Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956)
Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956)
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Cast & Crew.
Raymond Burr
Steve Martin
Takashi Shimura
Dr. Yamane
Momoko Kôchi
Emiko Yamane
Akira Takarada
Ogata
Akihiko Hirata
Dr. Serizawa
Sachio Sakai
Hagiwara
Fuyuki Murakami
Dr. Tabata
Ren Yamamoto
Seiji
Ren Yamamoto
Seiji
Toyoaki Suzuki
Shinkichi
Tadashi Okabe
Dr. Tabata's Assistant
Toranosuke Ogawa
President of Company
Frank Iwanaga
Security Officer Tomo Iwanaga
Sammee Tong
Dr. Yamane / Dr. Tabata (voice) (uncredited)
James Hong
Ogata / Dr. Serizawa / Hagiwara (voice) (uncredited)
Mikel Conrad
George Lawrence (uncredited)
Paul Frees
Unidentified Character (voice) (uncredited)
Hiroshi Hayashi
Chairman of Diet Committee (uncredited)
Ren Imaizumi
Radio Operator (uncredited)
Kokuten Kōdō
The Old Fisherman (uncredited)
Takeo Oikawa
Chief of Emergency Headquarters (uncredited)
Tsuruko Mano
The Boy's Mother (uncredited)
Kenji Sahara
Man on Boat (uncredited)
Kin Sugai
Ozawa-san (uncredited)
Lee Miller
Man in Line at Airport (uncredited)
Haruo Nakajima
Godzilla (uncredited)
Katsumi Tezuka
Godzilla (uncredited)
Ryosaku Takasugi
Godzilla (uncredited)
Al C. Ward
Screenplay
Tomoyuki Tanaka
Story / Producer
Harry Rybnick
Producer
Richard Kay
Producer
Hiroshi Mukoyama
Visual Effects
Sadao Iizuka
Visual Effects
Takeo Kita
Art Direction / Production Design
Eiji Tsuburaya
Story / Visual Effects Director / Special Effects / Visual Effects
Edward B. Barison
Producer
Terry O. Morse
Story / Director / ADR Supervisor / Supervising Film Editor
Satoru Chûko
Art Direction / Production Design
Joseph E. Levine
Executive Producer
Masao Yagi
Assistant Costume Designer / Modeling / Costume Designer
Teizô Toshimitsu
Sculptor / Costume Designer / Modeling
Kanju Yagi
Costume Designer / Modeling
Chōshirō Ishii
Lighting Technician
Yasuei Yagi
Costume Designer / Modeling
Teruo Maki
Production Manager
Hajime Tsuburaya
Special Effects / Visual Effects Camera
Kyuzo Yamamoto
Property Master
Sei Ikeno
Additional Music
Kuichirô Kishida
Lighting Technician / VFX Lighting Artist
Fuminori Ōhashi
Costume Designer / Costume Consultant
Tohl Narita
Visual Effects Art Director
Yasuyuki Inoue
Visual Effects Art Director
Akira Watanabe
Visual Effects Art Director
Yôichi Manoda
Visual Effects Camera / Special Effects
Yoshio Suzuki
Assistant Costume Designer / Modeling / Costume Designer
Yoshio Irie
Visual Effects Art Director
Shuzaburo Araki
Visual Effects
Motoyoshi Tomioka
Visual Effects Camera / Special Effects
Sadamasa Arikawa
Special Effects / VFX Director of Photography
Yasuaki Sakamoto
Visual Effects Production Manager
Arthur B. Smith
Sound
Shigeru Kayama
Novel / Lyricist / Original Story
Ira Webb
Assistant Director
Terry Morse Jr.
Assistant Sound Editor / Assistant Editor
Guy Roe
Director of Photography
Akira Ifukube
Music
Ishirō Honda
Director / Screenplay
Harold Ross
Producer
Terry Turner
Executive Producer
Edmund Goldman
Executive Producer
Koji Kajita
First Assistant Director
Shoji Ogawa
Special Effects
Taka Yuki
Visual Effects
Yuzuru Aizawa
Assistant Camera
Shinji Kojima
Assistant Gaffer
Seishichi Kojima
Assistant Gaffer
Susumu Takebayashi
Second Assistant Director
Nobuyuki Tanaka
Sound Assistant
Eizo Kaimai
Costume Designer / Modeling
Media.
Details.
Release DateMay 18, 1956
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 21m
Content RatingNR
Budget$25,000
Box Office$2,000,000
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This Movie Is About.
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Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (Japanese: 怪獣王ゴジラ, Hepburn: Kaijū Ō Gojira) is a 1956 kaiju film directed by Terry O. Morse and Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. It is a heavily re-edited American localization, or "Americanization", of the 1954 Japanese film Godzilla. The film was a Japanese-American co-production, with the original footage produced by Toho Co., Ltd., and the new footage produced by Jewell Enterprises. The film stars Raymond Burr, Takashi Shimura, Momoko Kōchi, Akira Takarada, and Akihiko Hirata, with Haruo Nakajima and Katsumi Tezuka as Godzilla. In the film, an American reporter covers a giant reptilian monster's attack on Japan.
In 1955, Edmund Goldman acquired the 1954 film from Toho and enlisted the aid of Paul Schreibman, Harold Ross, Richard Kay, and Joseph E. Levine to produce a revised version for American audiences. This version dubbed most of the Japanese dialogue into English, and altered and removed key plot points and themes. New footage was produced with Burr interacting with body doubles and Japanese-American actors in an attempt to make it seem like Burr was part of the original Japanese production.
Godzilla, King of the Monsters! was theatrically released in the United States in late April 1956, and was followed by an international release. In the U.S., it received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $2 million at the box office against an estimated $100,000 production budget. The film was responsible for introducing Godzilla to a worldwide audience, as the 1954 film remained unavailable officially outside of Japan until 2004.