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Quick Links Showa Era Godzilla (1954) Godzilla Raids Again (1955) King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964) Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964) Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965) Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966) Son of Godzilla (1967) Destroy All Monsters (1968) All Monsters Attack (1969) Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971) Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972) Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973) Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974) Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975) Heisei Era The Return of Godzilla (1984) Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989) Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991) Godzilla vs. Mothra (1992) Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993) Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla (1994) Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995) TriStar Era Godzilla (1998) Millennuim Era Godzilla 2000: Millennium (1999) Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000) Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001) Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002) Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (2003) Godzilla: Final Wars (2004) Reiwa Era (Ongoing) Shin Godzilla (2016) Godzilla: Planet of Monsters (2017) Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle (2018) Godzilla: The Planet Eater (2018) Godzilla Minus One (2023) Monsterverse (Ongoing) Godzilla (2014) Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)

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A few years back, The Criterion Collection released the epic Godzilla: The Showa Era box set, collecting all fifteen Godzilla films of Japan’s Showa era together for the first time.

Starting today, Bloody Disgusting has learned, the 15-film Godzilla: The Showa-Era collection is available now on Vudu, Fandango’s premium on-demand video service!

The set includes Godzilla, Godzilla Raids Again, King Kong vs. Godzilla, Mothra vs. Godzilla, Ghidorah the Three Headed Monster, Invasion of Astro-Monster, Ebirah Horror of the Deep, Son of Godzilla, Destroy All Monsters, All Monsters Attack, Godzilla vs. Hedorah, Godzilla vs. Gigan, Godzilla vs. Megalon, Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla and Terror of Mechagodzilla.

You can digitally purchase or rent the individual films at the following links:

Godzilla Godzilla: King of the Monsters Godzilla Raids Again Ghidorah: The Three Headed Monster Mothra vs. Godzilla All Monsters Attack Invasion of Astro-Monster Terror of Mechagodzilla Son of Godzilla Destroy All Monsters!

U.S. audiences tend to accept Toho's earlier Godzilla movies as being high camp, usually thanks to Gen-x's half-remembered airings of late-'60s kaiju flicks broadcast on Uhf TV channels back in the 1980s. While there are some absurd and terrible Godzilla films from the Showa era (1954-1975), and many of them contained surreal, kitschy plot elements like invading aliens, one might also find several movies -- "Gojira," "Destroy All Monsters" -- that focus on Japanese national pride, the role of destructive weapons in the world, and a barely-simmering resentment lingering after a massive attack on the country. If modern superhero movies sprung from the U.S. subconscious as a fantastical revenge/preventative measure against 9/11, so too did Godzilla spring fully formed from the trauma left behind by the U.S.' atomic bomb attacks.

In the original "Gojira," that is literal. The titular creature, a stories-high amphibious animal,...

The Godzilla franchise has become as massive and dominating as its eponymous monster. 2023 marks the 1998 Godzilla film’s 25th anniversary, but the whole franchise has been around for 69 years and counting now. The Godzilla franchise helped bring the kaiju genre into mainstream media while also forming its own niche in the cinema industry.

Related: The 10 Best Godzilla Movies, Ranked According to IMDb

The many Godzilla film installments have become cult classics, especially for monster flick fans. However, not every film within the Godzilla franchise can rank the same. While some movies are as forgettable as Hedorah, others roar as loudly with success as Godzilla itself.

All Monsters Attack/Godzilla’s Revenge (1969)

Godzilla becomes a symbol of empowerment in All Monsters Attack. Dealing with bullying, young Ichiro escapes to Monster Island in his dreams. There, he finds solidarity with Minilla, and the two learn to stand up for themselves through Godzilla.

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Takarada Akira, best known as a star in the early “Godzilla” films and Toho’s other kaiju (monster) and sci-fi movies from the 1950s and 1960s, died on Monday. He was 87. The cause of death has not been announced.

Born in 1934 in Japan-occupied Korea, Takarada came with his family to Japan in 1948 as a speaker of Mandarin Chinese and English. In 1953 he entered the Toho studio after passing the studio’s “New Face” audition. He made an impression in a major role as a Navy diver in the original 1954 “Godzilla” and thereafter was cast in series follow-ups including “Mothra vs. Godzilla” (1964), “Invasion of Astro-Monster” (1965), and “Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster” (1966).

