5/12/2023 0 Comments Monsters born and madeThe original film, titled Gojira – a portmanteau of ‘gorilla’ and ‘whale’ ( kujira) – appeared amid the economic boom of Japan’s post-war period, at a time when H-bomb testing in the Pacific had created a climate of fear about radiation in Japan. Director Gareth Edwards hopes to change that with his Godzilla, released on 16 May, the 60th anniversary of the cherished monster’s debut from Tokyo’s Toho studios. There have been plenty of US remakes of Japanese classics – Seven Samurai became The Magnificent Seven, Ringu became The Ring – but Tinseltown has never quite cracked the tale of the giant, city-smashing lizard. In the manner of Godzilla himself, Hollywood is stomping into Japanese cinema once again.
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