The original Godzilla is still Japan’s most important film!

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Godzilla (Gojira)is a 1954 Japanese epic kaiju film directed and co-written by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. Produced and distributed by Toho Co., Ltd., it is the first film in the Godzilla franchise. The film stars Akira Takarada, Momoko Kōchi, Akihiko Hirata, and Takashi Shimura, with Haruo Nakajima and Katsumi Tezuka as Godzilla. In the film, Japan's authorities deal with the sudden appearance of a giant monster, whose attacks trigger fears of nuclear holocaust in post-war Japan.
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@MeifuMetal478 8 месяцев назад

Rewatched it on Tubi recently, my god the hospital scene is still haunting decades later...

@bushidoblues9302 8 месяцев назад

Yeah that scene always surprises me how bleak it is!

@IaMaPh1991 7 месяцев назад

For me, the moment with the mother and her crying children, comforting them with empty promises of "we will be with Daddy soon" as Gojira destroys everything around them just punches me in the gut every single time.

@bushidoblues9302 7 месяцев назад

@@IaMaPh1991 what was she referring to? The US version cut that scene because they thought it was referring to the war.

@MeifuMetal478 7 месяцев назад

Definitely, the implication that none of them are going to survive still gives me chills.

@atogon_art 8 месяцев назад

The original film is truly a piece of art. Thought-provoking, haunting and evocative. I watch it every 3rd of November and it always gets better for me. Honesty one of my favourite films of all time.

@chrisberatis2612 8 месяцев назад

Indeed the original Godzilla from 1954 is a masterpiece.

@gordenscottfan3107 7 месяцев назад

The Japanese version way better than the touched-up Raymond Burr version.

@MagnitudeReviews 8 месяцев назад

I do believe the 1954 film is the best Godzilla film. But goddamn is Minus One fucking phenomenal as well.

@shaggybreeks 7 месяцев назад

I have not seen the original (even though I'm actually older than the movie itself!) but I have seen Minus One, and I never expected such a deep story. It's a period that I'm very curious about, and this is about the only movie that seems to depict the "monster" that Japan was having to deal with. It's an amazing allegory.

@jameskerr8091 8 месяцев назад

A very good and thoughtful review. It is tough for me to say which I like better. They are both really good.

@danthsmith 8 месяцев назад

Lovers of stop motion (me included) have often overlooked the amazing beauty and craft of suit acting and models. Its always worth remembering they had one shot or had to rebuild the whole set which were often incredibly fragile in order to crumble properly

@bushidoblues9302 8 месяцев назад

With the amount of Godzilla films that there was, it seems tedious all the miniatures they had to build each time.

@danthsmith 8 месяцев назад

There are noticeably fewer city destruction scenes in later films of the Showa. ONe of the reasons why the 90s Gamera films are so terrific

@josephpetrick4520 8 месяцев назад

I'll never forget when I first saw Gojira 1954. I had been watching Godzilla since I was 3, Destroy All Monsters, Mothra vs Godzilla, all fun! But then when I was 10, I watched Gojira; needless to say I'm 26 now, and I still tear up watching to horror of nuclear war that Honda, Tanaka, Tsubaraya, Sekizawa and all the others were trying to convey. But recently with Minus One and Oppenheimer, it makes me wonder: Did Oppenheimer and any of his colleagues ever watch Godzilla, or any radioactive monster movie for that matter, and if not, why, and if so, what did they think?

@AlfonsoTheTraitor 8 месяцев назад

Wait a minute you never collected a bunch of small boxes painted them up to look like buildings and then go on a rampage of destruction? I’m sorry you must of had a sad childhood . Because I did that a lot 😉

@bushidoblues9302 8 месяцев назад

Lol!

@rickprice893 6 месяцев назад

I live vicariously thrur Godzilla. LMAO......😊

@JapanMediaTour 8 месяцев назад

Absolute masterpiece. Thanks for showing this film the respect it deserves

@raysure1345 8 месяцев назад

Just because it deserves respect doesn’t mean it’s the best

@Darkgeran7 8 месяцев назад

I guess my short patience was worth it

@bushidoblues9302 8 месяцев назад

Hope you enjoyed it!

@bushidoblues9302 8 месяцев назад

Lol

@Darkgeran7 8 месяцев назад

@@bushidoblues9302 of course always have

@cyaNshibuya3112 8 месяцев назад

👍🏻👍🏻

@jtilton5 8 месяцев назад

Excelent review as always. One thing I always wondered is in the US version of the film, it seems like Raymond Burr is doing an Orson Wells impression. Maybe it was an actors choice, or it just came out that way and I'm reading too much into it.

@bushidoblues9302 8 месяцев назад

Yeah I can definitely see that!

@jtilton5 8 месяцев назад

@@bushidoblues9302It makes me wonder if they originally wanted Wells for the part and either he wasn't interested or wanted too much money.

@Zquicky7 8 месяцев назад

Bro the scene of the mother and her children is just pure sadness

@bushidoblues9302 8 месяцев назад

Haunting! That scene was actually cut in the American version.

@maattthhhh 4 месяца назад

Interesting. When I was a kid and saw Godzilla 1998 (the American version), I actually told my dad that I felt sorry for Godzilla. And he just gave me this puzzled look 😅

@nathanielschwartz425 6 месяцев назад

4:40 Actually, it was exactly 8 months and 2 days after The Lucly Dragon No. 5 was hit. Not “slightly over a month.” The Lucky Dragon No. 5 was hit in the early hours of the morning on March 1st, 1954 while the first Godzilla films official release date in Japan was November 3rd, 1954.

