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 ...

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.

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 Minus One Is the Oppenheimer Sequel You Didn’t Know You Needed. ... Mere days after the U.S. government dropped two nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of 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 ...

Godzilla is considered a metaphor for the atomic bombings that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Echoes of the destruction reverberated in the public consciousness through the development of ...

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 ...

The creature-feature title notwithstanding, “Godzilla Minus One” could easily be mistaken for a 1950s romantic melodrama. On one level, it’s the story of a Japanese couple raising a small ...

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.

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 ...