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Gojira (Motion picture)

Godzilla / directed by Ishiro Honda; produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka; screenplay by Takeo Murata and Ishiro Honda.

[United States] : Image Entertainment 2012.

2 videodiscs (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

video file DVD

It's also a remarkably humane and melancholy drama made in Japan at a time when the country was still reeling from nuclear attack and H-bomb testing. Its rampaging radioactive beast, the poignant embodiment of an entire populations fears, became a beloved international icon of destruction, spawning more than twenty sequels and spinoffs. Here, we present the original, 1954 Japanese version, along with Godzilla: King of the Monsters!, the 1956 American reworking.

Criterion collection

Criterion collection.

Monsters -- Drama.

Godzilla (Fictitious character) -- Drama.

Monster films.

Honda, Ishirō, 1911-1993.

Takarada, Akira, 1934-2022

Burr, Raymond, 1917-1993.

Shimura, Takashi, 1905-1982.

Image Entertainment (Firm)

Originally released as a motion picture in 1954.

Special features: audio commentary for both movies by film historian David Kalat; new interviews with actors Akira Takarada and Haruo Nakajima and special effects technicians Yoshio Irie and Eizo Kaimai; interview with legendary Godzilla score composer Akira Ifukube; featurette detailing Godzilla's photographic effects, introduced by special effects director Koichi Kawakita and special effects photographer Motoyoshi Tomioka; New interview with Japanese-film critic Tadao Sato; The Unluckiest Dragon, an illustrated audio essay; Trailers for Godzilla and Godzilla, King of the Monsters; booklet featuring an essay by critic J. Hoberman.

Akira Takarada, Raymond Burr, Takashi Shimura.

DVD; Dolby digital.

Japanese dialogue; English subtitles.

CC2099DDVD

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