@kamenriderkfp6684 8 месяцев назад

I'd heard it said before that people don't want the original Gojira anymore when criticizing modern Godzilla films for being action over substance. I think the success and universal praise of Minus One has soundly proven that wrong Sure people laugh at the effects work of Gojira from a modern lense, but the effects work of the film isn't the point. It's the effect the film has on the viewer that is. And that is why the original Godzilla has stood the test of time Godzilla doesn't just reference the destruction and devastation inflicted on Japan and it's people by the bombs. It takes you to that time and shows you it front and center Something similar was tried in the movie Cloverfield which drew heavily on the tragedy of 9/11. However that film utterly fails due to one critical factor Cloverfield sought to entertain it's audiences. Gojira meant to horrify them

@bushidoblues9302 8 месяцев назад

Very well said!

@TheCorpsehatch 8 месяцев назад

I cannot imagine survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and anyone from the fishing boat who saw the Castle Bravo test watching the original 1954 Gojira in the theater. I tried recommending Godzilla Minus One to someone and they said they weren't interested. Probably because of the long period of goofy Godzilla movies made for kids.

@bushidoblues9302 8 месяцев назад

People must have been terrified watching this. People were already on edge and afraid of atomic weapons. Yeah I don't think people actually know how good the new Godzilla is.

@chrismiller8622 8 месяцев назад

The original is a masterpiece but I just watched Minus one minus color and it hits sooooo much harder than the color version. They are both MASTERPIECES!!

@glenandmelscholz3913 4 месяца назад

the original is the best

@ElbertTreble 8 месяцев назад

Oppenheimer is the prequal to Godzilla!!

@bushidoblues9302 8 месяцев назад

Haha it definitely fits in the timeline!

@raysure1345 8 месяцев назад

Hahahaha that’s so cool

@NeverHoldBackReviews 7 месяцев назад

Completely agree. Great video

@bushidoblues9302 7 месяцев назад

Thank you!

@rickprice893 6 месяцев назад

This movie reminds me of my mom, kind of like a fine wine. The the older they became, The More I was able to appreciate them Love you Buddy......ps broken horn says hi....😊

@charlie-obrien 8 месяцев назад

Gojira 1954 is very frightening. When I was a kid I was scared of the monster itself. But now as an adult I am afraid of the very real elements that could, in this story create that monster. Except that outside of the story they are all too real and prevalent in our world and we live with that "monster" every day. One small side note that is often overlooked, is that in Godzilla's original and current design, his skin is not that of a dinosaur or the scales of a reptile. His skin is burnt, chaffed and mottled like the victims of the blasts and radiation from the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (you can see by some of the real photos you showed) and this was a very intentional decision by the creators of Godzilla. To me it has always made him much scarier and oddly realistic than say a giant spider or ape.

@aaronfletcher8745 8 месяцев назад

This was the first non-English language film that I ever watched. I was 8 at the time. For the longest time, my foreign film experience was just Godzilla, Gamera, and an occasional Ghibli film. Over the past five or six months, however, most of the movies I've watched have been non-English. I owe my passion for film largely to Godzilla. It's my go-to recommendation for people who are looking to get into world cinema.

@Rem1Gnova 8 месяцев назад

I can't imagine how powerful this movie must have been to Japanese audiences when it came out

@jbbyaboo1105 8 месяцев назад

"Goofy" doesn't have to mean "bad."

@bushidoblues9302 8 месяцев назад

True!

@raysure1345 8 месяцев назад

But sadly it means bad writing and I have been waiting for a serious movie that mimicked the 1954 movie. Legentried to make it serious and then they ultimately gave up and said “Let Them Fight”

@nemosidebiz 8 месяцев назад

I'm Japanese, and I have a question for you, if you don't mind answering. You've liked Godzilla since your childhood and you also like samurai movies. They are both from Japan, but are they somehow related in yourself?

@bushidoblues9302 8 месяцев назад

I was raised on Godzilla, so I always had this love for Japan and its cinema ingrained in me. But now that I think about it, Godzilla represents a ronin. A warrior without a home or master, born out of war.

@nemosidebiz 8 месяцев назад

@@bushidoblues9302 Thank you for answering! Wow, Godzilla represents a ronin for you. I think I somehow understand why you like both of them. They are both free, independent, strong, but lonely.

@bushidoblues9302 8 месяцев назад

@nemosidebiz Sanjuro is a great representation of Godzilla. In Yojimbo, he's on noones side, and he causes a great calamity to that town, but he represents the needed balance, and Godzilla is that same balance. Godzilla only comes because of a new weapon that's capable of mass destruction. Godzilla also comes when other Kaiju monsters threaten. So, in a way, Godzilla is like Sanjuro and both of them fight for balance.

@danthsmith 8 месяцев назад

Amazing to think that it was made the same year and studio as Seven Samurai. Takashi Shimura is in both.

@bushidoblues9302 8 месяцев назад

That was one hell of a year!

@kamenriderkfp6684 8 месяцев назад

@@bushidoblues9302 Doing both Seven Samurai and Gojira in that same year was a huge gamble that almost bankrupted the studio actually. That gamble paying off and paving the way to the big name that Toho would become is why both films have murals at the studio

@KK-of6hj 8 месяцев назад

Godzilla is a monster born from a hydrogen bomb test. Hydrogen bomb tests were not used to defeat Godzilla. Godzilla is a symbol of anti-nuclear and anti-war sentiments, and is a disaster-level monster that spreads senseless violence. I like the Monsterverse, but let me just say this. From Japan.

@raysure1345 8 месяцев назад

I respect that