Ishirō Honda's momentous 1954 monster film was born out of a national tragedy in Japan. It has a bleak message for humanity ...

The Godzilla timeline that ran for the longest was also the franchise’s first. Although the 1954 movie killed off Godzilla, it didn’t break continuity when it brought him back for 1955’s ...

On November 3, 1954, the king of the monsters rampaged ... Through all the detours of the Godzilla franchise, the first movie still has the greatest impact. Monster movies would not be the same ...

Yoro: What I remember about the first “Godzilla” that came out in 1954 is that it was such a no-nonsense movie. It’s a monster movie, and yet it is serious in tone, and there are no funny ...

On Nov. 3, 1954, the first Godzilla film was released in Japan. The monster flick, which many people saw as an allegory for the Atomic bomb, was a box office hit in the country, and would go on to ...

2023 ("Godzilla Day"), which was the anniversary of the first Godzilla film's November 3, 1954 release. The new film screened at The Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) as the closing film of ...

When Godzilla first reared up from the boiling ocean in 1954, it was the pitiless embodiment of nuclear devastation in a Japanese film that still stands, 70 years on, as the darkest and most ...

Akira Takarada, an actor who starred in the first “Godzilla” movie and later became a peace activist, died of pneumonia on March 14. He was 87. Born on the Korean Peninsula when it was under ...

The king of monsters debuted in a 1954 Japanese film ... Explained Tsutsui in a past Tulsa World interview: “I saw my first Godzilla movie when I was 7 or 8 years old, lying on the blue shag ...

the anniversary of the first movie to feature the character. Godzilla (1954) was a stark exercise in processing the trauma of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings, but its success inspired the ...