Tomoyuki Tanaka

Godzilla (1954)

Godzilla (1954)
Rating: ★★★★
Dec 16, 2001Giant Atomic Monster
The very first Godzilla film. Essentially a copy of The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, it has incredibly stark effect despite primitiveness effects. In it you can see Japanese nation struggling to expiate the pain of the Atomic Bomb.
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The Mysterians (1957)

The Mysterians (1957)
Rating: ★★½
Dec 14, 2002Japanese Alien Invader Film
Ishiro Honda and Toho, the creators of Godzila, turn their attentions to the alien invasion film - the first Japanese entry in the great 1950s SF alien invader fad - and deliver all the same colourful mass destruction we expect
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Varan the Unbelievable (1958)

Varan the Unbelievable (1958)
Rating: ★
Aug 2, 2013Japanese Monster Movie
Japanese monster movie from the same team that created the original Godzilla. The English-language version has simply kept the effects scenes and cut everything else, replacing it with scenes of the US military ordering the Japanese about
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Secret of the Telegian (1960)

Secret of the Telegian (1960)
Rating: ★★½
Apr 10, 2018Teleporting Super-Villain
Toho Films of the 1960s are best known for the Godzilla films and assorted monster bashes. This is one of their non-monster films, part of a spate of mutant supervillain films concerning a villain who has invented a teleportation machine and is using it to exact revenge
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War of the Gargantuas (1966)

War of the Gargantuas (1966)
Rating: ★★
May 20, 2015Japanese Monster Bash
From Ishiro Honda, the creator of Godzilla, this bizarrely features two giant Frankenstein monsters battling it out. A fairly typical Japanese monster movie of its era featuring cheesily ridiculous rubber monsters, copious mass destruction and a largely irrelevant human element
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Godzilla vs the Cosmic Monster (1974)

Godzilla vs the Cosmic Monster (1974)
Rating: ★
Apr 16, 1999Japanese Monster Bash
The fourteenth Godzilla film, noted for the introduction of Mecha-Godzilla, a robot copy of Godzilla that became a recurring nemesis in subsequent entries. By this point in the original series, the effects and quality of production had become very shabby
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Godzilla 1985 (1984)

Godzilla 1985 (1984)
Rating: ★★★½
Dec 13, 2002Giant Atomic Monster
Reboot of the Godzilla series that forgets about all the sequels and acts as a direct follow-up to the original film. This uses top drawer effects technology of the era to create Godzilla as the fearsome creation he originally was
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