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Rodan (1956)
Directed by Ishirō Honda
“Born from a volcanic crater, the crimson monster bird Rodan tramples the Earth”
Horror, Science Fiction · 1h 12m
Mining engineer Shigeru investigates the disappearance and death of his fellow coworkers when prehistoric nymphs are discovered emerging from the mines. After an attack on the local village, Shigeru heads deeper into the mines only to make a more horrifying discovery in the form a prehistoric flying creature. Soon a second monster appears as the two converge in Fukuoka.
Cast
Kenji Sahara
Shigeru Kawamura
Yumi Shirakawa
Kiyo
Akihiko Hirata
Professor Kyuichiro Kashiwagi
Minosuke Yamada
Mining Chief Osaki
Yoshibumi Tajima
Izeki
A
Akio Kobori
Police Chief Nishimura
M
Mitsuo Tsuda
Staff Officer Takeuchi
R
Ren Imaizumi
Sunagawa
J
Jun'ichirō Mukai
Military officer
Rinsaku Ogata
Goro
I
Ichirō Chiba
Chief of Police
T
Tsurue Ichimanji
Haru
Crew
- Director
- Ishirō Honda
- Screenplay
- Takeo Murata, Takeshi Kimura
- Director of Photography
- Isamu Ashida
- Original Music Composer
- Akira Ifukube
- Editor
- Kôichi Iwashita
- Producer
- Tomoyuki Tanaka
Details
- Original title
- 空の大怪獸 ラドン
- Release date
- 1956-12-26
- Runtime
- 1h 12m
- Genres
- Horror, Science Fiction
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese, Tagalog, Mandarin
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- TOHO, Far East Laboratory
- Box office
- $1,333,289