Gojira = Godzilla

Gojira Godzilla

ゴジラ /

Blu-ray - 2024

American nuclear weapons testing results in the creation of a seemingly unstoppable, dinosaur-like beast.

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Subjects
Godzilla > (Fictitious character) > Drama.
Legends > Japan > Drama.
Nuclear excavation > Drama.
Science fiction films.
Horror films.
Japan > Drama.
Monster films.
Godzilla films.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genres
Monster films
Godzilla films
Feature films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
[Irvington, NY] : The Criterion Collection [2024]
Language
Japanese
English
Corporate Author
Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, 東宝株式会社
Corporate Author
Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, 東宝株式会社 (production company)
Other Authors
Ishirō Honda, 1911-1993 (film director), Shigeru Kayama, 1909-1975 (screenwriter), Takeo Murata, 1910-1994 (film producer), Tomoyuki Tanaka, 1910-1997 (actor), Akira Takarada, 1934-2022 (-), Momoko Kōchi, 1932-1998, Akihiko Hirata, 1927-1984, Takashi Shimura, 1905-1982, Fuyuki Murakami, Sachio Sakai, 1929-1998, Raymond Burr, 1917-1993
Edition
Blu-ray special edition ; Blu-ray edition
Item Description
Originally released as a motion picture in 1954.
Includes the orignal Japanese (1954) and Americanized (1956, Godzilla, king of the monsters) versions.
Special features: Audio commentary for both movies by film historian David Kalat; Interviews with actors Akira Takarada and Haruo Nakajima and special effects technicians Yoshio Irie and Eizo Kaimai; Interview with legendary Godzilla score composer Akira Ifukube; Featurette detailing Godzilla's photographic effects, introduced by special effects director Koichi Kawakita and special effects photographer Motoyoshi Tomioka; Interview with Japanese-film critic Tadao Sato; The Unluckiest Dragon, an illustrated audio essay featuring historian Greg Pflugfelder describing the tragic fate of the fishing vessel Daigo Fukuryu Maru, a real-life event that inspired Godzilla; Trailers.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
Production Credits
Director of photography, Masao Tamai ; editor, Taichi Taira ; music, Akira Ifukube.
ISBN
9781604655100
Contents unavailable.
Review by Library Journal Review

Unleashed by U.S. military hydrogen-bomb testing, the titular fire-breathing monster tosses trains, crushes cars, and generally wreaks havoc on a skittish postwar Japan forced to rely on its own doomsday weapon for self-defense. A cautionary tale about the side effects of nuclear weapons, Ishiro Honda's classic creature feature found its message blunted in the 1956 Hollywood "reworking" (thankfully included as an extra), starring Raymond Burr as a reporter inserted into the English-dubbed original. For retro-movie aficionados. [See Trailers, LJ 12/11.] (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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