Godzilla: King of the Monsters!

1956

Action / Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi

37
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 85% · 26 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 72% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 9483 9.5K

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Director

Ishirô Honda Photo
Ishirô Honda

Top cast

Kokuten Kôdô Photo
Kokuten Kôdô as Old Man on Hill on Oto Island
James Hong Photo
James Hong as Ogata / Serizawa
Tsuruko Mano Photo
Tsuruko Mano as The Boy's Mother [Bit]
Shigeo Katô Photo
Shigeo Katô as JSDF with spotlight, leader of the crowd escaping
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564.3 MB
968*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 20 min
Seeds 5
1.2 GB
1440*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 20 min
Seeds 17

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by lastliberal-853-253708 7 / 10

Godzilla should not be destroyed, he should be studied.

The 1954 classic was apparently not good enough for American audiences. They remade the film with Raymond Burr narrating the action and starring as a reporter covering the incident.Rather than a subtitled film, we get one dubbed. At least they left some of the Japanese dialog.Stars of the original film, Takashi Shimura, Momoko Kôchi, and Akira Takarada, took second billing to Burr, who dominated throughout. Godzilla was a grave representation of the horrors of the H bomb; horrors that Japan knew all too well. Scenes of the destruction caused by Godzilla, and of the broken, burning bodies pulled from the rubble, look authentic enough to be documentary footage of Hiroshima or Nagasaki. The film, a huge hit in the original form, must have been therapeutic for the Japanese people.
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Reviewed by tavm 8 / 10

Raymond Burr adds some gravitas to the American-added scenes in Godzilla: King of the Monsters!

Just a few weeks ago, I watched the original Japanese version of Godzilla. So now, I just also watched the American-edited version with new scenes of Raymond Burr as American reporter Steve Martin narrating most of the movie with some of the Japanese scenes dubbed in English. Other than those new scenes, the movie has most of the same narrative with only a few scenes cut out. Burr as the reporter is quite effective when narrating or talking into a tape machine meant for his boss to receive. And it's mainly because of that narration that I'm giving this version called Godzilla: King of the Monsters! an 8 while I gave the original version a 7.

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