From his first appearance in Ishiro Honda’s 1954 film Gojira, Godzilla has since spawned one of the most commercially successful and thriving monster movie franchises in the world, with his ...

In a 1990 Directors Guild of Japan interview with Honda Ishiro—conducted by Banno Yoshimitsu, director of 1971's Godzilla vs. Hedorah—the original Godzilla director, who died in 1993 ...

The original Godzilla, featured in Ishiro Honda's 1954 film 'Gojira,' was a metaphor for the terrors of nuclear destruction in a post-Hiroshima world. Legendary’s Godzilla is the most egregious ...

But the name of its director, Ishiro Honda, was for a long time only mentioned by foreign critics and fans in passing, if at all. Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa ...

Directed by Ishiro Honda, the kaiju classic was made as a response to the tragedy of the atomic bomb that Japan faced in World War II scarcely a decade earlier. The wounds were still fresh for the ...

Godzilla is one of the biggest names in entertainment, with over 70 years of history since Ishiro Honda's 1954 film. Over the years, there have been numerous interpretations of the legendary beast ...

He was joined in his efforts by film director Ishiro Honda, special effects expert Eiji Tsuburaya and composer Akira Ifukube. A 1940 graduate of Kansai University, Tanaka joined Toho Studios and ...