Ishiro Honda's «Godzilla», about an ancient sea kaiju awakened by the atomic bombings of World War II, changed the history of ...

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Many of the integral figures that were involved in the beginning were gone — director Ishiro Honda hadn’t helmed any of the ‘70s efforts, suit actor Haruo Nakajima had been laid off ...

Directed by Ishiro Honda, the kaiju classic was made as a response to the tragedy of the atomic bomb that Japan faced in World War II scarcely a decade earlier. The wounds were still fresh for the ...

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