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1968 · Japan · 84m

Bleeding skies, a forehead-splitting alien, and an ending with no comfort in it whatsoever.

1963 · Japan · 89m

Honda's mushroom-people film. Far bleaker than anything else Toho made.

1965 · Japan · 79m

Daiei's cut-price answer to Godzilla. A flying turtle. Children loved it.

1966 · Japan · 88m

Two giant humanoid brothers, one good, one savage, tear up Japan. Weirdly beloved, and Brad Pitt's favourite.

1956 · Japan · 72m

Toho's first colour kaiju. A supersonic pterosaur levels a city with its wingblasts.

1961 · Japan · 101m

The most charming of Toho's roster, and openly anti-colonial about it.

1968 · Japan · 89m

Eleven monsters, no restraint. Honda cashing every chip at once.

1971 · Japan · 85m

The psychedelic pollution one. Godzilla fights a smog monster, and the film goes completely strange.

1964 · Japan · 92m

The film where Godzilla becomes a hero. Three of Toho's monsters team up against a golden space dragon.

1962 · Japan/USA · 97m

The most-watched Godzilla film in Japan, and essentially an ad-industry farce with two giant monsters.

1954 · Japan · 96m

Not a monster romp. A sober film about nuclear annihilation, made nine years after.