Who's Involved:
Akira Takarada, Momoko Kochi, Akihiko Hirata, Takashi Shimura, Ishirô Honda, Fuyuki Murakami, Takeo Murata, Kokuten Kodo, Sachio Sakai, Toranosuke Ogawa, Takeo Oikawa, Miki Hayashi, Kin Sugai, Tadashi Okabe, Toyoaki Suzuki, Ren Yamamoto, Seijiro Onda
Release Date:
Friday, April 27, 1956 New York
Friday, April 18, 2014 New York
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Runtime: N/A
Language: English
Plot: What's the story about?
A 400-foot monster reptile with radioactive breath is revived, thanks to nuclear testing. It goes on a mad rampage, destroying Tokyo - how will they kill it?
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Key Facts
- Godzilla was originally released here in 1956 as Godzilla: King of the Monsters, an atrociously cut, dubbed and re-edited version that inserted American actor Raymond Burr into the action; only an hour was used of the original's 98 minute running time. Burr does not appear in the original, uncut version, which has an all-Japanese cast including Kurosawa regular Takashi Shimura, who the very same year appeared as leader of the Seven Samurai.
As directed by IshirĂ´ Honda, with special effects by the legendary Eiji Tsuburaya, Godzilla: The Japanese Original is much darker in tone than the dumbed-down U.S. release version, which entirely eliminated the original's underlying theme: in the Japanese version, the monster is clearly a metaphor for the nuclear menace and the film itself a cry for world peace and disarmament. The American version also cut out all of the original's astonishing Strangelove-like black humor. - A new restoration of Godzilla: The Japanese Original, the monster classic that has spawned six decades of sequels, imitations, and remakes, will debut April 12 at the fifth TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood, followed by a national release beginning at New York's Film Forum, April 18-24.
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- 2004 - December: The film was set to Completed status.
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Now Released; New York
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