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| One of the longest-running series in film history began with Ishiro Honda's grim, black-and-white
allegory for the devastation wrought on Japan by the atomic bomb. As his visual
metaphor, Honda uses a 400-foot tall mutant dinosaur called Gojira, awakened
from the depths of the sea as a rampaging nuclear nightmare, complete with
glowing dorsal fins and fiery, radioactive breath. Crushing ships, villages, and
buildings in his wake, Gojira marches toward Tokyo, bringing all of the
country's worst nightmares back until an evil more terrible bomb -- capable of
sucking all the oxygen from the sea -- returns the monster to its watery grave.
The original film is chilling, despite some rather unconvincing man-in-a-suit
special effects, and brimming with explicitly-stated anti-American sentiment.
All of that was removed for the U.S. release directed by Terry Morse. It was replaced with bad
dubbing and tedious added footage starring Raymond Burr. The resulting edit was just
another monster movie, but was still popular enough to assure future Toho
Studios monster films a wide American release. Gojira No Gyakushu (1955) was next in the
series. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide | |
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| One of the longest-running series in film history began with "Ishiro Honda"'s... Full Synopsis Filmed in 1954 as "Gojira", this grandaddy of all Japanese giant-reptile epics... Full Synopsis This preposterous battle between the huge ape King Kong and the fire-breathing... Full Synopsis A true "monster rally," this Japanese special-effects smorgasbord stars no fewer... Full Synopsis "Ishiro Honda" directed this fourth Godzilla film (the second for Mothra), which... Full Synopsis Toho's bid to merge the Godzilla series with their popular alien-invasion films... Full Synopsis The seventh film in Toho's Godzilla series (and the first without the direction... Full Synopsis The Japanese gargantuan reptile fathers a son who is a chip off the old... Full Synopsis This colorful, no-holds-barred clash of the titans -- directed by "Inoshiro... Full Synopsis The most unashamedly childish entry in the Godzilla franchise is basically a... Full Synopsis Beyond a doubt the weirdest chapter in Toho's Godzilla saga, this eco-conscious... Full Synopsis One of the cheapest entries in Toho's Godzilla franchise, this alternately noisy... Full Synopsis Japan's Toho Studios were clearly slumming for this crudely fashioned... Full Synopsis This time, the overgrown-lizard hero is confronted by a mechanical doppelganger,... Full Synopsis A race of malevolent aliens bent on world domination unleash the ultimate weapon... Full Synopsis Nearly ten years after his last screen appearance (in 1975's "Terror of... Full Synopsis Four years after Toho's semi-successful re-launch of their "Godzilla" series... Full Synopsis The intricately plotted 18th Godzilla film involves time-travel to a remote... Full Synopsis Godzilla is reunited with one of his arch-enemies in this remake of the Japanese... Full Synopsis Everyone's favorite big lizard gets ready to rumble in this sci-fi monsterfest.... Full Synopsis Godzilla must once again fight to protect his island domain (gee, you'd think... Full Synopsis Everybody's favorite Tokyo-trashing mutant lizard strikes again. This go-around... Full Synopsis Dedicated to "Tomoyuki Tanaka" (1910-1997), who produced the 1954 original and... Full Synopsis Following "Roland Emmerich"'s controversial Americanization of the Japanese... Full Synopsis Director Masaaki Tezuka follows up his debut feature Godzilla vs. Megaguirus... Full Synopsis Tsukioka (Hiroshi Koizumi) and Kobayashi (Minoru Chiaki) fly scout planes for a... Full Synopsis New monsters and new weapons meet their match in an old adversary, Godzilla, in... Full Synopsis After sandblasting away years of camp and bad scripts from the Gamera franchise... Full Synopsis Fifty years after he first attacked Tokyo, Godzilla is back on the rampage in... Full Synopsis Giant monsters are rampaging in cities across the globe, and as the Earth... Full Synopsis | |
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