Takarada also appeared in films by Ozu Yasujiro and Naruse Miko as well as musical films, melodramas, period dramas and other mainstay studio genres.

After the collapse of Japan’s studio system in the 1970s Takarada’s appearances in films...

Don Kaye May 29, 2019

The “Queen of the Monsters” has been Godzilla’s staunchest ally over the years.

She’s been called the Queen of the Monsters, and she is perhaps the most beautiful and mystical of the classic Toho kaiju. While colleagues like Godzilla and Rodan have been ambivalent about their relationship with humanity over the years -- if not outright hostile on a number of occasions -- Mothra has almost always seen it as her duty to protect those little creatures running around on the surface of the Earth, even if they often did not accord her the proper respect and understanding. Her defense of the planet and its people continues in Godzilla: King of the Monsters, her first Hollywood movie.

Mothra made her debut in 1961, and alternated between appearing as either a giant larva/caterpillar or a massive moth. She is actually known as Mosura in Japan and...

Fans of monster movies, and cinema in general, have to say goodbye to an absolute legend today. Haruo Nakajima, the actor who portrayed Godzilla in the suit in the original 1954 classic, has passed away at the age of 88. The exact cause of the actor's death has not yet been revealed.

As reported by Bloody Disgusting, Haruo Nakajima died at the age of 88 but leaves behind an absolutely tremendous and unforgettable legacy. Long before CGI could create just about anything one can dream up on screen, monsters were portrayed by actors in elaborate suits and the humans inside those suits had to bring them to life. Haruo Nakajima was tasked with bringing Godzilla to life for the first time in 1954 and thus created the most famous movie monster of all time. Even though he spent all of his time on screen in a costume, it is a performance that will never be forgotten.

Having already given American Blu-ray releases to Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster, Godzilla vs. Hedorah, and Godzilla vs. Gigan, Kraken Releasing surprised everyone with the announcement that they’re bringing the highly sought after Eighties Godzilla flick The Return of Godzilla… Continue Reading →

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**Massive spoilers for every Godzilla movie, with the exception of the 2014 reboot, and Mothra follow**

August 6th and 9th, 1945 forever changed the course of history. When the first nuclear bombs were dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, World War II ended, but a new fear was born that dominated the thoughts of all men, women, and children for decades to come. The Cold War, atomic bomb testing, a cartoon turtle telling children to “duck and cover”, and this new technology that had the actual potential to literally end the world changed the perception of what was scary. Art reflects life, so cinema began to capitalize on these fears. Gone were the days of creepy castles, cobwebs, bats, vampires, werewolves, and the other iconic images that ruled genre cinema in film’s earliest decades. Science fiction was larger than ever and giant ants, giant octopi, terror from beyond the stars, and...

Jim Knipfel Jun 3, 2019

Sure Godzilla vs. Mothra is a giant monster movie, but it’s a giant monster movie about an enormous Moth.

The Toho universe has always operated under a different set of rules. Cities are flattened then rebuilt in days, but insurance premiums never go up. The existence of giant monsters, even those from outer space, is taken for granted, but drop a humanoid alien into the mix and it’s inevitably met with suspicion and doubt (“Are you really really Sure you’re an alien?”). Psychics and giant robots are commonplace, and the ever-hopeful self-defense force always rolls out the same array of weapons that’ve never worked in the past.

As the Godzilla franchise marched on through the ‘90s and into the early 21st century, it seemed to become more solidly grounded in a comprehensible and recognizable reality. Human characters were believable, even a little world weary,...

It has become something of a tradition in the world of Hollywood movie rebooting to feature little winks to the original versions by way of short central actor cameos. For some reason or another, the appearance of an older but familiar face within a franchise does tend give a project some credibility or at least a twinge of self-awareness. Thanks to this new set photo from the Vancouver shoot for "Godzilla," we can now know that director Gareth Edwards' upcoming "Godzilla" remake is following suit by including the original film's actor Akira Takarada.

Takarada starred as a diver named Hideto Ogata in the 1954 version, his first film, and then went on to appear in several "Godzilla" follow-ups — including 1956's sequel "Godzilla, King of the Monsters!," 1964's "Mothra vs. Godzilla," the 1966 film "Godzilla Versus the Sea Monster," 1977's "Godzilla" reboot and 2004's "Godzilla: Final Wars." So, it's pretty much not...