Godzilla first hit the screens in 1954. The iconic towering kaiju was created by Japanese film producer Tomoyuki Tanaka, director Ishirō Honda and special effects artist Eiji Tsuburaya. Tanaka wanted to create a monster that represented natures revenge on mankind for the horrors of nuclear war, to symbolize the abject terror that the Japanese people felt after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Although in some later films, Godzilla became the eponymous hero, saving humanity from a greater threat than himself… read more >
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