Akira Takarada

Momoko Kôchi

Akihiko Hirata

Takashi Shimura

Fuyuki Murakami

Sachio Sakai

Ren Yamamoto

Toyoaki Suzuki

Toranosuke Ogawa

Hiroshi Hayashi

Seijirô Onda

Kin Sugai

Haruo Nakajima

Tsuruko Mano

Kokuten Kōdō

Tadashi Okabe

Jirô Mitsuaki

Ren Imaizumi

Sôkichi Maki

Kenji Sahara

Yasuhisa Tsutsumi

Takeo Oikawa

Junpei Natsuki

Katsumi Tezuka

Saburô Iketani

Shizuko Azuma

Shizuko Higashi

Kiyoshi Kamata

Keiji Sakakida

Tamae Sengo

Ishirō Honda

Masao Tamai

Kazuji Taira

Takeo Murata

Tomoyuki Tanaka

Akira Ifukube

Shigeru Kayama

Eiji Tsuburaya

Satoru Chûko

Takeo Kita

Hisashi Shimonaga

Norio Tone

Sadao Iizuka

Hiroshi Mukoyama

Kanju Yagi

Yasuei Yagi

Teizô Toshimitsu

Ichirô Minawa

Akira Watanabe

Kuichirô Kishida

Chōshirō Ishii

Yasuaki Sakamoto

Kyuzo Yamamoto

Yôichi Manoda

Hajime Tsuburaya

Motoyoshi Tomioka

Shuzaburo Araki

Fuminori Ōhashi

Masao Yagi

Tohl Narita

Yasuyuki Inoue

Yoshio Irie

Yoshio Suzuki

Sei Ikeno

Sadamasa Arikawa

Iwao Mori

Teruo Maki

Koji Kajita

Eizo Kaimai

Fumio Nakadai

Shoji Ogawa

Taka Yuki

Yuzuru Aizawa

Shinji Kojima

Seishichi Kojima

Susumu Takebayashi

Nobuyuki Tanaka

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Godzilla

The big political atomic lizard is cheesed off!

After H bomb testing in the pacific, ships start to go missing and a remote island is apparently under attack from a prehistoric monster. Japanese scientists hasten to find out just what is going on, what they find is Gojira, and he is mightily hell bent on destruction...next stop Tokyo.

Gojira is such an influential film, it has spawned many sequels, remakes, copyists, and numerous homages, and of course there is two versions of this film for the viewer to choose from. The American version is a decent enough watch, it has integrated Raymond Burr into this original versions plot, and although it's unintentionally funny at times, it holds up pretty well as a no brainer piece of fluff. But it fails to compare to this original Ishirô Honda classic because this has a wonderful ambiance of fear at its heart, coming some 10 years after the Hiroshima bomb, the Japanese audiences of the time would surely have noted the heavy aura of destruction seaming through the picture. 

Watching it today, now that it's restored in all its original glory, is still a memorable and exhilarating experience, the build up is perfect, we are practically on the edge of our seats waiting to glimpse the giant atomic creature, and when he/it/she shows up for the first time, it gives us a truly memorable classic piece of cinema. Sadly the film is hampered a touch by a meandering romantic sub-plot, but the performances (notably Takeshi Shimura) are very engaging, while Akira Ifkube's score is poignantly perfect.

As man in a rubber suit movies go, Gojira has no peers, it's smart, fun, and above all else, memorable. 8/10

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