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Director:
Ishirô Honda
Writers:
David Duncan (U.S. version)
Takeshi Kimura (writer)
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Contact:
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Release Date:
August 1957 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi more
Tagline:
Never a Horror Like It! more
Plot:
When a village is besieged by giant caterpillars, a more horrifying discovery is made in their underground home... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
The Japanese Them more (38 total)

Cast

  (Credited cast)
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 (as Tsurue Ichimanji)
Saburo Iketani ... News Reader
Saburo Kadowaki ... Sunagawa's colleague
Tateo Kawasaki ... Tsunesan, miner
Kanta Kisaragi ... Suteyan, miner
Takuzo Kumagaya ... 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
Jiro 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
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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
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Perspecta Sound encoding) (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
First Japanese monster movie filmed in color. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Shigeru and the scientists are in the cavern looking for traces of the egg Rodan hatched from, he finds a piece of shell and hands it to Kashiwagi. However, the sample in Kashiwagi's lab is much larger than the sample that was taken from the cave. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "The Angry Video Game Nerd: Godzilla (#4.15)" (2009) more

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6 out of 7 people found the following comment useful.
The Japanese Them, 14 October 2002
Author: Brian Washington (Sargebri@att.net) from Los Angeles, California

This film is one of the best of the kaiju eigas that Toho ever made. The reason for this is that it is played much like the movie that in a way inspired it, "Them". The way the film begins plays almost like them did, the police and mine workers wondering who, or what, is responsible for the deaths of four men. The tension builds and builds from the first appearance of the giant insects to the destruction of Fukuoka (for some reason called Sasebo in the American version). Even though Rodan the monster did not become as successful as Godzilla, the film is more of a thrill ride and definitely should be hailed as a great science fiction film.

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