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Godzilla

(1954)

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Overview

Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships explode and are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by paleontologist Professor Kyohei Yemani soon discover something more devastating than imagined in the form of a 50 meter tall monster whom the natives call Gojira. Now the monster begins a rampage that threatens to destroy not only Japan, but the rest of the world as well.

Featured Crew

Ishirō Honda

Author, Director
Takeo Murata

Screenplay

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Akira Takarada

Hideto Ogata
Momoko Kôchi

Emiko Yamane
Akihiko Hirata

Daisuke Serizawa-hakase
Takashi Shimura

Kyohei Yamane-hakase
Fuyuki Murakami

Professor Tanabe

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Featured Review

A review by John Chard

8.0

Written by John Chard on November 29, 2015

The big political atomic lizard is cheesed off!

After H bomb testing in the pacific, ships start to go missing and a remote island is apparently under attack from a prehistoric monster. Japanese scientists hasten to find out just what is going on, what they find is Gojira, and he is mightily hell bent on destruction...next stop Tokyo.

Gojira is such an influential film, it has spawned many sequels, remakes, copyists, and numerous homages, and of course there is two versions of this film for the viewer to choose from. The American version is a decent enough watch, it has integrated Raymond... read the rest.

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