 This, the 15th film, was the last film of the original Godzilla film  series. _Gojira (1984)_ (qv), filmed nine years later, was the first  of a new series of films (called the "Versus Series" in Japan, or,  alternatively, the "Heisei Series"), which returned Godzilla to his  destructive original roots (Toho was apparently ashamed of their  "hero" Godzilla).