Saturday, May 3, 2014
Godzilla End Credits Released, Akira Takarada Still In Them
Ford Brody: AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON
Young Ford: CJ ADAMS
Dr. Ishiro Serizawa: KEN WATANABE
Joe Brody: BRYAN CRANSTON
Elle Brody: ELIZABETH OLSEN
Sam Brody: CARSON BOLDE
Vivienne Graham: SALLY HAWKINS
Sandra Brody: JULIETTE BINOCHE
Admiral William Stenz: DAVID STRATHAIRN
Captain Russell Hampton: RICHARD T. JONES
Sergeant Tre Morales: VICTOR RASUK
Lieutenant Commander Marcus Waltz: PATRICK SABONGUI
Jump Master: JARED KEESO
Bomb Tracker: LUC RODERIQUE
HALO Jumper JAMES PIZZINATO
PO#1 MartinezCATHERINE LOUGH HAGGQUIST
Boyd: ERIC KEENLEYSIDE
Mine Team Member: PRIMO ALLON
Lead Guerrilla Fighter: GEORGE ALLEN GUMAPAC JR.
Takashi: KEN YAMAMURA
Stan Walsh: GARRY CHALK
Hayato: HIRO KANAGAWA
Nervous: EngineerKEVAN OHTSJI
Team Member #1: KASEY MAZAK
Team Member #2: TERRY CHEN
Team Member #3: MAS MORIMOTO
Captain Freeman: JAMES D. DEVER
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Mom in Japanese Jail Waiting Room: YUKO KIYAMA
Dad in Japanese Jail Waiting Room: TAKESHI KUROKAWA
Goth Dressed Boy: JAMES YOSHIZAWA
Gruff Smuggler: JASON FURUKAWA
Whelan: BRIAN MARKINSON
Jainway: TY OLSSON
Huddleston: AL SAPIENZA
Fitzgerald: GARDINER MILLAR
Crow’s Nest Tech #2: KURT MAX RUNTE
Muto Crow’s Nest Tech #1: PETER SHINKODA
Muto Crow’s Nest Tech #2: BILL MARCHANT
Muto Crow’s Nest Tech #3: CHRISTIAN TESSIER
Muto Base Camp Guard: DERRICK YAMANAKA
Muto Crane Operator: PETER KAWASAKI
Muto Base Camp Security #1: JASON RIKI KOSUGE
Muto Base Camp Security #2: HIROYOSHI KAJIYAMA
Muto Base Camp Security #3: TETSURO SHIGEMATSU
Head Nurse: JILL TEED
National Guard #1: DEAN REDMAN
Military Analyst: TAYLOR NICHOLS
Thach: ANTHONY KONECHNY
PO #3: ELI GOREE
Akio: JAKE CUNANAN
Akio’s Mother: YUKI MORITA
Akio’s Father: WARREN TAKEUCHI
Survivor: CHUCK CHURCH
Missile Tech #1: DALIAS BLAKE
Missile Tech #2: LANE EDWARDS
Transport Vessel Soldier: TODD SCOTT
Young Girl on Beach: ZOE KRIVATSY
Father on Beach: SERGE M. KRIVATSY
Mother on Beach: LISE KRIVATSY
Pilot: JOSH COWDERY
Beret Leader: STEVEN M. MURDZIA
Airport Worker: KEO WOOLFORD
Older Woman at Beach Bar: LYNNE HALEVI
Older Man at Beach Bar: MARTIN KOGAN
FEMA Worker: SANDY RITZ
Lead Lightning Pilot: TOBY LEVINS
Army Soldier: ERIC BREKER
Ordinance Tech: JESSE REID
Evacuation Worker #1: AARON PEARL
Evacuation Worker #2: AMY FOX
Officer: RICH PAUL
Bus Driver: DEE JAY JACKSON
SFPD Cop: KYLE RIEFSNYDER
Golden Gate Navy Man on Deck: MICHAEL DENIS
SF School Bus Kid #1: MELODY B. CHOI
SF School Bus Kid #2: TAYA CLYNE
SF School Bus Kid #3: ERIKA FOREST
SF School Bus Kid #4: BEN HARRISON
SF School Bus Kid #5: GRAYSON MAXWELL GURNSEY
Praying Soldier: JUSTIN BLAYNE LOWERY
Government Spokesperson: MARCI T. HOUSE
Dispatch Officer: CHRIS SHIELDS
Airman: ZACH MARTIN
Civilian Analyst #1: DARREN DOLYNSKI
Civilian Analyst #2: P. LYNN JOHNSON
SF Ground Troop #3: LEIF HAVDALE
Airforce Loadmaster: ANTONIO ANAGARAN
Bucket Brigadier: KEVIN O’GRADY
Akio Photo Double: ZACHARY CHOE
Stunt Coordinators: JOHN STONEHAM, JR., JAKE MERVINE
2nd Unit Stunt Coordinator: LAYTON MORRISON
HALO Jump Stunt Coordinator: JT HOLMES
Godzilla 2014 World Wallpapers Being Revealed
It seems different sites in different countries are starting to post images (wallpapers) of Godzilla in different cities, so far we have Rome, Hong Kong, and Paris, all have the same feel as the San Francisco one, images below.
