Editing Son of Godzilla (section)

===Filming===
Filming took place in [[Guam]]<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.guampedia.com/filmmaking/| title = » Filmmaking| date = 29 September 2009}}</ref> and areas in Japan including Gotemba, Lake Yamana, the Fuji Five Lakes region, and Oshima.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tohokingdom.com/movies/son_of_godzilla.htm|title=Son of Godzilla|publisher=TohoKingdom.com|access-date=October 22, 2020}}</ref>

Toho wanted to create a baby Godzilla to appeal to the "date crowd" (a genre of films that were very popular among young couples during this time period), with the idea that girls would like a "cute" baby monster.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=The Complete Godzilla Chronology 1954-2004|first1=August|last1=Ragone|first2=Bob|last2=Eggleton|magazine=[[Famous Monsters of Filmland]]|issue=274|publisher=Movieland Classics LLC.|date=2014|page=23}}</ref> For the idea behind [[Minilla]], Fukuda stated, "We wanted to take a new approach, so we gave Godzilla a child. We thought it would be a little strange if we gave Godzilla a daughter, so instead we gave him a son".{{sfn|Ryfle|1998|p=141}} Fukuda also wanted to portray the monsters almost as people<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Twenty-five Years with Godzilla|first=Ed|last=Godziszewski|magazine=[[Fangoria]]|issue=1|publisher=O'Quinn Studios Inc|date=1979|page=38}}</ref> in regards to the father-son relationship between Godzilla and Minilla, as Fukuda stated "We focused on the relationship between Godzilla and his son throughout the course of ''Son of Godzilla''.{{sfn|Ryfle|1998|p=141}}

At the time, Sekizawa was already tired of writing the series and likely complained that he had run out of ideas for further monster movies, and director Jun Fukuda heartily agreed. Producer Tomoyuki Tanaka then proposed the idea of introducing a son to Godzilla.

The budget for the film was 260,000,000 yen. When Son of Godzilla was released on December 16, 1967 in Japan, it sold 2,480,000 tickets. When the film was re-issued on August 1, 1973, it received 610,000 attendees, adding up to a rough attendance total of 3,090,000.