

Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
As an action film directed by Ishirô Honda and Terry O. Morse, this movie focuses on a 400-foot dinosaur-like beast, which is awoken from undersea hibernation off the Japanese coast by atomic-bomb testing, attacks Tokyo.


















23 December 1911, Fukuoka, Japan

22 February 1929, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA



7 March 1932, Tokyo, Japan

25 February 1915, North Korea

26 December 1927, Kyogo, South Korea


12 March 1905, Ikuno, Hyogo, Japan

13 February 1929, Tokyo, Japan

July 30, 1919 in Columbus, Ohio, USA




August 13, 2003
Americanized version of Gojira is still a kind of classic.
July 25, 2002
The one that started it all. And by all I mean "a series of progressively more atrocious sequels and one abysmal remake."
October 10, 2011
Compared to the "Japoteurs" propaganda that was barely a decade out, it's an astonishing leap forward.
October 15, 2004
It looked really good when I was in grade school. Now it's beyond retro.
February 03, 2012
It's hard not to chuckle at the fiftieth cutaway to an oddly passive Burr after watching a scene from the Honda original, but this cut shouldn't be dismissed either.
December 24, 2003
How could you not love the lizard?
September 14, 2010
Giant-monster drama is stiff, dated but still a classic.
August 08, 2002
Not as good as the original Japanese version but still a classic.
April 07, 2012
Granddaddy of all Japanese monster films.