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- Rating: Not Rated
- Format: Blu-ray
- Release Date: 01/24/2012
- Label: The Criterion Collection
- Category: Classics, Criterion, Fantasy, Foreign, Science Fiction
Godzilla [1954] [Criterion] (BLU)
Ishiro Honda
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Synopsis
- New high-definition digital restoration with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Audio commentary by David Kalat (A Critical History and Filmography of Toho's Godzilla Series)
- New high-definition digital restoration of Godzilla, King of the Monsters, Terry Morse's 1956 reworking of the original, starring Raymond Burr
- Audio commentary for Godzilla, King of the Monsters by Kalat
- New interviews with actor Akira Takarada (Hideto Ogata), Godzilla performer Haruo Nakajima, and effects technicians Yoshio Irie and Eizo Kaimai
- Interview with legendary Godzilla score composer Akira Ifukube
- Featurette detailing Godzilla's photographic effects
- 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
- Theatrical trailers
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic J. Hoberman
Product Details
- Language: English, Japanese
- Subtitles: English
- Number of Discs: 1
- Rating: Not Rated
- Label: The Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 01/24/2012
- Run Time: 96 minutes
- Catalogue #: 2098
