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Son of Godzilla

Kamacuras Showa

Kamacuras in Son of Godzilla




All Monsters Attack

All Monsters Attack - Kamacuras Number 3 presumably chases Ichiro

Kamacuras in All Monsters Attack


Godzilla vs. Gigan


Godzilla Island



Millennium Series

Godzilla: Final Wars - Impaled Kamacuras

Kamacuras in Godzilla: Final Wars






Video games

Godzilla (2014 video game)

The original Kamacuras first appeared in the film "Son of Godzilla" (1967) and was a type of large Tenodera aridifolia praying mantis indigenous to Solgell Island. A group of the mantises turned into monsters due to a failed weather-control experiment. They are huge, carnivorous insects that possess the intelligence to act collectively when engaging in predatory activity or combat with an enemy.

The Kamacuras in "Godzilla: Final Wars" (2004) was controlled by the Xiliens and attacked Paris. It fought with the Earth Defense Force (EDF)'s aerial battleship Eclair and forced it down. When it engaged Godzilla on the coast of Manazuru, however, the overwhelming difference in strength between the two creatures made it easy for Godzilla to overpower it, throwing it to the ground and frying it with his atomic breath.

The original Kamacuras was operated with piano wire. Three models—small, medium, and large—were often used in scenes together in order to emphasize perspective.

— Kamacuras Kaiju Guide bio

Godzilla: Kaiju Collection


Godzilla: Rulers of Earth


After a brief skirmish, Kamacuras flies away and is chased by Mothra. Kamacuras at one point, was captured and copied by the Trilopods. It was held in the massive hive, along with many other monsters, but was freed by King Caesar. The mantis along with the other Earth monsters broke out of the hive into Los Angeles and joined the vastly outnumbered Godzilla in the battle against the Trilopods.

After being freed, Kamacuras strangely disappeared and was not seen taking part in the battle against the Trilopods and Magita, nor was it seen along with the other Earth monsters after the battle.

Godzilla: Cataclysm


In other languages

  • Chinese: 卡马奇拉斯 (Kǎmǎqílāsī)


  • A vaguely humanoid race of mantis creatures who heavily resemble the Kamacuras appear in the 1998 novel Godzilla at World's End, serving as guards and soldiers to the Ancient Ones and their mutated human agent Zoe Kemmering. Because of the similarities between these smaller insects and the much larger Kamacuras, these beings are referred to as 'Kamakites' by the book's protagonists.
  • Kamacuras is the second bug Kaiju to fight Godzilla.

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  2. Toho Special Effects All Monster Encyclopedia. Godzilla: Final Wars; Page 117.
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