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The Godzilla film series is broken into several different eras reflecting a characteristic style and corresponding to the same eras used to classify all kaiju eiga (monster movies) in Japan. The first, second, and fourth eras refer to the Japanese emperor during production: the Shōwa era , the Heisei era , and the Reiwa era .
Godzilla (/ ɡ ɒ d ˈ z ɪ l ə / ɡod-ZIL-ə) [c] is a fictional monster, or kaiju, that debuted in the eponymous 1954 film, directed and co-written by Ishirō Honda. [2] The character has since become an international pop culture icon, appearing in various media: 33 Japanese films produced by Toho Co., Ltd., five American films, and numerous video games, novels, comic books, and television ...
Destroy All Monsters (Japanese: 怪獣総進撃, Hepburn: Kaijū Sō-shingeki, lit. ' Monster All-Out Attack ' ) is a 1968 Japanese epic kaiju film directed by Ishirō Honda , with special effects directed by Sadamasa Arikawa and supervised by Eiji Tsuburaya .
Destroy All Monsters: 1968 Japan Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah, Rodan, Anguirus, Kumonga, Minilla, Baragon, Varan, Gorosaurus, Manda [8] [74] [75] Detective Pikachu: 2019 United States Giant Torterras [76] [77] Dinosaur from the Deep: 1993 France Dinosaurs [78] Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness: 2022 United States Gargantos [79] [80 ...
[38] In 2021, the film was ranked at number 14 on Variety's list "All the Godzilla Movies Ranked" [39] In 2023, Collider ranked GMK as the best film in the series, listing it higher than the 1954 film and Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995). [40] That same year, Comic Book Resources listed it number 12 on their ranking of every film. [41]
This is a list of monster movies, about such creatures as extraterrestrial aliens, giant animals, Kaiju (the Japanese counterpart of giant animals, but they can also be machines and plants), mutants, supernatural creatures, or creatures from folklore, such as Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster.
Writer Max Borenstein stated that the Monsterverse did not begin as a franchise but as an American reboot of Godzilla.Borenstein credits Legendary Entertainment's founder and then CEO Thomas Tull as the one responsible for the Monsterverse, having acquired the rights to Godzilla and negotiated the complicated rights to King Kong.
The first Godzilla comic published in the United States was actually a small promotional comic. In the summer of 1976 (as part of the publicity promoting the upcoming U.S. release of the film Godzilla vs. Megalon), a small four-page comic book adaptation was published by Cinema Shares International Distribution Corp. and given away for free at movie theaters.