The Criterion Collection

Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954–1975

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Directed by: Ishiro Honda, Motoyoshi Oda, Thomas Montgomery, Jun Fukuda, Yoshimitsu Banno
Featuring: Takashi Shimura, Hiroshi Koizumi, Michael Keith, Akira Takarada, Yosuke Natsuki, Tadao Takashima, Akira Kubo, Tomonori Yazaki, Akira Yamauchi, Hiroshi Ishikawa, Katsuhiko Sasaki, Masaaki Daimon, Akira Takarada, Minoru Chiaki, Harry Halcombe, Yuriko Hoshi, Hiroshi Koizumi, Nick Adams, Kumi Mizuno, Akira Kubo, Yukiko Kobayashi, Kenji Sahara, Toshie Kimura, Yuriko Hishimi, Hiroyuki Kawase, Kazuya Aoyama, Tomoko Ai, Momoko Kochi, Setsuko Wakayama, James Yagi, Emi Ito, Yuriko Hoshi, Kumi Mizuno, Chotaro Togin, Beverly Maeda, Kyoko Ai, Machiko Naka, Hiroyuki Kawase, Minoru Takashima, Yutaka Hayashi, Reiko Tajima, Akihiko Hirata, Akihiko Hirata, Takashi Shimura, Tadao Takashima, Yumi Ito, Akiko Wakabayashi, Jun Tazaki, Toru Ibuki, Kenji Sahara, Sachio Sakai, Toshio Shiba, Tomoko Umeda, Tsugutoshi Komada, Tadao Nakamaru, Fuyuki Murakami, Yukio Kasama, Kenji Sahara, Hiroshi Koizumi, Emi Ito, Akira Kubo, Toru Watanabe, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Kazuo Suzuki, Keiko Mari, Toshiaki Nishizawa, Robert Dunham, Barbara Lynn, Goro Mutsumi, Sachio Sakai, Masao Shimizu, Ichiro Arishima, Kenji Sahara, Yumi Ito, Keiko Sawai, Jun Tazaki, Hideyo Amamoto, Yoshio Yoshida, Zan Fujita, Kotaro Tomita, Hiroshi Koizumi, Katsumasa Uchida, Raymond Burr, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Yoshibumi Tajima, Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata, Kenichiro Maruyama, Andrew Hughes, Midori Uchiyama, Susumu Okabe, Kunio Murai, Ulf Otsuki, Masao Imafuku, Toru Ibuki, Sonosuke Sawamura, Jun Tazaki, Hisaya Ito, Yoshibumi Tajima, Seishiro Kuno, Chotaro Togin, Haruo Suzuki, Gen Shimizu, Gentaro Nakajima, Goro Mutsumi, Ikio Sawamura, Kenzo Tabu, Akihiko Hirata, Susumu Kurobe, Yoshibumi Tajima, Chotaro Togin, Kanta Mori, Masaaki Daimon, Akira Tani, Ikio Sawamura
Year: 1954-1975
Time: 1295 total min.
 
Series: The Criterion Collection
Edition #: 1000
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Release Date: Tuesday, 29 October 2019
MSRP: $224.95
 
Blu-ray
8 Discs
1.37:1
2.35:1
English PCM Mono 1.0
Japanese PCM Mono 1.0
Subtitles: English
Region A
 
 New high-definition digital restoration of Godzilla, King of the Monsters, Terry Morse’s 1956 reworking of the original   Audio commentary for Godzilla and Godzilla, King of the Monsters by film historian David Kalat   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   Featurette detailing Godzilla’s photographic effects, introduced by special effects director Koichi Kawakita and special effects photographer Motoyoshi Tomioka   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   Japanese-release version of King Kong vs. Godzilla from 1962   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   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   Interviews with actors Bin Furuya and Tsugutoshi Komada   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 
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