The Thing

Members of a joint Japanese-Rolisican expedition to Infant Island, the site of significant H-Bomb testing by the Rolisican government, find that the heavily radiated island still holds life -- two beautiful young women, the Shôbijin, only a foot high and singing guardians of Mothra, a sacred egg. Nelson, one of the Rosilican members, returns to the island to kidnap the young Shôbijin and plans to exhibit them around the world. But his actions set in motion a terrifying chain of events, as the mammoth egg hatches a giant moth larva that immediately heads for Tokyo, driven by a primal instinct to save the Shôbijin at all costs. While a ragtag group (including two intrepid reporters and a linguist) try to convince Nelson to return the women, Mothra creeps closer and closer to an explosive showdown with the Japanese and Rosilican militaries.