70 Years of Godzilla

70 years ago, on November 3, 1954, GOJIRA opened in theaters across Japan. Directed by Ishiro Honda, it told a stark tale of a prehistoric dinosaur presumably awakened by nuclear bomb testing in the Pacific and revived by radioactivity to rise up off the coast of Japan and terrorize shipping lanes and a fishing village before wreaking mass destruction in Tokyo, prompting a secretive scientist to reveal his creation of a deadly weapon, the Oxygen Destroyer, which can be used in the waters off Tokyo to kill the sleeping beast. The name “Gojira” comes from that of a monster god who is

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