Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956)
Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956)
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Raymond Burr
Steve Martin
Akira Takarada
Ogata
Momoko Kôchi
Emiko Yamane
Akihiko Hirata
Dr. Serizawa
Takashi Shimura
Dr. Yamane
Frank Iwanaga
Security Officer
James Hong
Ogata / Serizawa (voice) (uncredited)
Sachio Sakai
Hagiwara
Fuyuki Murakami
Dr. Tabata
Ren Yamamoto
Seiji
Toyoaki Suzuki
Shinkichi
Tadashi Okabe
Dr. Tabata's Assistant
Toranosuke Ogawa
President of Company
Mikel Conrad
George Lawrence (uncredited)
Paul Frees
Unidentified Character (voice) (uncredited)
Hiroshi Hayashi
Chairman of Diet Committee (uncredited)
Ren Imaizumi
Radio Operator (uncredited)
Kokuten Kōdō
Old Man on Hill on Oto Island (uncredited)
Takeo Oikawa
Chief of Emergency Headquarters (uncredited)
Tsuruko Mano
The Boy's Mother (uncredited)
Kenji Sahara
Man on Boat (uncredited)
Kin Sugai
Ozawa-san (uncredited)
Lee Miller
Man in Line at Airport (uncredited)
Haruo Nakajima
Godzilla (uncredited)
Ryosaku Takasugi
Godzilla (uncredited)
Katsumi Tezuka
Godzilla (uncredited)
Sammee Tong
Dr. Yamane (voice) (uncredited)
Ishirō Honda
Screenplay / Director
Takeo Murata
Screenplay
Al C. Ward
Screenplay
Masao Tamai
Director of Photography
Satoru Chûko
Production Design / Art Direction
Hisashi Shimonaga
Sound
Arthur B. Smith
Sound
Kuichirô Kishida
Special Effects / Visual Effects
Hiroshi Mukoyama
Special Effects / Visual Effects
Eiji Tsuburaya
Special Effects / Visual Effects / Story
Akira Watanabe
Special Effects / Visual Effects
Guy Roe
Director of Photography
Akira Ifukube
Music
Media.
Details.
Release DateApril 27, 1956
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 21m
Content RatingNR
Budget$25,000
Box Office$2,000,000
Genres
Wiki.
Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (Japanese: 怪獣王ゴジラ, Hepburn: Kaijū Ō Gojira) is a 1956 kaiju film directed by Terry O. Morse and Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. It is a heavily re-edited American localization, or "Americanization", of the 1954 Japanese film Godzilla. The film was a Japanese-American co-production, with the original footage produced by Toho Co., Ltd., and the new footage produced by Jewell Enterprises. The film stars Raymond Burr, Takashi Shimura, Momoko Kōchi, Akira Takarada, and Akihiko Hirata, with Haruo Nakajima and Katsumi Tezuka as Godzilla. In the film, an American reporter covers a giant reptilian monster's attack on Japan.
In 1955, Edmund Goldman acquired the 1954 film from Toho and enlisted the aid of Paul Schreibman, Harold Ross, Richard Kay, and Joseph E. Levine to produce a revised version for American audiences. This version dubbed most of the Japanese dialogue into English, and altered and removed key plot points and themes. New footage was produced with Burr interacting with body doubles and Japanese-American actors in an attempt to make it seem like Burr was part of the original Japanese production.
Godzilla, King of the Monsters! was theatrically released in the United States on April 27, 1956, and was followed by an international release. The film was responsible for introducing Godzilla to a worldwide audience, as the 1954 film remained unavailable officially outside of Japan until 2004.