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Movie Monsters, Monster Movies And Why 'Godzilla' Endures
There have been hundreds of monster movies over the years, but only a handful of enduringly great movie monsters. Of those, only two were created for the screen: King Kong, the giant ape atop the Empire State Building, and his Japanese heir, Godzilla, the city-flattening sea monster who's a genuinely terrific pop icon. He not only stars in movies — Hollywood is bringing out a new Godzilla on May 16 — but he's even played basketball with Charles Barkley in a commercial for Nike.
It's been six decades since Godzilla first hit the screen, and to celebrate the big guy's birthday, Rialto Pictures is releasing Ishiro Honda's 1954 original — in a restored, 60th-anniversary edition — in theaters. I've seen Godzilla many times since I was a kid, but watching it again, I was struck that it might be the best single film about the terrors of the nuclear age.
I suspect you know the plot. It begins when American H-bomb tests in the Pacific disturb the watery environment that's the home of Gojira, as the monster is called in Japanese. After sinking assorted ships, this enormous beast winds up in Tokyo, where he stomps on buildings, flosses with power lines and blasts citizens with his radioactive bad breath. When the army is unable to stop him, the only hope is a new invention called the Oxygen Destroyer. But its idealistic creator is reluctant to reveal it for fear it will become a weapon — just look at the destruction that followed from splitting the atom.
Yet even as the inventor says this, the movie itself is offering us the seductive spectacle of violent ruin. And make no mistake: Destruction is great to look at. There's an amoral pleasure to be had in watching Godzilla reduce Tokyo to fiery rubble, rather like the beauty of seeing those napalmed palm trees flare like matches in Apocalypse Now or the illicit thrill of seeing the White House get obliterated in Independence Day — before Sept. 11, of course. Quite clearly, it's this joy in destruction that helped make Godzilla influential, especially in Hollywood, which over the past half-century has fed the worldwide audience's appetite for images of spectacular violence.
That said, Godzilla's real strength lies not in its effects — impressive for the time — but in its underlying emotional and cultural seriousness. It's not simply that the music is often doleful rather than exciting or that we see doomed children set off Geiger counters. The movie has a gravity that comes from being created in a Japan that knew what it was to have children die from radiation poisoning and to see its capital city in flames. Both drawn to and terrified of the monster's power, the movie is steeped in Japan's traumatic historical experience. It has weight. It means something.
Godzilla's resonance is also inseparable from something else that once defined the best monster movies — a sense of compassion for the monster. Boris Karloff's Frankenstein may have been scary, but we also felt his frailty and fear at being hunted. King Kong was dangerous, sure, but his eyes were charged with almost human feeling when he gazed at Fay Wray. The same is true of Godzilla, who starts out wreaking havoc but, by the film's end, takes on a melancholy, sad-faced grandeur.
These days, our pop culture doesn't encourage such identification. Ever since Jaws and Alien and Predator, whose creatures are ruthless murder machines, our monsters have increasingly become soulless things to be destroyed. Consider today's favorite monster, the zombie. Although zombies could hardly seem more human — heck, they just were human — the walking dead have no individuality and run in packs. They basically exist to have their heads shot off in movies and TV shows that resemble video games.
Godzilla is not remotely like this. In Jim Shepard's wonderful short story "Gojira, King of the Monsters" — part of his collection titled You Think That's Bad — Shepard offers a fictionalized account of the making of the movie. At one point, Shepard has director Ishiro Honda explain why the vanquishing of Godzilla feels so sad, and his words sum up brilliantly what gives Godzilla its strange power. "By the time the movie ends," Honda says, "[Godzilla] is like a hero whose departure we regret. It's like part of us leaving. That's what makes it so hard. The monster the child knows best is the monster he feels himself to be."
Countdown To Godzilla 2014: All Monsters Attack
The film was released theatrically in the United States in the winter of 1971 by Maron Films as Godzilla's Revenge, where it was paired up nationwide on a double bill with Island of the Burning Damned.
Ichiro Miki (Tomonori Yazaki) is a highly imaginative but lonely latchkey kid growing up in urban (and at that time, polluted) Tokyo. Every day he comes home to his family's empty apartment. His only friends are a toymaker named Shinpei Inami (Eisei Amamoto) and a young girl named Sachiko (Hidemi Ito). Every day after school, Ichiro is tormented by a gang of bullies led by a child named Sancho (Junichi Ito), whom Ichiro has nicknamed "Gabara." To escape his loneliness, Ichiro sleeps and dreams about visiting Monster Island. During his visit he witnesses Godzilla battle three Kamacuras and Ebirah, a giant sea monster. Ichiro is then chased by a rogue Kamacuras and falls into a deep cave, but luckily avoids being caught by Kamacuras. Shortly afterwards, Ichiro is rescued from the cave by Godzilla's Son, Minilla. Ichiro quickly learns that Minilla has bully problems too, as he is bullied by a monstrous ogre known as Gabara.
