The Original GODZILLA To Return to Theaters For 60th Anniversary

With the 60th anniversary quickly approaching, Rialto Pictures has announced they will be releasing a restored and uncut version of Honda Ishirô’s 1954 movie Godzilla. Rialto will debut Godzilla: The Japanese Original at the TCM Classic Film Festival on April 12th, with the film screening around America.

“The original GODZILLA holds up as one of the greatest science fiction/monster films ever made, boasting still-impressive special effects, as the radiation-breathing prehistoric monster, awakened after millennia by Hydrogen Bomb testing – and impervious to repeated shelling by the Japanese army – wreaks destruction on Tokyo.”

Way back in 1956, the original film was reedited and redubbed for American audiences, with Raymond Burr as the protagonist in the film titled Godzilla: King Of Monsters. Rialto promises that Godzilla: The Japanese Original will be the complete and uncut Japanese version. The film will be screening in the following cities across the US:

• April 18 – 24    NEW YORK,  NY    Film Forum
• April 25 – May 1    SANTA FE,  NM    Jean Cocteau Cinema
• May 2 – 5    PORTLAND,  OR    Hollywood Theatre
• May 2 – 8    SEATTLE,  WA    SIFF Cinema Uptown
• May 23 – 26    HOUSTON,  TX    The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
• May 28    LEXINGTON,  KY    Kentucky Theatre
• July 17    COLUMBUS,  OH    Wexner Center for the Arts

For more information, visit the Rialto Pictures website: https://www.rialtopictures.com/godzilla.html