Ishiro Honda directed this groundbreaking, heavily influential and immensely popular film that sees Japan attacked for the first time by Godzilla, a gigantic prehistoric lizard who has reawakened mutated and angry after radiation exposure from the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan at the end of WWII. The Japanese military seems helpless to stop him, since all their weapons prove useless, until troubled Dr. Serizawa discovers the perfect weapon to destroy the monster...if he can bring himself to use it. Though the F/X are primitive by today's standards, the script is unusually adult and sober-minded, with effective direction and music.
First in a long-running(and disjointed) series that is still going today...
First in a long-running(and disjointed) series that is still going today...