Special Effects by Eiji Tsumuraya Hiroshi Mukoyama Akira Watanabe Kuichiro KishidaĬast Akira Takarada Momoko Kochi Akihiko Hirata Takashi Shimura Fuyuki Murakami Sachio Sakai Toranosuke Ogawa Ren Yamamoto Kan Hayashi Seijiro Onda Takeo Oikawa Keiji Sakakida Toyoaki Suzuki Kuninori Kodo Kin Sugai Tamae Kawai Shizuko Azuma Tsuruko Mano Tadashi Okabe Kiyoshi Kamoda Ren Imaizumi Masaaki Tachibana Ichiro Tatei Yasuhisa Tsutsumi Jiro Suzukawa Saburo Iketani Katsumi Tezuka Haruo Nakajima The following are transcripts of the Japanese opening credits of Godzilla, and the end credits of the film's 1956 American re-edit, Godzilla, King of the Monsters! However, even as the destruction mounts, Serizawa fears revealing his invention to the world out of fear it will become a far worse threat to humanity than nuclear weapons. Only the young scientist Daisuke Serizawa holds the key to possibly defeating the invincible monster, a deadly chemical weapon called the Oxygen Destroyer. The film tells the story of Godzilla, a huge prehistoric beast roused from his ancient slumber by H-bomb testing in the South Pacific, who proceeds to lay waste to Tokyo. Responsible for launching the long-running Godzilla series as well as the genres of both kaiju eiga and tokusatsu in general, Godzilla was an incredibly successful and influential film both in Japan and internationally. The film was released to Japanese theaters on November 3, 1954, and to American theaters as Godzilla, King of the Monsters! on April 27, 1956.
Godzilla (ゴジラ Gojira) is a 1954 tokusatsu kaiju film produced by Toho, and the first installment in the Godzilla series as well as the Showa series.