Godzilla Gojira
1954
DVD
Godzilla: A prehistoric monster ravages metropolitan Tokyo. Scientists suspect that H-bomb tests awakened it from a two-million year sleep. They try to develop techniques to stop the monster.
Item Details
ISBN: 9781604655117
Edition: Two-DVD special edition.
Description:
- 2 videodiscs (96 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inches + 1 book (14 pages : illustrations ; 18.5 cm).
- polychrome
- digital
- optical
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
Target Audience Note: Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated.
Other Title:
- Gojira
- Godzilla, king of the monsters.
Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1954.
- American version originally released as a motion picture in 1956.
- Special features include: New high-definition digital restoration; Audio commentrary by film historian David Kalat; New interviews with actors Akira Takarada and Haruo Nakajima and special effects technicians Yoshio Irie and Eizo Kaimai; Interview with score composer Akira Ifukube; Godzilla photographic featurette; New interview with Japanese-film critic Tadao Sato; Audio essay describing the tragic fate of the fishing vessel Daigo Fukuryu Maru, the real-life event that inspired the movie; Movie trailers; New English subtitle translation.
- Godzilla: director, Ishiro Honda ; producer, Tomoyuki Tanaka ; original story, Shigeru Kayama ; screenplay, Takeo Murata, Ishiro Honda ; music, Akira Ifukube.
- Godzilla, king of the monsters: directors, Terry Morse, Ishiro Honda ; producer, Tomoyuki Tanaka ; screenplay, Takeo Murata, Ishiro Honda ; original screenplay, Kayama Shigeru ; music, Akira Ifukube.
- Godzilla: Akira Takarada, Momoko Kochi, Akihiko Hirata, Takashi Shimura.
- Godzilla, king of the monsters: Raymond Burr, Akira Takarada, Takashi Shimura, Momoko Kochi.
- For private home use only.
- Godzilla: Japanese with English SDH.
- Godzilla, king of the monsters: English.
Contents:
- Disc 1: Godzilla.
- Disc 2: Godzilla, king of the monsters.
Publisher or Distributor Number: CC2099D
Control Number: 2235446
UPC: 715515089517
Publisher: [New York] : Criterion Collection, [2012]Series:
Subjects:
- Godzilla (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
- Legends -- Japan -- Fiction.
- Monsters -- Japan -- Fiction.
Genre:
- Feature films.
- Fiction.
- Foreign films.
- Horror films.
- Motion pictures, Japanese.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Other Authors:
- Burr, Raymond, 1917-1993.
- Classic Media, Inc.
- Hirata, Akihiko, 1927-1984.
- Honda, Ishirō, 1911-1993.
- Ifukube, Akira, 1914-2006.
- Janus Films.
- Jewell Enterprises.
- Kayama, Shigeru, 1909-1975.
- Kōchi, Momoko, 1932-1998.
- Morse, Terry, 1906-1984.
- Murata, Takeo, 1910-1994.
- Shimura, Takashi, 1905-1982.
- Takarada, Akira, 1934-2022.
- Tanaka, Tomoyuki, 1910-1997.
- Toho Pictures, Inc.