The Dawn of Kaiju Eiga

The origins of Godzilla!

Japan, 1954. A legend emerges from the ashes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, devastated by atomic bombs in 1945. The creature's name is Godzilla. The film that tells its story is the first of kaiju eiga, the giant monster movies.

Documentary History

Akira Takarada

(Self - Actor)

Haruo Nakajima

(Self - Suit Actor)

Kenpachirō Satsuma

(Self - Suit Actor)

Shusuke Kaneko

(Self - Filmmaker)

Akira Kubo

(Self - Actor)

Hiroshi Koizumi

(Self - Actor)

Kazuki Ōmori

(Self - Filmmaker)

Koichi Kawakita

(Self - Filmmaker)

Masaaki Tezuka

(Self - Filmmaker)

Yoshikazu Ishii

(Self - Filmmaker)

Alain Vézina

(Self - Filmmaker)

Daniel Aguilar

(Self - Filmmaker)

Eiichi Asada

(Self - SFX Director)

Teruyoshi Nakano

(Self - SFX Director)

Makoto Inoue

(Self - Musician)

Norihiro Katō

(Self - Book Critic)

Toshio Takahashi

(Self - Set Designer)

Tomoo Haraguchi

(Self - Filmmaker)

Shinji Higuchi

(Self - SFX Director)

José Luis Sanz

(Self - Paleontologist)

Carlos Aguilar

(Self - Film Critic)

Ángel Sala

(Self - SIFF Director)