Godzilla will be stomping all over the big and ... In fact, the film almost depicted the actual Daigo Fukuryū Maru, but director Ishirō Honda told Cult Movies he decided this "would be too ...

Godzilla was a symbol of thermonuclear weapons as well as a victim, an intentional directorial decision by director Ishiro Honda, who explained, "I took the characteristics of an atomic bomb and ...