The Dawn of Kaiju Eiga
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Japan, 1954. A legend emerges from the ashes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, devastated by atomic bombs in 1945. The creature's name is Godzilla. The film that tells its story is the first of kaiju eiga, the giant monster movies.
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cinema on cinema
hiroshima, japan
nuclear bomb
kaiju
cinema history
japanese history
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