And the simple title "Gojira" was changed to "Godzilla, King of the Monsters!" A horror movie that peered into the Japanese people's fear of radiation and the potential long-term effects of the ...
The Godzilla story is partly based on a March 1954 incident—just before the first movie was made—in which a Japanese fishing boat in the Pacific Ocean was exposed to radiation from a US ...
Takarada recalled that when he saw the preview of the movie, he cried at the sight of the dead Godzilla because he felt it was also a hibakusha due to its exposure to radiation from a hydrogen ...