Originally released in Japan simply as "Gojira" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re-titled "Godzilla 1985". Adding in new footage of Raymond Burr, this 16th Godzilla film ignores all previous sequels and serves as a direct follow-up to the 1956 "Godzilla King of the Monsters", ...
In the end, the monster's origins seemed the perfect metaphor. 3 After all, Godzilla wasn't even the monster's real name, but rather an anglicization of Gojira. His reemergence from the depths of the Pacific was tied to postwar American atomic interven- tion in the region. His celluloid...