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Title: Godzilla
Condition: New
Format: Blu-ray
Type: Blu-ray
EAN: 5060952893841
Genre: Sci-Fi
Release Date: 11/11/2024
Description: Godzilla (a.k.a. Gojira) is the roaring granddaddy of all monster movies. It’s also a remarkably humane and melancholy drama, made in Japan at a time when the country was reeling from nuclear attack and H-bomb testing in the Pacific. Its rampaging radioactive beast, the poignant embodiment of an entire population’s fears, became a beloved international icon of destruction, spawning more than thirty sequels. A thrilling, tactile spectacle that continues to be a cult phenomenon, the original 1954 Japanese version is presented here, along with Godzilla, King of the Monsters, the 1956 “Americanized” version.

Film Info

Japan
1954
96 minutes
Black & White
1.37:1
Japanese
Spine #594
Language: Japanese
Studio: Criterion Collection
Language: Japanese
Subtitle Language: English
Director: Ishirô Honda
Actor: Toranosuke Ogawa, Toyoaki Suzuki, Sachio Sakai, Hiroshi Hayashi, Ren Yamamoto, Momoko Kochi, Fuyuki Murakami, Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata, Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata, Akira Takarada
Certificate: 12
No Of Discs: 1
Run Time: 96 minutes
Region Code: Blu-ray: B (Europe, AU, NZ, Africa...)
Type: DVD & Blu-ray
Special Features:
New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
High-definition digital restoration of Godzilla, King of the Monsters, Terry Morse’s 1956 reworking of the original, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
Audio commentary for both movies by film historian David Kalat
Interviews with actors Akira Takarada and Haruo Nakajima and special effects technicians Yoshio Irie and Eizo Kaimai
Interview with legendary Godzilla score composer Akira Ifukube
Featurette detailing Godzilla’s photographic effects, introduced by special effects director Koichi Kawakita and special effects photographer Motoyoshi Tomioka
Interview with Japanese-film critic Tadao Sato
The Unluckiest Dragon, an illustrated audio essay featuring historian Greg Pflugfelder describing the tragic fate of the fishing vessel Daigo Fukuryu Maru, a real-life event that inspired Godzilla
Trailers
PLUS: An essay by critic J. Hoberman
Cover by Bill Sienkiewicz
Release Year: 2024

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