Review: Ishiro Honda's original "Godzilla" powerfully endures, 60 years later
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To put the achievement of Ishiro Honda’s original 1954 Godzilla in perspective, one must consider the horrors from which it was born. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki occurred only nine years prior to the film’s creation, and even with such a relatively small amount of historical hindsight, Honda and company were able to create a movie tha…
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