And the simple title "Gojira" was changed to "Godzilla, King of the Monsters!" A horror movie that peered into the Japanese people's fear of radiation and the potential long-term effects of the ...

Released to the public in Japan Nov. 3, 1954, audiences reacted not with laughter or with expressive fear, as Honda intended, but with pain. Japanologist and author William Tsutsui emphasized the ...

Set in the aftermath of Japan’s defeat in World War II, the latest Godzilla film pays sincere homage to the 1954 original. In “Godzilla Minus One,” Ryunosuke Kamiki plays Shikishima ...