Directed by Ishirô Honda Written by Takeo Murata   Ishirô Honda   Shigeru Kayama   Cast Akira Takarada ... Hideto Ogata Momoko Kôchi ... Emiko Yamane Akihiko Hirata ... Dr. Daisuke Serizawa Takashi Shimura ... Dr. Kyohei Yamane Fuyuki Murakami ... Professor Tanabe Sachio Sakai ... Newspaper Reporter Hagiwara Toranosuke Ogawa ... President of Company Ren Yamamoto ... Masaji Sieji Hiroshi Hayashi ... Chairman of Diet Committee Seijirô Onda ... Parliamentarian Oyama Tsuruko Mano ... Mrs. Sieji Takeo Oikawa ... Chief of Emergency Headquarters Toyoaki Suzuki ... Shinkichi Sieji Kokuten Kôdô ... The Old Fisherman (as Kuninori Kôdô) Tadashi Okabe ... Prof. Tanabe's Assistant Kin Sugai ... Ozawa-san Ren Imaizumi ... Radio Operator Junpei Natsuki ... Power Substation Engineer Katsumi Tezuka ... Gojira / Hagiwara's Editor Haruo Nakajima ... Gojira / Power Station Worker Yasuhisa Tsutsumi ... Soldier Jiro Suzuki ... Gojira Saburô Iketani ... News Reporter Shizuko Azuma ... Partygoer Shizuko Higashi ... Angry Woman at Diet Kiyoshi Kamata ... Partygoer's Escort Kenji Sahara ... Young Lover on the sound Keiji Sakakida ... Mayor Inada Tamae Sengo ... Mother Ryosaku Takasugi ... Gojira Uncredited Cast Ishirô Honda ... Power Station Worker (The Hand that Throws the Switch) Produced by Iwao Mori   Tomoyuki Tanaka   Original Music by Akira Ifukube

Additional Info Premiere: November 03, 1954 Theatrical Release: April 27, 1956 DVD Release: September 05, 2006 Blu-ray Release: September 22, 2009 Country: Distributor: The Criterion Collection Websites: Alternate Titles Gojira Production Companies Toho Film (Eiga) Co. Ltd. Distributors Vestron Video   (1983) (USA) (VHS) Zontarian Video   (1996) (USA) (VHS) Rialto Pictures   (2004) (USA) (theatrical) Classic Media   (2006) (USA) (DVD) Sony BMG Music Entertainment   (2006) (USA) (DVD) Sony Wonder   (2006) (USA) (DVD) Classic Media   (2009) (USA) (Blu-ray) (DVD) Genius Entertainment   (2009) (USA) (Blu-ray) (DVD) Genius Products   (2009) (USA) (Blu-ray) (DVD) The Criterion Collection   (2012) (USA) (DVD) The Criterion Collection   (2012) (USA) (Blu-ray) (DVD) Rating Stats Overall Rating 7.4 / 10 Our Rating 7.3 / 10 Your Friends -- / 10 Male Users 7.1 / 10 Female Users -- / 10 Site Ranking #2,713 / 20,886 Ratings Breakdown Perfect 5 total ratings Almost Perfect 4 total ratings Average 1 total rating Site Ranking #2,709 Private Parts (1997) #2,710 Holmes & Watson (2018) #2,711 The Lawnmower Man (1992) #2,712 Nosferatu The Vampyre (1979) #2,713 Godzilla (1954) #2,714 The Eyes Of Tammy Faye (2021) #2,715 13 Sins (2014) #2,716 The Fog (2005) #2,717 The Muppet Movie (1979)