“What is the Showa Era” you may ask? Well the Showa Era describes the time period from the 1929 to 1989 that saw the country of Japan under the reign of Emperor Hirohito. When it comes to kaiju ...

With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound, Godzilla (or Gojira, as his first movie was called in his native land) burst onto Japanese movie screens in 1954 as a frightening, melancholy metaphor ...

The Showa Era of Godzilla films (1954–1975) is one of the most fascinating and unpredictable periods in the franchise’s history. What began with the haunting and somber Godzilla (1954) quickly morphed ...

William Fischer is an author at Collider. Born and raised in Nebraska, he latched onto moviemaking at a young age and has been chasing it ever since. William holds a BFA in film from the University of ...