Trailer & Poster For GODZILLA: THE JAPANESE ORIGINAL Re-Release

Trailer & Poster For GODZILLA: THE JAPANESE ORIGINAL Re-Release

There's a second trailer for Gareth Edwards' reboot right around the corner, but while we wait for that Rialto Pictures have released a new trailer for their 60th anniversary restoration of the original 1954 version of Godzilla. Take a look at that and a poster after the jump.

By MarkCassidy - Feb 19, 2014 12:02 PM EST
Filed Under: Horror
Source: Rialto Pictures





Here's the press release from Toho Films and Rialto Pictures:

A new restoration of GODZILLA: THE JAPANESE ORIGINAL, the monster classic that has spawned six decades of sequels, imitations, and remakes, will debut April 12 at the fifth TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood, followed by a national release beginning at New York’s Film Forum, April 18-24.

GODZILLA was originally released here in 1956 as Godzilla: King of the Monsters, an atrociously cut, dubbed and re-edited version that inserted American actor Raymond Burr into the action; only an hour was used of the original’s 98 minute running time. Burr does not appear in the original, uncut version, which has an all-Japanese cast including Kurosawa regular Takashi Shimura, who the very same year appeared as leader of the Seven Samurai.

As directed by Ishirô Honda, with special effects by the legendary Eiji Tsuburaya, GODZILLA: THE JAPANESE ORIGINAL is much darker in tone than the dumbed-down U.S. release version, which entirely eliminated the original’s underlying theme: in the Japanese version, the monster is clearly a metaphor for the nuclear menace and the film itself a cry for world peace and disarmament. The American version also cut out all of the original’s astonishing Strangelove-like black humor.

The original GODZILLA holds up as one of the greatest science fiction/monster films ever made, boasting still-impressive special effects, as the radiation-breathing prehistoric monster, awakened after millennia by Hydrogen Bomb testing – and impervious to repeated shelling by the Japanese army – wreaks destruction on Tokyo.

GODZILLA became Toho Studio’s #1 box office hit of 1954 (its #2 that year was Seven Samurai) and was so popular worldwide that the company has since produced nearly 30 sequels and remakes; a statue near Toho headquarters in Tokyo pays tribute to their most valuable property. In 1984, the prestigious film journal Kinema Junpo rated it among the top 20 Japanese films of all time. In 1989, a published survey of 370 Japanese movie critics, Nihon Eiga Besuto 150 (Best 150 Japanese Films), ranked Godzilla the 27th greatest Japanese feature ever made.

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NightWatcher
NightWatcher - 2/19/2014, 12:24 PM
"There will be a trailer Feb. 14"

They Lied to us all!!
MisterPL
MisterPL - 2/19/2014, 12:26 PM
Crappy poster. Where's Mondo when you need them?
TheRainbowSpartan
TheRainbowSpartan - 2/19/2014, 12:35 PM
PFTGFJFHRTHGTJGT he be dinosaur ragin' lazers leik doctor panof dotor zkcvjk yus
TheClemster
TheClemster - 2/19/2014, 12:41 PM
@ MrGlass

ahaha good one mate

I am pissed off I didn't think of this one
TheClemster
TheClemster - 2/19/2014, 12:44 PM
@ Godzillafart

lol

you have sensitive skin??? afraid of the sun???
TheClemster
TheClemster - 2/19/2014, 12:46 PM
Breaking News!!!!

Godzillafart is a perv

I hope that poor monster sues you

TheClemster
TheClemster - 2/19/2014, 12:54 PM
@ Mc gee

LMAO!!!!!!

amxt
amxt - 2/19/2014, 12:54 PM
I have the Criterion original Japanese version... is there any difference with this release?

TheClemster
TheClemster - 2/19/2014, 12:56 PM
@ mRgLASS

Last night I had a dream my wiener was half the size it should be an it was still a meter long!!!!!!

I guess we are both practical dreamers
TheClemster
TheClemster - 2/19/2014, 12:58 PM
@ GF

AHAHAH she is... lovely

So that was the honeymoon huuum???

TheClemster
TheClemster - 2/19/2014, 1:03 PM
@ MrGlass

*wink*

:)
TheClemster
TheClemster - 2/19/2014, 1:04 PM
@ GF

it seems that she is indeed

MisterHolmes
MisterHolmes - 2/19/2014, 1:05 PM
CANT WAIT!!!!
Kyos
Kyos - 2/19/2014, 1:08 PM
I really hope they're using a variation of that music in the 2014 Godzilla!!
TheClemster
TheClemster - 2/19/2014, 1:10 PM
@ MrGlass

who doesn't????
marvel72
marvel72 - 2/19/2014, 1:11 PM
i've got this on blu-ray,the criterion edition it feature both versions as well.
wookiefit
wookiefit - 2/19/2014, 1:25 PM
I had a copy of this poster in black and white on my wall as a kid. Loved it.
TheClemster
TheClemster - 2/19/2014, 1:38 PM
Gus, ...

you diva
drfate
drfate - 2/19/2014, 1:48 PM
yes, titties are awesome.
cipher
cipher - 2/19/2014, 1:52 PM
I'm a bigger slut than you, old man. My sluttiness is a superpower in itself.
TheClemster
TheClemster - 2/19/2014, 2:06 PM
Good grief Gusto

me like her

TheClemster
TheClemster - 2/19/2014, 2:07 PM
Merc????
MightyZeus
MightyZeus - 2/19/2014, 4:03 PM
I love those old Toho Godzilla films.

Just brings me a sense of Nostalgia watching that trailer.
FlixMentallo21
FlixMentallo21 - 2/19/2014, 6:23 PM
Oh man, that movie was great when I saw it in 2009. Forget the Raymond Burr-starring version, the uncut one was DEEP.
loki668
loki668 - 2/19/2014, 11:55 PM




Vaportrail
Vaportrail - 2/20/2014, 10:15 PM
A restored version will be nice, I've probably only seen bits of the American version.

It'd be kind of cool if after this they take it a step farther and colorize it. They are getting pretty good at that nowadays.
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