Gojira (Blu-ray) (1954)

Editor's Note The testing of nuclear weapons in the Pacific Ocean triggers the awakening of a dreadful, 400-foot-tall, fire-breathing prehistoric lizard who commences to wreak havoc on the city of Tokyo. The original Japanese version of GODZILLA, without the Americanized addition of Raymond Burr.

	Takashi Shimura
	Inoshiro Honda - Director

Entertainment Weekly
"GODZILLA is still the most awesome of tacky movie monsters..." 05/14/2004 p.49

New York Times
"Ishiro Honda's seminal monster movie....Images of a devastated miniature Tokyo have clearly been modeled on the newsreels of Hiroshima and Nagasaki..." 09/05/2006 p.E3

A.V. Club
"Honda pours a vast inventory of nuclear references and cultural fears, including direct talk of the ethical responsibility of scientists, allusions to Hiroshima and H-bomb testing in the Pacific, and a moving swell of national resilience and pride." -- Grade: A 02/01/2012