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Poster for Godzilla, King of the Monsters! Godzilla, a giant reptilian monster, stands amid city buildings, holding a train in its mouth and another in its hand, with smoke and destruction around its feet. Eiji Tsuburaya stands between actors in King Kong and Godzilla monster costumes on the set of King Kong vs. Godzilla, 1962, directing a scene.
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Poster for Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
Poster for Godzilla, King of the Monsters! Movie poster for Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956), which was the American edit of Honda Ishirō's Gojira (1954).

Honda Ishirō

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John M. Cunningham graduated from Kalamazoo College in 2000 with a B.A. in English. He worked at Britannica from 2004 to 2018. A student of pop culture and the arts, he wrote about popular (and semipopular)...
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Honda Ishirō (born May 7, 1911, Asahi [now part of Tsuruoka], Yamagata prefecture, Japan—died February 28, 1993, Tokyo) was a Japanese filmmaker who worked closely with director Kurosawa Akira but was perhaps best known for his leading role in Japan’s kaijū eiga (“monster movie”) craze of the 1950s and ’60s, mostly through his direction of Gojira (1954; Godzilla) and several of its sequels. Honda grew up in a small village, the youngest of five children...

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