The original Japanese masterpiece.
The ocean's surface boils white-hot and a Japanese freighter mysteriously vanishes in the Pacific. Rescue boats meets the same fate, and the superstitious villagers of Odo Island fear an ancient legend has come true: the legend of Godzilla! Reawakened from eons-long sleep by an H-bomb test, the behemoth seeks revenge on the civilized world, turning Tokyo into a wasteland of atomic fire and rubble. Caught in the monster's path of destruction are young lovers Emiko and Ogata, who must betray their friend Dr. Serizawa, a brilliant but tormented scientist, in order to save the world.
Classic Media presents the original and uncut Japanese-language version of Ishiro Honda's Gojira (1954), critically acclaimed as a bold anti-nuclear allegory and one of the greatest monster movies of all time. Also included is Godzilla: King of the Monsters (1956), the popular "Americanized" version starring Raymond Burr as a reporter covering Godzilla's rampage.
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Raymond Burr | Steve Martin |
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Takashi Shimura | Dr. Yamane |
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Momoko Kochi | Emiko |
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Akira Takarada | Ogata |
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Akihiko Hirata | Dr. Serizawa |
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Sachio Sakai | Hagiwara |
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Fuyuki Murakami | Dr. Tabata |
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Ren Yamamoto | Seiji |
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Toyoaki Suzuki | Shinkichi |
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Tadashi Okabe | Dr. Tabata's Assistant |
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Toranosuke Ogawa | President of Company |
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Frank Iwanaga | Tomo Iwanaga - Security Officer |
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Mikel Conrad | George Lawrence |
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Paul Frees | Unidentified Character |
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Fuji | Police Officer at Airport |
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Hiroshi Hayashi | |
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James Hong | Ogata |
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Ren Imaizumi | Radio Operator |
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Dale Ishimoto | Dale Ishimoto |
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Shigeo Kato | JSDF with Spotlight - Leader of the Crowd Escaping |
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Akio Kusama | Otoshima Islander |
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Kokuten Kodo | Old Man on Hill on Oto Island |
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Tsuruko Mano | The Boy's Mother |
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Lee Miller | Man in Line at Airport |
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Teruko Mita | Activist |
| Director | Ishiro Honda |
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| Terry O. Morse |
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| Writer | Shigeru Kayama, Takeo Murata, Ishiro Honda, Terry O. Morse, Tomoyuki Tanaka, Al C. Ward | |
| Producer | Edward B. Barison, Richard Kay, Joseph E. Levine, Iwao Mori, Harry Rybnick, Al C. Ward, Tomoyuki Tanaka, Terry Turner | |
| Musician | Akira Ifukube | |
| Edition | Gojira Deluxe Collector's Edition |
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| Packaging | Custom Case |
| Nr Discs | 2 |
| Screen Ratios | Fullscreen (4:3, Letterboxed) |
| Audio Tracks | Dolby Digital Stereo [English] Dolby Digital Stereo [Japanese] |
| Subtitles | English |
| Distributor | Classic Media |
| Layers | Single side, Single layer |
| Edition Release Date | Sep 05, 2006 |
| Regions | 1 |