Today marks a very special day for a timeless Japanese icon. On Nov. 3, 1954, the first Godzilla film was released in Japan.

Takashi Yamazaki: For me, Godzilla is a symbol of war and nuclear destruction ... It’s quite natural for us Japanese. Yamazaki: It is possible we are making something very domestic.

especially in the eyes of the Japanese people who had already witnessed a similar destruction. Godzilla was a symbol of thermonuclear weapons as well as a victim, an intentional directorial ...