Hiroshima and Godzilla Portray Different Types of Post-War Grief . The highest casualty figures suggest that 140,000, or 41%, of Hiroshima’s citizens died in the atomic bombing. In ...

The 1954 film ‘Godzilla’ launched a franchise that has been warning viewers to take better care of the Earth for the past 70 years. “The fates of those who survived the infernos of Hiroshima ...

A computer monitor shows the digitalized film of a Godzilla movie at Tokyo Laboratory Ltd. in Tokyo, Aug. 27, 2014. Like the Japanese atomic survivors who were awarded the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize ...

Godzilla at 70: The monster’s warning to humanity is ... “The fates of those who survived the infernos of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were long concealed and neglected,” the Nobel committee noted ...

The original classic. When "Godzilla" premiered in 1954, Japan was not even a full decade removed from the devastating atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Back in 1954, just nine years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japanese filmmaker Ishirō Honda and special effects designer Eiji Tsuburaya dreamed up a giant dinosaur-like ...

Half of the high command even attempted to prevent the emperor’s surrender by way of a mini-coup despite the mass death at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Godzilla Minus One is ultimately grossly ...

Toho’s Godzilla Minus One — out December 1st — from director Takashi Yamazaki looks like a chilling reflection of postwar Japan’s fight to survive in new trailer.

NPR's Nathan Rott speaks with William Tsutsui about Godzilla ... So the original film came out in Japan in 1954 and was very much inspired by the atomic bombings of 1945 and Hiroshima and Nagasaki ...

Which, by any journalistic standards, is a story. Over here, "Godzilla" was king of the drive-ins: an archetypal kiddie horror flick that made $2 million (on a $100,000 budget) and begat dozens of ...

Japan’s new Godzilla movie, ‘Godzilla Minus One,’ may not have the budget of its American counterparts, ... (Hiroshima or Nagasaki are not directly addressed in the film, however.) ...

“Godzilla” is full of deep social debates, complex characters, and cutting-edge special effects for its time. Much of the film involves characters discussing their responsibilities – to each other, to ...