Rodan (1956)

Description by Wikipedia Rodan is a 1956 Japanese kaiju film directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. Produced and distributed by Toho Studios, it is the debut film of the titular monster Rodan, Toho's first kaiju film to be shot in color, and one of several giant monster films that found an audience outside Japan. Rodan would become a staple monster later crossing over into the Godzilla franchise. The film stars Kenji Sahara and Yumi Shirakawa. Rodan premiered in Japan on December 26, 1956, and was released in the United States in August 1957. PlotIn the mining village of Kitamatsu, near the foothills of Mount Aso on Kyushu, miners Goro and Yoshi enter a mine to start their shift, before the shaft floods. Shigeru Kawamura, a tunneling and safety engineer there, later enters the mine and discovers Yoshi's lacerated corpse. Cast Kenji Sahara as Shigeru Kawamura, Mining Engineer Yumi Shirakawa as Kiyo, Goro's Sister Akihiko Hirata as Kyoichiro Kashiwagi, Doctor of Paleontology Akio Kobori as Nishimura, Police Detective Yasuko Nakata as Honeymooning Wife Minosuke Yamada as Oseki, Mining Chief Yoshifumi Tajima as Izeki, reporter of Seibu Nippou Kiyoharu Onaka as Honeymooning Husband, Sunagawa's friend Yasuhisa Tsutsumi as Imamura, F-86F Pilot Ichirô Chiba as Chief of Police Mike Daneen as U.S. Army Teletype Operator, Okinawa Tazue Ichimanji as Haru, Kiyo's neighbor Saburo Iketani as Radio News Anchor Saburô Kadowaki as Lab Technician, Seismic Research Institute Tateo Kawasaki as Tsune, Miner Kanta Kisaragi as Wasteman Haruo Nakajima as Rodan, Meganulon Katsumi Tezuka, Shoichi Hirose and Tokio Okawa as Meganulon