Gojira (Godzilla), the product of a nuclear test in the sea, is an embodiment of “kaku no kyofu” or “the horror of nuclear weapons.” Tetsuwan Atomu (Astro Boy), the robot that represents the best of ...

Back in 1954, just nine years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japanese filmmaker Ishirō Honda and special effects designer Eiji Tsuburaya dreamed up a giant dinosaur-like creature ...

A few days ago, New York Post columnist Karol Markowicz tweeted that she’d just started watching HBO’s Chernobyl and was “endlessly grateful that I got to be an American and not grow up in a backward ...

“Godzilla: Minus One’s” Takashi Yamazaki is the first feature director to be nominated for a visual effects Academy Award since Stanley Kubrick in 1969. That was for the medium-changing “2001: A Space ...

Author’s note: The significance of writing about a Japanese film series during a resurgence of racist violence toward Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders is not lost on this writer. To love Asian ...

Japan has a different relationship with nuclear devices/power than the rest of the world. It was in post-WWII Japan, post-atomic bomb Japan, that Godzilla was created, in no small part as a response ...

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Director Gareth Edwards (“Monsters”) has admirably returned to the Toho roots of “Godzilla” 60 years on and made the Kaiju myth as relevant as ever, even adding a humanistic twist. Drawing on the ...

Godzilla has been many things over the decades: a destroyer of cities, Earth’s greatest defender, an Avengers villain, and Charles Barkley’s basketball rival. But it all began with the atomic bomb.

It was 1954, nine years after the first atomic bombs were detonated — first on the testing grounds of New Mexico, then on Hiroshima and Nagasaki — that the fears of nuclear annihilation felt by the ...

Welcome to The Multiverse, a new column where'll you'll find Ars' explorations and meditations on the world of science fiction. The Multiverse covers things we love, the things we hate, and the things ...

Nine years after the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japanese moviegoers in 1954 wept when watching the original "Godzilla." The towering reptile that destroyed Tokyo was a symbol ...