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Gojira

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Gojira
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1hr 38min
Genre:
Sci-Fi
Release:
1954
Director:
Ishiro Honda
Distributor:
Classic Media
Starring:
Akihiko Hirata, Momoko Kochi, Kokuten Kodo  ...more
Synopsis: 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 ... Full Synopsis
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Mark Deming, AMG Review
While you might have a hard time convincing most people, Inoshiro Honda's Gojira -- the film whose success launched the long-running Godzilla series and helped to make Japanese monster movies one of the nation's best known exports -- is actually an intelligent and somber parable about the legacy and consequences of the atomic bomb, told from the perspective of a people who had witnessed its impact ... Full Review
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