listen)) is a Kaiju (Giant monster), first appearing in Ishirō Honda's 1954 film Godzilla.Since then, Godzilla has gone on to become a worldwide pop culture icon starring in 28 films produced by Toho Co., Ltd. The monster has appeared in numerous other media incarnations including video games, novels, comic books, and television series. A 1998 American remake was produced and a second American version is in development.
With the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Daigo Fukuryū Maru incident still fresh in the Japanese consciousness, Godzilla was conceived as a monster created by nuclear detonations and a metaphor for nuclear weapons in general.
Gojira (ゴジラ) is a portmanteau of the Japanese words: gorira (ゴリラ?, "gorilla"), and kujira (鯨（クジラ）?, "whale"), which is fitting because in one planning stage, Godzilla was described as "a cross between a gorilla and a whale",[5] alluding to his size, power and aquatic origin.
The Godzilla roar is the copyrighted[11] sound that Godzilla makes. What typifies the roar is that it sounds very mechanical and does not resemble any known animal’s sound.
Godzilla's signature weapon is his atomic breath. Godzilla's dorsal fins glow, and lets loose with a stream of radioactive fire from his jaws. The color of the ray corresponds to the glowing of the fins.
Godzilla is one of the most recognizable symbols of Japanese popular culture worldwide and remains an important facet of Japanese films, embodying the kaiju subset of the tokusatsu genre.
Tokusatsu (特撮) is a Japanese term that applies to any live-action film or television drama that usually features superheroes and makes considerable use of special effects (tokusatsu literally translates as "special filming" in Japanese).
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