The government sends paleontologist Kyohei Yamane to lead an investigation on the island, where giant radioactive footprints and a Distraught by the devastation, Emiko tells Ogata about Serizawa's research, a weapon called the "Oxygen Destroyer", which disintegrates A navy ship takes Ogata and Serizawa to plant the device in Tokyo Bay. The site was launched in mid-December and only featured a piece of an American poster that filled up the screen and a trailer that can be toggled. Now they want to convince Serizawa to use the Oxygen Destroyer to stop Gojira.Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships explode and are sunk. After finding Godzilla, Serizawa unloads the device and cuts off his air support, taking the secret of the Oxygen Destroyer to his grave. Following the film's success in Japan, Toho sold the American rights to During its initial Japanese theatrical run, the film sold approximately Prior to the release of the film, skeptics predicted the film would flop.Others said that depicting a fire breathing organism was strange. Odo residents travel to Tokyo to demand disaster relief. These recordings ended up sounding like their animal counterparts and went unused.Tsuburaya originally wanted to use stop motion for the film's special effects but realized it would have taken seven years to complete based on the then-current staff and infrastructure at Toho.The buildings' framework were made of thin wooden boards reinforced with a mixture of plaster and white chalk.The typhoon waves were created by stagehands who overturned barrels of water into a water tank where the miniature Odo Island shoreline was built.On the first day of filming, Honda addressed a crew of 30 to read the script and leave the project if they did not feel convinced, wanting only to work with those who had confidence in him and the film.The most recent release of the soundtrack was in April 2010, by Classic Media. Godzilla-Movie.jp (映画『GODZILLA ゴジラ』公式サイト) is an official website created by Toho about Legendary Pictures' 2014 film Godzilla. This was our approach, without any reservations." In 1984, The film spawned a multimedia franchise consisting of 33 films in total, video games, books, comics, toys and other media.This article is about the 1954 film. The authorities soon head to Odo Island, close to where several of the ships were sunk. We wanted [the monster] to possess the terrifying characteristics of an atomic bomb. The villagers' and reporters' evidence describes damage consistent with something large crushing the village. After a protracted battle with the army, the monster destroys a major bridge before heading back to sea. Because the monster had no name, the first draft of the film was not called For Godzilla's roar, the recording artists initially used multiple roars from various large animals. He stated "The first film critics to appreciate As time went on, the film gained more respect in its home country. Godzilla nears the shore and the army opens fire with all the heavy weapons they can muster. "Producer Tomoyuki Tanaka flew to Jakarta to renegotiate with the Indonesian government but was unsuccessful and on the flight back to Japan, conceived the idea for a giant monster film inspired by the 1953 film During his flight, Tanaka wrote an outline with the working title Tsuburaya submitted an outline of his own, written three years before; it featured a giant octopus attacking ships in the Indian ocean.Takeo Murata and Honda co-wrote the screenplay in three weeks, confining themselves in a Japanese Inn in Tokyo's Shibuya ward.Godzilla was designed by Teizo Toshimitsu and Akira Watanabe under Eiji Tsuburaya's supervision.Toshimitsu and Watanabe decided to base Godzilla's design on dinosaurs and, by using dinosaur books and magazines as a reference, combined elements of a The Godzilla suit was constructed by Kanji Yagi, Koei Yagi, and Eizo Kaimai, who used thin bamboo sticks and wire to build a frame for the interior of the suit and added metal mesh and cushioning over it to bolster its structure and finally applied coats of latex.Godzilla's name was also a source of consternation for the filmmakers.