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(1954)

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Sex & Nudity

  • When we are first introduced to Odo Island, there are two elderly women on the beach. It's not clear if you see the side of their breast or their bra, but no nipples if it was the side.

Violence & Gore

  • The general mayhem the film presents is more catastrophic and shocking, rather than violent or gorey.
  • The first Godzilla film features a dark, depressing tone due that reminded Japanese audiences about the horrors of nuclear destruction.
  • Godzilla smashes several buildings containing people, and in one scene uses his atomic breath to incinerate some. People are seen falling several stories to their death.
  • People are seen bleeding and being taken into medical care immediately.

Profanity

  • 1 use of fool, damned and bastard
  • In the Japanese version of the film, a young boy repeatedly says "Damned beast!" while Godzilla destroys the city. One use of "Bastard"

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Drugs, recreational: None
  • Smoking: None
  • Several passengers on board a cruise ship drink alcohol. In the American version of the film, Steve Martin smokes on board a plane.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Godzilla in this film is depicted as a potent metaphor for the horror and destruction of the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The tone of the film is much darker than other films in the series, reflecting the seriousness of the subject matter.
  • The scene where the school girls sing prayer for peace is extremely depressing.
  • Unlike other godzilla movies you actually see the people godzilla kills and this leads to some extremely disturbing scenes while not too graphic are horrific in what they depict.
  • The scene were the mother comforts her children and saying they will join their already deceased father is extremely upsetting and disturbing.
  • A boys mother and brother are killed earlier in the movie while he screams frantically before there house is crushed by godzilla, this scene is upsetting.
  • Godzilla's attack on the city with the city in a sea of flames can be found unsettling.
  • A young woman and her child huddle by a building as Gojira approaches. She tells the child, "We will see Daddy soon." It is assumed that they are killed.
  • In the Japanese version, Godzilla burns down a school, igniting children in flames, killing them.
  • Church choirs sing in despair, people are seen dying or dead in hospitals, and kids are heard bawling in the background.
  • The destruction the monster causes, as well as the sight of the suffering, wounded and radiated patients at a hospital are also disturbing.
  • Some may find the monster's signature roar frightening.

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • The main character sacrifices himself and kills Godzilla with the Oxygen Destroyer underwater which kills him too.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The ending is super emotional and disturbing.
  • When Godzilla is killed, his living flesh dissolves, and his bare skeleton is then shown resting on the ocean floor. His fate is shared by a main protagonist.

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