Rodan (film)
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| Directed by | Ishirō Honda |
| Produced by | Tomoyuki Tanaka |
| Written by |
Ken Kuronuma (original story) Takeshi Kimura Takeo Murata |
| Starring |
Kenji Sahara Yumi Shirakawa |
| Music by | Akira Ifukube |
| Cinematography | Isamu Ashida |
| Edited by | Kôichi Iwashita Robert S. Eisen |
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| Distributed by | Toho |
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82 mins. |
| Country | Japan |
| Language |
Japanese English Mandarin Tagalog |
Rodan, released in Japan as Sora no Daikaijū Radon (空の大怪獣 ラドン?, lit. "Radon, Giant Monster of the Sky"), is a 1956 science fiction kaiju film produced by Toho Studios. It was the studio's first Kaiju movie filmed in color (though Toho's first color tokusatsu film, Madame White Snake, was released earlier that year). It is one of a series of "giant monster" movies that found an audience outside Japan, especially in the United States, where it was originally released in 1957 as Rodan! The Flying Monster!. (It was re-released later in some drive-ins in the U.S. in 1959 on a double bill with Gigantis the Fire Monster.)
In the small mining village of Kitamatsu, on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu, two miners have gone missing. The two men, Goro and Yoshi, had brawled earlier that day, and after they entered the mine to start their shift, the shaft had quickly flooded. Shigeru Kawamura (Kenji Sahara), a tunneling and safety engineer at the mine, heads below to investigate and makes a gruesome discovery: Yoshi's lacerated corpse. Above ground, a doctor examines Yoshi, and discovers the cause of death to be a series of deep gashes caused by an abnormally sharp object. Some of the miners and their families begin to discuss the possibility of the involvement of Goro, who is still unaccounted for, in the death. Shigeru is personally affected by this incident, since his fiancée Kiyo (Yumi Shirakawa) is also Goro's sister.
Two local miners and a policeman are stationed inside the mine, just before the waterline of the flooded shaft. Suddenly, they hear a splash in the flooded mine, and venture into the water to investigate. All three, however, are then attacked and slain by an unseen assailant. Soon after, the bodies of the three men are recovered and examined. The doctor announces that they, too, were killed by a sharp object that simply sliced them apart.
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