“ゴジラか、科学兵器か、驚異と戦慄の一大攻防戦！ 放射能を吐く大怪獣の暴威は日本全土を恐怖のドン底に叩き込んだ！”
原水爆実験の影響で、大戸島の伝説の怪獣ゴジラが復活し、東京に上陸。帝都は蹂躙され廃墟と化した。ゴジラ抹殺の手段はあるのか・・・。戦後の日本映画界に特撮怪獣映画というジャンルを築いた、記念すべきゴジラ映画第1作。核の恐怖を描いた、本多猪四郎の真摯な本編ドラマと、円谷英二のリアリズム溢れる特撮演出が絶妙のコンビネーションを見せ、「ゴジラ」の名を一躍世界に轟かせた傑作。
映画化された原作や関連書籍を読んで、映像との違いや独自の世界観を楽しみましょう。
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The big political atomic lizard is cheesed off! After H bomb testing in the pacific, ships start to go missing and a remote island is apparently under attack from a prehistoric monster. Japanese scientists hasten to find out just what is going on, what they find is Gojira, and he is mightily hell bent on destruction...next stop Tokyo. Gojira is such an influential film, it has spawned many sequels, remakes, copyists, and numerous homages, and of course there is two versions of this film for the viewer to choose from. The American version is a decent enough watch, it has integrated Raymond Burr into this original versions plot, and although it's unintentionally funny at times, it holds up pretty well as a no brainer piece of fluff. But it fails to compare to this original Ishirô Honda classic because this has a wonderful ambiance of fear at its heart, coming some 10 years after the Hiroshima bomb, the Japanese audiences of the time would surely have noted the heavy aura of destruction seaming through the picture. Watching it today, now that it's restored in all its original glory, is still a memorable and exhilarating experience, the build up is perfect, we are practically on the edge of our seats waiting to glimpse the giant atomic creature, and when he/it/she shows up for the first time, it gives us a truly memorable classic piece of cinema. Sadly the film is hampered a touch by a meandering romantic sub-plot, but the performances (notably Takeshi Shimura) are very engaging, while Akira Ifkube's score is poignantly perfect. As man in a rubber suit movies go, Gojira has no peers, it's smart, fun, and above all else, memorable. 8/10
