Once Godzilla gets angry, we are helpless.
Just as RKO didn't waste any time in producing a sequel to King Kong when it became a hit, Toho had its follow-up to Godzilla, 1955's Godzilla Raids Again, ready to go within a matter of months. Subbing for Ishiro Honda is director Motoyoshi Oda, and instead of stomping Tokyo a second time, the big guy does a number on Osaka, but by and large the film repeats the formula of its predecessor. Another Godzilla is found on a remote island, makes its way to the mainland, and causes a lot of property damage which the military is powerless to prevent. This time, however, he has another monster -- Anguirus -- to contend with, but the usurper is vanquished well before the picture's climax, in which Godzilla is buried in the ice that he will be found in at the start of King Kong vs. Godzilla seven years later.
As can be expected, the human story is rather perfunctory. The romantic leads are Tsukioka (Hiroshi Koizumi), a pilot for a fishery, and Hidemi (Setsuko Wakayama), his fiancée and the boss's daughter. Tsukioka's best buddy is fellow pilot Kobayashi (Minoru Chiaki), who wants to get married so bad he can taste it, which is why it's a given the moment it's revealed that he's found himself a sweetie that he's going to bite it. And returning (very briefly) is Takashi Shimura, who shows a couple minutes of clips from the first film and reminds people that, without the Oxygen Destroyer, they're pretty much up the creek. Still, there's time enough for one song (the first for the series) before Godzilla makes landfall, as well as a subplot about escaped criminals that gets dropped in seemingly for no reason. Wouldn't be the last time that would happen.
Among Godzilla fans, one of the least popular films in the series is 1969's All Monsters Attack, released as Godzilla's Revenge here in the States. This is because it's centered on Ichirô (Tomonori Yazaki), a latchkey kid who travels to Monster Island in his dreams and befriends Godzilla's son Minilla, who like him has to learn not to run away from a fight. On Monster Island, the monster-obsessed Ichirô is readily able to identify the giant fauna that Godzilla battles in clips taken from other films. He also watches as Minilla takes on a bully (named Gabara after the kid who bullies him), storing away Minilla's fighting techniques for later use. These come in handy when Ichirô is kidnapped by a pair of bank robbers (Sachio Sakai and Kazuo Suzuki), although it has to be said that they're such bumblers it's a miracle they made off with 50 million yen in the first place. Ichirô also remembers the lessons he learned on Monster Island when he faces off against his own Gabara, which director Ishiro Honda clumsily illustrates by cutting in shots of Minilla flailing about. As for what any of this has to do with Godzilla taking revenge on anybody (or anything), your guess is as good as mine.