JASDF hot on its tail. After one of its wings is injured, Rodan flies to Fukuoka, where the sonic waves and windstorms from its wings lay waste to the city. Suddenly, the JSDF reports that a second Rodan has been spotted heading towards the city. After leveling the city and leaving the remaining buildings in flames, the two Rodans fly to Mount Aso. The JSDF formulate a plan to have the military fire at the base of Mount Aso, burying the Rodans alive. Shigeru retreats with Kiyo to safety, and the military begins its attack, triggering a volcanic eruption. Mount Aso spews smoke and lava into the sky. The first Rodan's wing is damaged by the eruption; it falls towards a lava flow, where it begins to burn alive. Unwilling to live without its mate, the second Rodan dives into the eruption to join its mate in death. Cast Kenji Sahara as Shigeru Kawamura, Mining Engineer Yumi Shirakawa as Kiyo, Goro's Sister Akihiko Hirata as Kyoichiro Kashiwagi, Doctor of Paleontology Akio Kobori as Nishimura, Police Detective Yasuko Nakata as Honeymooning Wife Minosuke Yamada as Oseki, Mining Chief Yoshifumi Tajima as Izeki, reporter of Seibu Nippou Kiyoharu Onaka as Honeymooning Husband, Sunagawa's friend Haruo Nakajima as Rodan Yasuhisa Tsutsumi as Imamura, F-86F Pilot Ichirô Chiba as Chief of Police Mike Daneen as U.S. Army Teletype Operator, Okinawa Tazue Ichimanji as Haru, Kiyo's neighbor Saburo Iketani as Radio News Anchor Saburô Kadowaki as Lab Technician, Seismic Research Institute Tateo Kawasaki as Tsune, Miner Kanta Kisaragi as Wasteman Production Writing Veteran writer Ken Kuronuma, who wrote the original story for this film, was inspired by an incident in Kentucky in 1948, when Captain Thomas F. Mantell, a pilot for the Kentucky Air National Guard, died in a crash while allegedly pursuing a UFO. Filming While shooting the scene in which Rodan flies over the Saikai Bridge (connecting Saikai City and Sasebo City in Kyushu), the pulley from which Haruo Nakajima was suspended broke. He fell from a height of twenty-five feet, but the wings and the water, which was about one and a half feet deep, absorbed much of the impact. English dubbing The main narration provided by the character Shigeru was dubbed over by actor Keye Luke, with additional voices provided by George Takei (who went on to perform similar voice work for another Kaiju film, the 1959 release Gigantis, the Fire