An American reporter visiting Tokyo becomes a witness to the city's destruction by a dinosaur-like beast awoken from undersea hibernation by atom bomb testing.An American reporter visiting Tokyo becomes a witness to the city's destruction by a dinosaur-like beast awoken from undersea hibernation by atom bomb testing.An American reporter visiting Tokyo becomes a witness to the city's destruction by a dinosaur-like beast awoken from undersea hibernation by atom bomb testing.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
- Emiko
- (as Momoko Kochi)
- George Lawrence
- (uncredited)
- Unidentified Character
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- Police Officer at Airport
- (uncredited)
- Ogata
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- …
- Radio Operator
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaGodzilla's roar was made by dragging a resin-coated leather glove up and down a contrabass and having the subsequent recording slowed down significantly.
- GoofsThe airplanes are seen on strings.
- Quotes
[first lines]
Steve Martin: [in voice over] This is Tokyo. Once a city of six million people. What has happened here was caused by a force which up until a few days ago was entirely beyond the scope of Man's imagination. Tokyo, a smoldering memorial to the unknown, an unknown which at this very moment still prevails and could at any time lash out with its terrible destruction anywhere else in the world. There were once many people here who could've told of what they saw... now there are only a few. My name is Steve Martin. I'm a foreign correspondent for United World News. I was headed for an assignment in Cairo, when I stopped off in Tokyo for a social call, but it turned out to be a visit to the living hell of another world.
- Crazy creditsMany prints and videos have absolutely no credits (including the so-called "uncut" version released on DVD by Simitar in 1998), beyond the title at the start (with a clearly video-generated copyright notice below it) and a "The End" graphic at the close. Classic Media's 2006 release of the film in the Gojira/Godzilla: King of the Monsters on DVD has the restored English credits. The Criterion Collection Blu-Ray release contains all original logos and credits.
- Alternate versionsIn the original American version of the film, end credits and the Transworld logo were present. The 1998 DVD release from Simitar restores the logo without the end credits, while the 2006 DVD release from Classic Media restores the credits without the logo. Both were reinstated in the 2012 DVD and Blu-ray releases from the Criterion Collection.
- ConnectionsEdited from Godzilla (1954)
- SoundtracksPrayer for Peace
(uncredited)
Performed by students of the Toho High School of Music
Lyrics by Shigeru Kayama
Composed by Akira Ifukube
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Box office
- Budget
- $650,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 20 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1