Godzilla: King of the Monsters! (1956)
Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
Incredible, unstoppable titan of terror!
80 min
During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampage of an unstoppable prehistoric monster the Japanese call 'Godzilla'. The only hope for both Japan and the world lies on a secret weapon, which may prove more destructive than the monster itself.
- Release date
- April 27, 1956
- Country of origin
- Japan, United States
- Music
- Akira Ifukube
- Budget
- $25,000
- Box office
- $2,000,000
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Trailer
Cast
- Raymond Burr as Steve Martin
- Takashi Shimura as Dr. Yamane
- Momoko Kôchi as Emiko
- Akira Takarada as Ogata
- Akihiko Hirata as Dr. Serizawa
- Sachio Sakai as Hagiwara
- Fuyuki Murakami as Dr. Tabata
- Ren Yamamoto as Seiji
- Toyoaki Suzuki as Shinkichi
- Tadashi Okabe as Dr. Tabata's Assistant
- Toranosuke Ogawa as President of Company
- Frank Iwanaga as Security Officer Tomo Iwanaga
- James Hong as Ogata / Dr. Serizawa / Hagiwara / misc. characters (voices) (uncredited)
- Mikel Conrad as George Lawrence (uncredited)
- Paul Frees as Unidentified Character (voice) (uncredited)
- Hiroshi Hayashi as Chairman of Diet Committee (uncredited)
- Ren Imaizumi as Radio Operator (uncredited)
- Kokuten Kōdō as The Old Fisherman (uncredited)
- Takeo Oikawa as Chief of Emergency Headquarters (uncredited)
- Tsuruko Mano as The Boy's Mother (uncredited)
- Kenji Sahara as Man on Boat (uncredited)
- Kin Sugai as Ozawa-san (uncredited)
- Lee Miller as Man in Line at Airport (uncredited)
- Haruo Nakajima as Godzilla (uncredited)
- Katsumi Tezuka as Godzilla (uncredited)
Crew
- Ishirō Honda · Director
- Terry O. Morse · Director
- Shigeru Kayama · Writer
- Takeo Murata · Writer
- Ishirō Honda · Writer
- Tomoyuki Tanaka · Writer
- Tomoyuki Tanaka · Producer
- Akira Ifukube · Composer
- Terry O. Morse · Editor
- Satoru Chûko · Production designer