Godzilla is one of the deadliest monsters in the kaiju world. Debuting in 1954 with Ichiro Honda's Godzilla, the Titan has been featured in multiple films. The prehistoric character has since ...

Kong.??? (Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures/TNS) Godzilla turns 70 on Sunday. On Nov. 3, 1954, director Ishiro Honda unleashed a monster on the world. Godzilla, the King of the Monsters ...

That means going all the way back to the original 1954 classic directed by Ishirō Honda, simply titled Gojira (and released in a heavily edited form in America as Godzilla: King of the Monsters!

Mankind first witnessed Godzilla's rise from the ocean depths in 1954 with the release of Ishiro Honda's Gojira. The first draft of Godzilla was inspired by the American sci-fi monster flick The ...

Back in 1954, just nine years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japanese filmmaker Ishirō Honda and special ... a “kaiju” named Godzilla. The monster was a metaphor for ...

Honda’s film directly calls up these events. His Godzilla is a prehistoric beast, a dinosaur awoken from a subterranean chasm by underwater hydrogen-bomb testing. The monster acts with the ...

It’s a pattern that also occurs in the original run of Japanese Godzilla films. Yes, Ishiro Honda’s 1954 original is a reflection of nuclear anxiety made in the shadow of the bombings of ...