A 400-foot (122-meter) dinosaur-like beast, awoken from undersea hibernation off the Japanese coast by atomic-bomb testing, attacks Tokyo.
Godzilla, King of the Monsters! is a 1956 Japanese-American kaiju film, produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka, co-directed by Terry O. Morse and Ishirō Honda, that stars Raymond Burr. The film is a heavily re-edited American adaptation, commonly referred to as an "Americanization", of the 1954 Japanese film Godzilla. In the United States, the original film had previously been shown subtitled in Japanese community theaters only, and was not known in Europe. This version introduced other audiences outside Japan to the character and labeled Godzilla as the "King of the Monsters". In Japan, the film was released as Monster King Godzilla (Kaiju Ō Gojira).