Like its eponymous lumbering lizard, IshirÅ Honda's 1954 Godzilla (Gojira) moves unhurriedly but with grave intentionality, inching toward inevitable catastrophe. From the opening roar -- what ...

Godzilla was a symbol of thermonuclear weapons ... a Japanese tuna-fishing boat in 1954. Shortly after this picture was taken, it would carry a crew of 23 men and set sail to the Marshall Islands.

Akira Takarada, an actor who starred in the first “Godzilla” movie and later became a peace activist, died of pneumonia on March 14. He was 87. Born on the Korean Peninsula when it was under ...

Godzilla (1954) In the movie that started it all, Japan must deal with the sudden appearance of a destructive monster following recent atomic bomb testing. An Americanized edit of the film also ...

Set in the aftermath of Japan’s defeat in World War II, the latest Godzilla film pays sincere homage to the 1954 original. In “Godzilla Minus One,” Ryunosuke Kamiki plays Shikishima ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: The roar belongs to one of the most iconic movie monsters of all time: Godzilla. Since his debut in 1954, the King of Monsters has rampaged across ...

It's shocking to think that somehow, pop culture’s ride from Godzilla’s arrival in 1954 would lead us to a version of the monster, first designed to reflect ‘50s Japan’s fear in the wake ...