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Rodan, released in Japan as Sora no Daikaijū Radon (空の大怪獣 ラドン, lit. "Radon, Giant Monster of the Sky"), is a 1956 kaiju film produced by Toho Studios. It was the studio's first Kaiju movie filmed in color (though Toho's first color tokusatsu film, Madame White Snake, was released earlier that year). It is one of a series of "giant monster" movies that found an audience outside Japan, especially in the United States, where it was originally released in 1957 as Rodan! The Flying Monster!. (It was re-released later in some drive-ins in the U.S. in 1959 on a double bill with Gigantis the Fire Monster.)
Original Release
12/26/1956
US Release
08/06/1957
Cast
Name | Character |
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Kenji Sahara | Shigeru Kawamura, colliery engineer / Shigeru Kawamura |
Yumi Shirakawa | Kiyo, Shigeru's lover / Kiyo |
Akihiko Hirata | Professor Kyuichiro Kashiwagi (biology) |
Akio Kobori | Police Chief Nishimura |
Yasuko Nakada | Female Honeymooner |
Minosuke Yamada | Colliery Chief Osaki / Mining Chief Osaki |
Yoshifumi Tajima | Izeki, reporter of Seibu Nippou / Izeki |
Kiyoharu Onaka | Male Honeymooner, Sunagawa's friend |
Ichirô Chiba | Chief of Police / Chief of police station |
Mike Danning | American Soldier Typing |
Directors
Writers
David Duncan, Takeshi Kimura, Ken Kuronuma, Takeo Murata
Cast
Name | Character |
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Kenji Sahara | Shigeru Kawamura, colliery engineer / Shigeru Kawamura |
Yumi Shirakawa | Kiyo, Shigeru's lover / Kiyo |
Akihiko Hirata | Professor Kyuichiro Kashiwagi (biology) |
Akio Kobori | Police Chief Nishimura |
Yasuko Nakada | Female Honeymooner |
Minosuke Yamada | Colliery Chief Osaki / Mining Chief Osaki |
Yoshifumi Tajima | Izeki, reporter of Seibu Nippou / Izeki |
Kiyoharu Onaka | Male Honeymooner, Sunagawa's friend |
Ichirô Chiba | Chief of Police / Chief of police station |
Mike Danning | American Soldier Typing |
Tsurue Ichimanji | Haru / Haru, Kiyo's neighbor |
Saburô Iketani | News Reader |
Saburô Kadowaki | Sunagawa's colleague |
Tateo Kawasaki | Tsunesan / Tsunesan, miner |
Kanta Kisaragi | Suteyan / Suteyan, miner |
Takuzô Kumagai | Policeman Tashiro |
Saeko Kuroiwa | Nurse |
Akio Kusama | Suda |
Tsuruko Mano | Osumi / Osumi, Kiyo's neighbor |
Mitsuo Matsumoto | Professor Isokawa |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Frank King | Producer |
Maurice King | Producer |
Tomoyuki Tanaka | Producer |