The Criterion Collection

Featuring: Akira Yamauchi, Hiroshi Ishikawa, Tomonori Yazaki, Katsuhiko Sasaki, Michael Keith, Yosuke Natsuki, Akira Takarada, Nick Adams, Harry Halcombe, Toshie Kimura, Tomoko Ai, Kazuya Aoyama, Minoru Chiaki, Yuriko Hishimi, Yukiko Kobayashi, Kumi Mizuno, Hiroyuki Kawase, Yuriko Hoshi, Akira Kubo, Yutaka Hayashi, Reiko Tajima, Minoru Takashima, Machiko Naka, Kyoko Ai, Beverly Maeda, Setsuko Wakayama, Momoko Kochi, Tadao Takashima, James Yagi, Hiroshi Koizumi, Tsugutoshi Komada, Tomoko Umeda, Takashi Shimura, Emi Ito, Toshio Shiba, Akiko Wakabayashi, Tadao Nakamaru, Kenji Sahara, Yukio Kasama, Yumi Ito, Barbara Lynn, Kazuo Suzuki, Keiko Mari, Toshiaki Nishizawa, Fuyuki Murakami, Masaaki Daimon, Robert Dunham, Sachio Sakai, Toru Watanabe, Akihiko Hirata, Toru Ibuki, Masao Shimizu, Kotaro Tomita, Yoshio Yoshida, Zan Fujita, Ichiro Arishima, Keiko Sawai, Hideyo Amamoto, Jun Tazaki, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Katsumasa Uchida, Goro Mutsumi, Chotaro Togin, Ulf Otsuki, Raymond Burr, Kenichiro Maruyama, Midori Uchiyama, Kunio Murai, Andrew Hughes, Susumu Okabe, Masao Imafuku, Haruo Suzuki, Hisaya Ito, Yoshibumi Tajima, Seishiro Kuno, Sonosuke Sawamura, Gen Shimizu, Gentaro Nakajima, Susumu Kurobe, Kenzo Tabu, Ikio Sawamura, Kanta Mori, Akira Tani
Year: 1954-1975
Time: 1295 total min.
Series: The Criterion Collection
Edition #: 1000
Release Date: October 29 2019
MSRP:
$224.95
Blu-ray
8 Discs | BD-50
1.37:1 ratio
2.35:1 ratio
English 1.0 PCM Mono
Japanese 1.0 PCM Mono
Subtitles: English
Region A
New high-definition digital restoration of Godzilla, King of the Monsters, Terry Morse’s 1956 reworking of the original
Japanese-release version of King Kong vs. Godzilla from 1962
Audio commentary for Godzilla and Godzilla, King of the Monsters by film historian David Kalat
International English-language dub tracks for Invasion of Astro-Monster, Son of Godzilla, Destroy All Monsters, Godzilla vs. Megalon, Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla, and Terror of Mechagodzilla
Directors Guild of Japan interview with director Ishiro Honda, conducted by director Yoshimitsu Banno in 1990
Featurette detailing Godzilla’s photographic effects, introduced by special effects director Koichi Kawakita and special effects photographer Motoyoshi Tomioka
Programs detailing the creation of Godzilla’s special effects and unused effects sequences from Toho releases including Destroy All Monsters
New interview with filmmaker Alex Cox about his admiration for the Showa-era Godzilla films
New interviews with actors Akira Takarada and Haruo Nakajima and special effects technicians Yoshio Irie and Eizo Kaimai
Interview with legendary Godzilla score composer Akira Ifukube
Interviews with actors Bin Furuya and Tsugutoshi Komada
New interview with Japanese-film critic Tadao Sato
The Unluckiest Dragon, an illustrated audio essay featuring historian Greg Pflugfelder describing the tragic fate of the fishing vessel Daigo Fukuryu Maru, a real-life event that inspired Godzilla
Trailers
A lavishly illustrated deluxe hardcover book featuring an essay by cinema historian Steve Ryfle, notes on the films by cinema historian Ed Godziszewski, and new illustrations by Arthur Adams, Sophie Campbell, Becky Cloonan, Jorge Coelho, Geof Darrow, Simon Gane, Robert Goodin, Benjamin Marra, Monarobot, Takashi Okazaki, Angela Rizza, Yuko Shimizu, Bill Sienkiewicz, Katsuya Terada, Ronald Wimberly, and Chris Wisnia