODZILLA KING OF THE MONSTERS with GOJIRA so it doesn't look like Inoshiro Honda directed two of the same movie.
Maybe ideally the best thing to do would be to institute a system much like the one used for [archive footage] or [self] credits and have them different, as in [original version] on filmographies on an entirely separate list? I don't know.
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