Gojira vs. Godzilla, the Birth of the King of Monsters by Jim Towns

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Gojira vs. Godzilla, the Birth of the King of Monsters by Jim Towns 31 May, 2019

This week marks the release of Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and it made me want to revisit the original film, as a way of remembering where this watershed character came from: Ishiro Honda’s 1954 masterpiece, Gojira.

Gojira was partially inspired by the 1933 American film King Kong, and also by a film called The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms which had come out the year before-- but MOSTLY Gojira was inspired by the destruction of Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki by atomic bombs at the end of World War 2.

Gojira is not only a vastly superior version of what Western audiences commonly know as Godzilla... it’s really an entirely different film.

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