Godzilla (1954 movie)
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Directed by | Ishirō Honda |
Produced by | Tomoyuki Tanaka |
Screenplay by | Ishirō Honda Takeo Murata |
Story by | Shigeru Kayama |
Starring | Akira Takarada Momoko Kōchi Akihiko Hirata Takashi Shimura |
Music by | Akira Ifukube |
Cinematography | Masao Tamai |
Edited by | Kazuji Taira |
Production company | |
Distributed by | RKO |
Release date | November 3, 1954 |
Running time | 96 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Budget | $1,500,000 |
Box office | $2,250,000 |
The opening scene of the Eiko Maru being obliterated by Godzilla's first attack and later scenes of survivors of other attacks being found with radiation burns, were inspired by the 1954 U.S. testing of a hydrogen bomb on Bikini Atoll.
It gained positive reviews from critics and holds a 94% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[1]
Cast
- Akira Takarada as Hideto Ogata
- Momoko Kōchi as Emiko Yamane
- Akihiko Hirata as Daisuke Serizawa
- Takashi Shimura as Dr. Kyohei Yamane
- Fuyuki Murakami as Dr. Tanabe
- Sachio Sakai as Hagiwara
- Ren Yamamoto as Masaji
- Toyoaki Suzuki as Shinkichi (Masaji's younger brother)
- Tsuruko Umano as Shinkichi's mother
- Tadashi Okabe as Assistant of Dr. Tanabe
- Jiro Mitsuaki as Employee of Nankai Salvage Company
- Ren Imaizumi as Radio Officer Nankai Salvage Company
- Kenji Sahara as Partygoer
- Sokichi Maki as Chief at Maritime Safety Agency
- Haruo Nakajima as Godzilla, the King of the Monsters who was mutated by the radiation of the H-Bomb & a reporter
- Katsumi Tezuka as Godzilla (as Nakajima's Stunt Double) & Editor Yamada
References
- ↑ "Gojira (1954)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2014-04-24.