The Dawn of Kaiju Eiga

The origins of Godzilla!

8.72019·50m

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Japan, 1954. A legend emerges from the ashes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, devastated by atomic bombs in 1945. The creature's name is Godzilla. The film that tells its story is the first of kaiju eiga, the giant monster movies.

Cast

Akira Takarada

Haruo Nakajima

Kenpachirō Satsuma

Shusuke Kaneko

Akira Kubo

Hiroshi Koizumi

Kazuki Ōmori

Koichi Kawakita

Masaaki Tezuka

Yoshikazu Ishii

Alain Vézina

Daniel Aguilar

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The Dawn of Kaiju Eiga

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