Godzilla (Japanese: ゴジラ, Hepburn: Gojira)[b] is a 1954 Japanese epic [c] kaiju film directed and co-written by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. Produced and distributed by Toho Co., Ltd., it is the first film in the Godzilla franchise.

Mar 26, 2025 · Godzilla (ゴジラ, Gojira) is a 1954 tokusatsu kaiju film directed and co-written (with Takeo Murata) by Ishiro Honda from a story by Shigeru Kayama, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. Produced by Toho, it is the first installment in …

The entirety of Godzilla films from the Showa era with the original Japanese audio and English subtitles (burned in)

Collected here for the first time are all fifteen Godzilla films of Japan’s Showa era, in a landmark set showcasing the technical wizardry, fantastical storytelling, and indomitable international appeal that established the most iconic giant monster the cinema has ever seen.

Godzilla (ゴジラ Gojira?) is an irradiated reptilian daikaiju created by Toho that makes its first appearance in the 1954 Showa Godzilla film, Godzilla, as the film's titular main antagonist.

A reporter stumbles upon weather experiments on a tropical island, discovering giant mantises, a castaway woman, and an infant monster that Godzilla must adopt as his own.

Oct 29, 2019 · High-definition digital transfers of all fifteen Godzilla films made between 1954 and 1975, released together for the first time, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks

Godzilla was theorized to be a relict oceanic reptile whose exposure to thermonuclear testing transformed it into the current monster that plagued the waters.

Godzilla (a.k.a. Gojira) is the roaring granddaddy of all monster movies. It’s also a remarkably humane and melancholy drama, made in Japan at a time when the country was reeling from nuclear attack and H-bomb testing in the Pacific.

Mar 18, 2025 · A fter the dawn of the Japanese monster-movie genre (kaiju eiga) in the 1950s, one king reigned supreme for more than twenty years. Ishiro Honda’s atomic-age allegory Godzilla (1954) spawned not only a successful film series but an entire wave of popular entertainment— tokusatsu, or the Japanese special-effects movie. Throughout the franchise’s inaugural run of fifteen features—often ...