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Director:

Ishirô Honda

Writers:

Ishirô Honda (writer)
Shigeru Kayama (story)
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Release Date:

7 May 2004 (USA) more

Tagline:

The legend begins.... more

Plot:

American nuclear weapons testing results in the creation of a seemingly unstoppable, dinosaur-like beast. full summary | add synopsis

Awards:

1 win more

NewsDesk:
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User Comments:

The First and Definitely Best of the Series more (110 total)


Cast

  (in credits order)
Akira Takarada ... Hideto Ogata
Momoko Kôchi ... Emiko Yamane
Akihiko Hirata ... Daisuke Serizawa-hakase
Takashi Shimura ... Kyohei Yamane-hakase
Fuyuki Murakami ... Professor Tanabe
Sachio Sakai ... Newspaper Reporter Hagiwara
Toranosuke Ogawa ... Nankai Shipping Company Manager
Ren Yamamoto ... Masaji the Fisherman
Miki Hayashi ... Chairman of Diet Committee
Takeo Oikawa ... Chief of Emergency Headquarters
Seijiro Onda ... Parliamentarian Oyama
Tsuruko Mano ... Shinkichi's Mother
Toyoaki Suzuki ... Shinkichi (Masaji's Younger Brother)
Kokuten Kodo ... The Old Fisherman
Kin Sugai ... Ozawa-san
Tadashi Okabe ... Reporter Killed on Tower
Ren Imaizumi ... Radio Operator
Junpei Natsuki ... Power Substation Engineer
Katsumi Tezuka ... Gojira / Hagiwara's Editor
Haruo Nakajima ... Gojira / Power Station Worker
Yasuhisa Tsutsumi
Jiro Suzuki
Saburo Iketani ... News Reporter
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Shizuko Higashi ... Partygoer
Kiyoshi Kamata ... Partygoer's Escort
Kenji Sahara ... Young Lover on the sound
Keiji Sakakida ... Mayor Inada
Tamae Sengo ... Mother
Ryosaku Takasugi
Ishirô Honda ... Power Station Worker (The Hand that Throws the Switch) (uncredited)
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Directed by
Ishirô Honda 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Ishirô Honda  writer
Shigeru Kayama  story
Takeo Murata  writer

Produced by
Tomoyuki Tanaka .... producer
 
Original Music by
Akira Ifukube 
 
Cinematography by
Masao Tamai 
 
Film Editing by
Kazuji Taira  (as Yasunobu Taira)
 
Production Design by
Satoshi Chuko 
Takeo Kita 
 
Art Direction by
Satoshi Chuko 
Takeo Kita 
 
Production Management
Teruo Maki .... executive in charge of production
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Koji Kajita .... chief assistant director
Susumu Takebayashi .... second assistant director
 
Sound Department
Ichirô Minawa .... sound effects editor
Hisashi Shimonaga .... sound recordist
Nobuyuki Tanaka .... sound assistant
Norio Tone .... sound assistant
 
Special Effects by
Sadamasa Arikawa .... director of photography: special effects
Kuichiro Kishida .... special effects lighting
Yoichi Manoda .... assistant camera
Hiroshi Mukoyama .... matte work
Fumio Nakadai .... special effects wire work
Yasuaki Sakamoto .... production manager
Sokei Tomioka .... assistant camera
Teizo Toshimitsu .... monster builder
Eiji Tsuburaya .... special effects director
Hajime Tsuburaya .... assistant camera
Akira Watanabe .... art director
Taka Yuki .... opticals
Fuminori Ohashi .... special effects technical advisor (uncredited)
 
Stunts
Haruo Nakajima .... stunt choreographer
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Yuzuru Aizawa .... assistant camera
Choshiro Ishii .... lighting technician
Shinji Kojima .... lighting assistant
Shoshichi Kojima .... lighting assistant
 
Other crew
Sei Ikeno .... assistant: Akira Ifukube
Fumio Nakadai .... tail supervisor
Shôji Okawa .... tail supervisor
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:

Godzilla (International: English title) (USA)
Kaihatsu keikaku G (Japan) (working title)
Kaitei ni-man mairu kara kita daikaijû (Japan) (working title)
Godzilla (Poland) [pl]
Godzilla (France) [fr]
Godzilla (Italy) [it]
Godzilla (Hungary) [hu]
Godzilla - Der sensationellste Film der Gegenwart (West Germany) (video title) [de]
Godzilla - monstret från havet (Sweden) [sv]
Godzilla, to teras tou aionos (Greece) [el]
Japón bajo el terror del monstruo (Spain) [es]
O Monstro do Oceano Pacífico (Portugal) [pt]
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Runtime:

98 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

Certification:

Australia:PG | USA:Unrated | West Germany:12 (nf) | Sweden:15 | UK:PG (re-rating) (2005) | UK:X (original rating)

Filming Locations:

Toba, Mie, Japan more


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

There were three cables coming out of the back of the costume. Two were for the operation of the eyes, and one was for the operation of the mouth. Eizo Kaimai was responsible for the movement of the eyes and the mouth. Batteries were installed in the Godzilla costume that was made for the second Godzilla movie. They were for the operation of the eyes and the mouth. The batteries made the costume even heavier than the one that had been constructed for the first Godzilla film. more

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When the jets attack Gojira as he's walking out to sea after destroying Tokyo, the rockets they fire at the monster can be seen bouncing off the sky backdrop. more

Quotes:

[last lines]
Kyohei Yamane-hakase: I can't believe that Godzilla was the only surviving member of its species... But if we continue conducting nuclear tests... it's possible that another Godzilla might appear somewhere in the world again.
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Movie Connections:

Referenced in The Back Lot Murders (2002) (V) more


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7 out of 9 people found the following comment useful.
The First and Definitely Best of the Series, 17 January 1999
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Author: Dik Meyer (doc_muzik@geocities.com) from St. Clair, Pennsylvania

Gojira (not Godzilla, King of the Monsters, with Raymond Burr), stands as one of the best monster movies...and one of Japan's finest and most allegory pieces of cinema. The original version of the movie has a lot of anti-nuclear sentiment that the US editors dropped from the Raymond Burr version. A woman on a subway noting that is seemed like she survived Nagaski only to die from Godzilla is an offhand but telling comment on Japan's unique view of the use of nuclear weapons.

The story itself is makes a bit more sense than the patchwork used with Raymond Burr (though that version is also quite good for the genre that it helps perpetuate). The effects are (I think) still great...the grainy, documentary feel of the movie makes it seem a lot more real.

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