Ichiro is then awoken by Shinpei who informs him that his mother must work late, again. Down on his luck Ichiro goes out to play, but is then frightened by the bullies and finds and explores an abandoned factory. After finding some souvenirs (tubes, a headset, and a wallet with someone's license), Ichiro leaves the factory after hearing some sirens close by. After Ichiro leaves, two Bank Robbers (played by Sachio Sakai and Kazuo Suzuki) who were hiding out in the factory learn that Ichiro has found one of their drivers licenses and follow him in order to kidnap him.
Later, Ichiro dreams again and reunites with Minilla. Together they both watch as Godzilla fights Ebirah, Kumonga, and some invading Jets. Then in the middle of Godzilla's fights, Gabara appears and Minilla is forced to battle him, and after a short and one-sided battle Minilla runs away in fear. Godzilla returns to train Minilla how to fight and use his own atomic ray. However, Ichiro is woken up this time by the Bank Robbers and is taken hostage by them for taking their stuff and as a means of protection from the authorities.
Out of fear and being watched by the thieves, Ichiro calls for Minilla's help and falls asleep again where he witnesses Minilla being beaten up by Gabara again. Finally, Ichiro helps Minilla fight back at Gabara and eventually Minilla wins, catapulting the bully through the air by a seesaw-like log. Godzilla, who was in the area watching comes to congratulate his son for his victory, but is ambushed by a vengeful Gabara. Luckily after a short brawl, Godzilla beats down Gabara and sends the bully into retreat, never to bother Minilla again. Now from his experiences in his dreams, Ichiro learns how to face his fears and fight back, gaining the courage to outwit the thieves just in time for the police to arrive and arrest them. The next day, Ichiro stands up to Sancho and his gang and wins, regaining his pride and confidence in the process. He also gains their friendship when he plays a prank on a billboard painter.
The film was dubbed in English and released in North America on December 8, 1971 by Maron Films as Godzilla's Revenge on a double bill with Island of the Burning Damned. Maron Films later re-released the movie on a double bill with War of the Gargantuas.
There are some minor alterations between the Japanese version and the English dubbed version:
All Japanese-speaking dialogue is dubbed to English, by using English-speaking voice actors.
The Japanese version featured a vocal song over the opening credits (Kaiju no Māchi or March of the Monsters), sung by Risato Sasaki and the Tokyo Children's Choir, and issued on the Japanese label, Crown Records. While the English dubbed version features a jazzy instrumental entitled "Crime Fiction", composed by Ervin Jereb.
In the original Japanese version, Minilla was voiced by voice actresses, Midori Uchiyama and Michiko Hirai respectively. In the English dubbed version, Minilla is renamed "Minya", and he is given a cartoony male voice.
In the Japanese version, the two thieves' names were never mentioned in the film, but their names were shown on the credits. In the English dubbed version, the leader is given the name "Roy," but his partner's name is never mentioned in the film.
Tomonori Yazaki as Ichiro Miki
Kenji Sahara as Kenkichi "Tack" Miki
Eisei Amamoto as Shinpei Inami
Hidemi Ito as Sachiko
Junichi Ito as Sancho (Mitsukimi-bully)
Sachio Sakai as Bank Robber Senbayashi
Kazuo Suzuki as Bank Robber Okuda
Marchan the Dwarf (suit actor) as Minilla
Midori Uchiyama (voice)
Michiko Hirai (voice)
Haruo Nakajima as Godzilla
Yasuhiko Kakuko as Gabara
Yû Sekida (voice)
Yukiko Mori as Sachiko's Mother
Yoshiko Miyata as Landlady of the Inn
Box Office
In Japan, the film sold 1,480,000 tickets. This was over a million tickets less than the previous Godzilla film, Destroy All Monsters (and it was the first Godzilla film to sell less than 2 million tickets).
Classic Media
Released: Original Japanese version with English dubbed version as part of the Toho Master collection; originally supposed to be released in September 2007 but was made an "exclusive" to the Godzilla Toho Master Collection Box Set in November 2007, this and Terror of Mechagodzilla, it was released separately on April 29, 2008.
Region 1
Note: Part of the Toho Collection
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Released: May 6, 1998 (under the name Godzilla's Revenge)
Aspect Ratios: Widescreen (2.35:1) letterboxed; full frame (1.33:1)
Sound: English (Dolby Digital 1.0), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Supplements: Godzilla trailer collection; Godzilla video art gallery; trivia game; DVD-ROM (screen savers, printable art galleries)
All regions
Sony Wonder (Classic Media)
Release date: September 17, 2002
Aspect Ratio: Full frame (1.33:1)
Supplements: Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters video game preview
Trivia
All Monsters Attack is considered by many fans to be the worst official Godzilla film.
All Monsters Attack is similar to Gamera: Super Monster because both were made in the Showa era, have a large amount of stock footage, having a kid as the main protagonist, and are considered the worst in their respective series.
This is one of three films in which monsters speak. The other two are Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, but it was translated by the Shobijin, and Godzilla vs. Gigan.
In a number of promotional images both Anguirus and Gorosaurus are seen in occasion, even though they both made cameos. It's possible that they were originally supposed to have a bigger role within the film and possibly help Minilla against Gabara (as some of the images suggest).
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