Ishirō Honda's momentous 1954 monster film was born out of a national tragedy in Japan. It has a bleak message for humanity ...

"Godzilla Minus One" was already one of the best Godzilla movies, for the way it used the kaiju movie template to tell a ...

I started the day on the packed plaza outside of Tokyo International Film Festival headquarters, where people waited in line ...

Godzilla (1954) was a stark exercise in processing the trauma of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings, but its success ...

Godzilla: Minus One is available for streaming on Netflix in the U.S.

On Nov. 3, 1954 — also via Toho — Japan’s second gift arrived: Gojira, who would become Godzilla to the world. Don’t smirk. I’m here to take the nuclear-bomb-triggered mutant seriously.

In 1954, Japanese cinema made two enormous contributions to world culture. In April of that year, Akira Kurosawa’s "Seven ...

The iconic movie that Americans first saw was an altered version with added scenes shot at a Los Angeles studio.

Last year’s Japanese produced film Godzilla Minus One became one of the most successful in the franchise, even winning an ...

It's hard to imagine that former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il was also a film fanatic, but he was, eventually creating a ...