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Director:
Ishirô Honda
Writers:
David Duncan (U.S. version)
Takeshi Kimura (writer)
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Release Date:
August 1957 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi more
Tagline:
Never a Horror Like It! more
Plot:
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User Comments:
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Cast

  (in credits order)
Kenji Sahara ... Shigeru Kawamura, colliery engineer (as Kenji Sawara)
Yumi Shirakawa ... Kiyo, Shigeru's lover
Akihiko Hirata ... Professor KYUichiro Kashiwagi (biology)
Akio Kobori ... Police Chief Nishimura
Yasuko Nakata ... Female Honeymooner
Minosuke Yamada ... Colliery Chief Osaki
Yoshifumi Tajima ... Izeki, reporter of Seibu Nippou
Kiyoharu Onaka ... Male Honeymooner, Sunagawa's friend (as Kiyoharu Ohnaka)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ichirô Chiba ... Chief of police station
Mike Daneen ... American Soldier Typing
Tazue Ichimanji ... Haru, Kiyo's neighbor
Saburo Iketani ... News Reader
Saburo Kadowaki ... Sunagawa's colleague
Tateo Kawasaki ... Tsunesan, miner
Kanta Kisaragi ... Suteyan, miner
Takuzô Kumagai ... Policeman Tashiro (as Jirô Kumagai)
Saeko Kuroiwa ... Nurse
Tsuruko Mano ... Osumi, Kiyo's neighbor
Mitsuo Matsumoto ... Professor Isokawa
Hideo Mihara ... Commander of JASDF
Kiyomi Mizunoya ... Otami, Yoshizo's wife
Junichirô Mukai ... Military officer
Toshiko Nakano ... Kiyo's neighbor
Rinsaku Ogata ... Goro, miner, Kiyo's older brother
Keiji Sakakida ... Tahei, miner
Yasuhiro Shigenobu ... Sabu, miner
Junnosuke Suda ... Coroner
Shigemi Sunagawa ... F-86F pilot
Jirô Suzukawa ... Yoshizo, miner
Masaaki Tachibana ... Policeman
Bontaro Taira ... Laborer
Kiyoshi Takagi ... Dr.Minakami (colliery)
Kamayuki Tsubono ... Policeman of the crime laboratory
Mitsuo Tsuda ... Staff officer Takeuchi
Hideo Unagami
Akira Yamada ... Radio operator on jeep
Paul Frees ... Police Chief Nishimura (uncredited) (voice: English version)
Art Gilmore ... Narrator (uncredited) (voice: English version)
Shôichi Hirose ... F-86F pilot (uncredited)
Ren Imaizumi ... Engineer Sunagawa (seismologist) (uncredited)
Keiichiro Katsumoto ... Employee of the coal mine (uncredited)
Keye Luke ... Shigeru (uncredited) (voice: English version)
Fuyuki Murakami ... Professor Minami (science) (uncredited)
Haruo Nakajima ... Radon (uncredited)
Ichirô Nakatani ... Senkichi, miner, killed by Meganuron (uncredited)
Tadashi Okabe ... Journalist (uncredited)
Yutaka Oka ... Kitahara, F-86F pilot (uncredited)

George Takei ... Professor Kashiwagi (uncredited) (voice: English version)
Katsumi Tezuka ... Hotel manager (uncredited)
Yasuhisa Tsutsumi ... Imamura, F-86F pilot (uncredited)
Kôji Uno ... Reporter (uncredited)
James Yagi ... Voice (uncredited)
Ren Yamamoto ... Soldier in Jeep (uncredited)
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Directed by
Ishirô Honda 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
David Duncan  U.S. version
Takeshi Kimura  writer
Ken Kuronuma  story
Takeo Murata  writer

Produced by
Frank King .... producer (US version)
Maurice King .... producer (US version)
Tomoyuki Tanaka .... producer
 
Original Music by
Akira Ifukube 
 
Cinematography by
Isamu Ashida 
 
Film Editing by
Robert S. Eisen 
Koichi Iwashita 
 
Production Design by
Tatsuo Kita 
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Jun Fukuda .... first assistant director
 
Sound Department
Masanobu Miyazaki .... sound recordist
 
Special Effects by
Eiji Tsuburaya .... director of special effects
Akira Watanabe .... special effects art director
 
Visual Effects by
Hiroshi Mukoyama .... special effects opticals
Sadamasa Arikawa .... special effects assistant camera (uncredited)
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Radon
Radon, Monster from the Sky (literal English title)
Rodan
Rodan! The Flying Monster (USA)
Die fliegenden Monster von Osaka (West Germany) (TV title) [de]
Radon (West Germany) [de]
Rodan (France) [fr]
Rodan il mostro alato (Italy) [it]
Rodan, tuntematon vihollinen (Finland) [fi]
Rodan. Los hijos del volcán (Spain) [es]
Skräck över Japan (Sweden) [sv]
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Runtime:
82 min | USA:70 min (16 mm television syndication prints) | USA:72 min (English dubbed version) | USA:74 min
Country:
Japan
Language:
Japanese | Mandarin | Tagalog
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Perspecta Sound encoding) (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
Certification:
Finland:K-16 | USA:Unrated | Sweden:15
Filming Locations:
Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan more
Company:
Toho Film (Eiga) Co. Ltd. more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
In the US version, the English dubbing changed the name of the destroyed city, which was actually Fukuoka, to Sasebo because the name of that city was more familiar to Americans since the US had major military facilities there. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: The two shots of the Rodans in their lairs are actually the same shot flipped horizontally. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in The Making of 'Killer Klowns' (2001) (V) more

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7 out of 8 people found the following comment useful.
Rodan rules., 16 April 2004
Author: giatime from Los Angeles

This is a really well made movie. The colors are great and the effects are pretty coll for 50 years ago. I love to watch these sort of movies with my six year old. Todays kids cannot see horror movies anymore because of the gore. So I have introduced him to the classics and as such enjoy the hell out of watching these sort of movies with him. The modern world has really lost that special something that comes with engaging the imagination as many of us did in the sixties and even the seventies. Rodan is probably the best of all the old toho movies. At least I know it's my favorite. Now soon comes the last in the series this Christmas and it should prove to be waesome.

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