Gojira
Summary:
One of the longest-running series in film history began with Ishiro Honda's grim, black-and-white allegory for the devastation wrought on Japan by the atomic bomb. As his visual metaphor, Honda uses a 400-foot-tall mutant dinosaur called Gojira, awakened from the depths of the sea as a rampaging nuclear nightmare, complete with glowing dorsal fins and fiery, radioactive breath. Cru... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Akihiko Hirata - (Daisuke Serizawa)
Momoko Kochi - (Emiko Yamane)
Kokuten Kodo - (Gisaku, Oto Island Patriarch)
Haruo Nakajima - (Newspaper Employee (Japanese version only)/Power Subs)
Kenji Sahara - (Man aboard Ship)
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Review:
While you might have a hard time convincing most people, Inoshiro Honda's Gojira -- the film whose success launched the long-running Godzilla series and helped to make Japanese monster movies one of the nation's best known exports -- is actually an intelligent and somber parable about the legacy and consequences of the atomic bomb, told fr... Continue >>
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