Godzilla

    Godzilla
    1954

    Synopsis

    Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Yemani soon discover something far 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.

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    Cast

    • Akira TakaradaHideto Ogata
    • Momoko KôchiEmiko Yamane
    • Akihiko HirataDaisuke Serizawa
    • Takashi ShimuraKyohei Yamane
    • Fuyuki MurakamiProfessor Tanabe
    • Sachio SakaiNewspaper Reporter Hagiwara
    • Ren YamamotoMasaji Yamada
    • Toyoaki SuzukiShinkichi Yamada
    • Toranosuke OgawaPresident of Company
    • Hiroshi HayashiChairman of Diet Committee

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Christian Science Monitor

      Not that Honda's original Godzilla is a message movie first and foremost. It's a horror flick, and an ingenious one at that, with visual effects so vivid that gimmicky spin-offs became an enduring staple of popular film.
    • 91

      Entertainment Weekly

      Godzilla is still the most awesome of tacky movie monsters.
    • 90

      L.A. Weekly

      Can now be appreciated not just as a minor classic of tragic destruction, but also as a somber exploration of conflicted postwar emotions.
    • 80

      Village Voice

      As crass as it is visionary, Godzilla belongs with--and might well trump--the art films "Hiroshima Mon Amour" and "Dr. Strangelove" as a daring attempt to fashion a terrible poetry from the mind-melting horror of atomic warfare.
    • 80

      Washington Post

      The images are crisp. The story is restored. And there's no sign of Raymond Burr.
    • 80

      Washington Post

      Its images of the destruction of the cities is far more powerful than in American films, where the cities are trashed for the pure pleasure of destruction, without any real sense of human loss.
    • 75

      New York Daily News

      The monster's mashing of Tokyo looks as Ed Wood-like as ever, but the film's humanity gives it depth.
    • 75

      San Francisco Chronicle

      A new restoration takes a flawed bit of monster camp and turns it back into a strong, serious-minded and occasionally moving science-fiction film.

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