1975

Timeline

Godzilla fights Mechagodzilla and Titanosaurus (Terror of Mechagodzilla)

1974 ← 1975 → 1976

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In the real world

• A.S. Barnes & Co. publishes The Making of King Kong.
• Adventure King publishes a manga adaptation of Terror of Mechagodzilla.
• A.S. Barnes & Co. publishes The Making of King Kong.
• King Kong vs. Godzilla is released in Egypt.
• Tomoyuki Tanaka becomes president of Toho Pictures.
• Yoshishige Shimatani, future Chairman of Toho, joins the company.
• Rodan is re-released in Thailand.

January

• 1 January: Submersion of Japan is released to Brazilian theaters.

February

• 7 February: Novelist Shigeru Kayama, who wrote the original story for Godzilla (1954), dies at 70.

March

• 15 March: Toho releases Terror of Mechagodzilla in Japanese theaters as the headliner of the Spring 1975 Toho Champion Festival. It will be the final entry in the Godzilla series' Showa era, as well as the last Godzilla film for nine years.
• 28 March: The final episode of Ultraman Leo airs, and Tsuburaya Productions takes a four-year hiatus from live-action Ultraman shows in favor of other live-action and animated projects.
• 30 March: The final episode of Nippon Chinbotsu: Television Series airs on TBS.

April

• 5 April: Himitsu Sentai Gorenger, the first series in Toei's prolific Super Sentai franchise, airs its first episode.
• 6 April: Makoto Ito is born in Tokyo, Japan.
• 25 April: The final episode of Go! Kotaro Ushiwaka airs.
• 30 April: The final episode of Nippon Chinbotsu: Television Series airs.
• Monthly Shonen Champion publishes a manga adaptation of Terror of Mechagodzilla.
• Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster is released in the United Kingdom by Eton Films.

May

• New World Pictures releases a recut version of Submersion of Japan, Tidal Wave, to U.S. theaters.
• 28 May: Submersion of Japan is released to French theaters.
• 30 May: Masahiro Kakefuda submits his first draft of The Invisible Man vs. The Human Torch to Toho.

June

• 1 June: Godzilla (2014) director Gareth Edwards is born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England.

August

• 1 August: Submersion of Japan is released to Canadian theaters.

September

• 20 September: Actor Ikio Sawamura dies at 70.

October

• 6 October: Submersion of Japan is released to Swedish theaters.
• 24 October: Masahiro Kakefuda and Jun Fukuda submit a second draft of The Invisible Man vs. The Human Torch to Toho. The film will ultimately go unproduced.

December

• 23 December: Submersion of Japan is released to Spanish theaters.

In fiction

• Eight kaiju, including Godzilla, converge on Ghana, lured by a Psionic Transmitter operated by Dr. Deverich as a proof of concept to a televised audience of potential bidders. Anti-Megalosaurus Force members track down Deverich but fail to capture him, and Colonel Schooler is killed when the kaiju destroy the broadcasting station. (Godzilla: The Half-Century War #3)
• Black Hole, Inc. and Third Planet, Inc. produce components for Robogodzilla. (Godzilla Singular Point)
• The events of Kong: Skull Island - Isle of the Damned take place.

References

This is a list of references for 1975. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: ^[1]

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