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

Series:

• Criterion collection
• Criterion collection ; 594
• Criterion collection ; 594 DVD.

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.