Ishirō Honda's momentous 1954 monster film was born out of a national tragedy in Japan. It has a bleak message for humanity ...

For 1950s teenagers, 'Godzilla' was scary fun. For Japanese audiences, the film — which turns 70 this November 3 — was much ...

With the release of a glorious new, digitally restored Criterion Collection version of the 1954 classic on 4K UHD and Blu-ray ...

A chancellor and professor of history at Ottawa University in Kansas, Bill Tsutsui has a personal connection to Godzilla.

Realizing that they may have to turn to nuclear weapons to defeat Godzilla worries the government, who are hesitant to use the very weapons that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki years prior. What’s ...

Godzilla has made something of a comeback in recent years. Ever since he stomped back into Western cinemas in 2014, it seems ...

Godzilla (1954) was a stark exercise in processing the trauma of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings, but its success ...

The iconic movie that Americans first saw was an altered version with added scenes shot at a Los Angeles studio.

“The fates of those who survived the infernos of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were long concealed and ... a towering monster who topples Tokyo with blasts of irradiated breath. The 1954 film “Godzilla” ...

Godzilla may have had the odd face lift and seen some major technological advancements over its 70 years, but no-one in ...

Godzilla in a scene from the film. Into the atomic age By 1954, Japan had survived almost a decade of nuclear exposure. In addition to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese people ...

They would not have known that Godzilla's scaly skin was a reference to the keloid scars left on the bodies of Hiroshima survivors. They would not have experienced the scenes of Godzilla's ...