Gojira/Godzilla, King of the Monsters
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- DVD Release Date: 09/05/2006
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Features
Includes the U.S. theatrical release Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1956), starring Raymond Burr; Making of the Godzilla Suit featurette; Godzilla: story development featurette; Audio commentaries by Steve Ryfle and Ed Godziszewski; Original movie trailers; English subtitles
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Disc #1 -- Gojira: The Original Japanese Masterpiece
1. Opening Titles [2:03]
2. Attack on the Eiko-Maru [1:03]
3. Missing at Sea [4:34]
4. Sole Survivor [3:27]
5. Myth of the Monster [1:16]
6. A State of Emergency [4:11]
7. Analysis of the Aftermath [3:59]
8. Atom Breeds Monsters [8:29]
9. The Navy Responds [2:13]
10. Secret Research [7:11]
11. Science vs. Nature [5:23]
12. Destruction From the Deep [5:18]
13. A Daring Plan [1:32]
14. To Study or Destroy [2:40]
15. Godzilla Attacks [4:50]
16. Unstoppable Rampage [2:31]
17. Live From the Scene [4:53]
18. Air Strike [2:58]
19. The Human Toll [1:49]
20. An Ultimate Weapon? [6:39]
21. A Moral Dilemma [3:22]
22. Never to Be Used Again [3:36]
23. Weapon of Choice [3:22]
24. Danger of the Deep [8:16]
Disc #2 -- Godzilla, King of the Monsters
1. Introduction "This Was Tokyo" [4:35]
2. Stopover in Japan [6:43]
3. Fear and Panic [11:56]
4. Island Monster [10:06]
5. Dr. Serizawa [7:22]
6. Godzilla Emerges [6:18]
7. Tokyo Bay Terror [13:43]
8. Formula for Success [9:41]
9. Serizawa's Sacrifice [9:52]
Editorial Reviews
Everybody loves Godzilla, the irradiated giant monster that first terrorized, then defended Japan throughout the Cold War and beyond. The first official Western entry to the series, Godzilla, King of the Monsters, was recut from Inoshiro Honda's original blockbuster Gojira. Interspersing English-language scenes starring Raymond Burr as an American reporter, the film follows a dinosaur -- resurrected by underwater nuclear testing -- as it emerges from the sea to flatten Tokyo. The result is a massively entertaining peek at postwar nuclear paranoia. As a living, fire-breathing embodiment of the A-bomb, Godzilla inflicts random acts of carnage and radioactive destruction on the populace. The metaphor extends to Burr's detached Americanism and to the ironic use of another doomsday weapon to destroy a monster created as a nuclear side effect in the first place. The menacing Godzilla is ultimately just a guy in a rubber suit stomping on models while actors speak in laughably dubbed dialogue, but that's the fun part. If you know only the recent American version, you owe it to yourself to check out the real thing. Amy Robinson, Barnes & Noble
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