The Plot to "Godzilla vs. Biollante!"
This one is the direct sequel to "Godzilla 1985" and takes up where "1985" left off. Godzilla is imprisoned inside of Mount Mihara on Oshima island, unable to injure mankind.
A new alarm system is established:
Level 1 Meteorological, chemical, psyonic,geologic, or other changes effected by G.
Level 2 Physical action of G, whether it be voice or motion, is confirmed.
Level 3 The appearance of G
Level 4 The landing of G on the Japanese coastline is imminent.
A new Super X has also been built.
During Godzilla's 1985 attack on Tokyo, it left behind fragments of hide. After Godzilla was contained in Mt. Mihara, the Japanese Defense Forces were able to go into the ruins of the newly demolished Tokyo and recover the fragments of Godzilla's hide, which they dubbed "G-cells." An American company, Bio-Major, sends its own agents into the ruin of Tokyo to compete with the Japanese army for the recovery of Godzilla cells. Having successfully completed their mission, the BioMajor agents trade gunfire with the JSDF only to be killed by a Saradian secret agent and have their precious bounty stolen.
Once in Saradia, the G-cells are turned over to the care of Dr. Shirigami, a Japanese biologist living and working in Saradia, a small, obscure nation in the Middle East. BioMajor agents planted a bomb in order to retrieve the stolen cells, killing Shirigami's lovely daughter Erica in the process. Grieving for his only child, Shirigami does a strange experiment: He attempts to keep some part of Erica alive by marrying her cells with those of the common red rose. In a funk, he takes these half-human roses back with him to Japan. He spends the next five years in mourning over Erica's death.
It is then that the audience is introduced to Miki Saegusa, a psychic and a telepathic girl; little more than a kid in this movie. Miki tries unsuccessfully to detect some faint trace of intelligence in the roses.
Meanwhile, a scientist by the name of Kirishima is trying to come up with a way to poison Godzilla by tampering with his cells and inventing "Anti-Nuclear Energy Bacteria", a weapon designed to drain Godzilla of all nuclear chain reactions. He gets together with Shirigami for this purpose. He borrows the G-cells from Dr. Okochi, founder of the Okochi Foundation and the father of Asuka, his girlfriend. Together they work on developing the bacteria in Shirigami's lab, where Shirigami keeps the cells for a week.
The grief-stricken Shirigami witnesses the greenhouse with roses inside shatter during Mt. Mihara's eruption. He takes the stricken foliage inside to the lab, and overcoming his reluctance to work with the G-cells, makes the mistake of amalgamating (fusing) a Godzilla cell with an Erica-rose cell.
Meanwhile, the BioMajor agents hear of the bacteria and threaten to blow up Mt. Mihara and set Godzilla loose if Okochi doesn't hand over the bacteria. Goro Gondo, a colonel in the Japanese army. and Kirishima meet the remaining BioMajor agent in the parking lot of an abandoned building. The Saradian, wanting the bacteria too, shows up and begins shooting. He kills the BioMajor agent and steals the bacteria. The two Japanese men try frantically to disable the timer in the back of the truck, but too late. The charges at Mt. Mihara go off, setting the Big Guy free.
The rose grows to normal height...and keeps on growing. One night, when Biomajor agents and the Saradian break into Shirigami's lab to steal the secrets of the Anti-Nuclear Energy Bacteria, they encounter a huge tendril that kills one of them and scares the socks off of the other two intruders. Dr, Shirigami arrives at the lab the next morning to find a dead body being toted out on a stretcher and a huge hole torn in the wall. He also finds the remnants of a tendril sawed off by the Saradian's dagger.
Asuka and Miki burst in and frantically inform Shirigami that there is a monster standing in Lake Ashino. Kirishima, Shirigami, Asuka and Miki go to the lake to stare at the beast, a 90-meter rose with a big thick stem. Shirigami acknowledges his responsibility for having created it and names it Biollante. Miki probes Biollante's essence with her telepathic power and detects Erica Shirigami's consciousness. She also senses Godzilla slicing through the ocean's briny waters toward Japan; he wants to fight Biollante. Godzilla appears in Japan and makes a beeline toward Lake Ashino where Biollante sits. The two engage in battle; it's reptile against rose bush.
Godzilla gets the best of his opponent and Biollante gets a thorn with her rose (just had to!) Biollante retreats into the upper reaches of Earth's atmosphere just this side of space. Godzilla moves into Osaka and begins to lay waste to the city. Kirishima and Gondo go to the Saradian's office and beat him over the head. They find the bacteria just in time. They inject Godzilla with the bacteria; unfortunately, Colonel Gondo is killed in the process.
The JSDF wait in frustrated anticipation for Godzilla to die; but to their chagrin, he doesn't even get sick. He takes off toward the mountains in the northern regions. They decide to try to raise his body temperature so that the bacteria can multiply. They do this with artificially induced lightning and ground electrical pads. Godzilla is on the rampage and it's him against the army when Biollante makes her second appearance. She has changed. Instead of a giant rose, she looks a bit more like a cross between Godzilla and Audrey II (from Little Shop of Horrors.)
The two go head to ugly head in a monstrous battle. An exhausted Godzilla begins to feel the effects of the bacteria that are coursing through his bloodstream. He falls to the sandy beach, his reptilian head sticking in the water. During the battle, Godzilla inflicted several mortal wounds on his assailant. A dying Biollante disintegrates in flames, and Miki reaches out to Biollante with her telepathy. She sees the spirit of Erica leaving the monster's remains.
The Saradian shows up and drops Shirigami with a bullet through the heart. An angry Kirishima gives chase. The Saradian is killed when he stands on one of the electrical pads. Asuka catches up with Kirishima to offer him assistance when they are interrupted by a familiar roar. Godzilla revives from his fevered slumber; but instead of going inland to wreak more havoc, Godzilla swims out to sea.
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