 Destroy All Monsters brought Ishirô Honda (qv) back as director  and Akira Ifukube as the musical composer for the first time in  three years. The previous two Godzilla movies, Godzilla vs. the Sea  Monster, and Son of Godzilla, were directed by Jun Fukuda, while the  score was composed by Masaru Sato. During this time period, producer  Tomoyuki Tanaka wanted to see if another team was capable of  directing kaiju movies. The installment after Destroy All Monsters,  Godzillas Revenge, would be Hondas last time directing the series  until its last entry, Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975).