<sod>'''''Godzilla, King of the Monsters!''''' is a 1956 Japanese-American [[science fiction]] [[kaiju]] film co-directed by [[Terry O. Morse]] and [[Ishirō Honda]]. The film is a heavily re-edited American adaptation, commonly referred to as an "Americanization",<ref>Ragone, August; Tucker, Guy (1991). "The Legend of Godzilla: Part 1". ''Markalite, the Magazine of Japanese Fantasy'' #3. Pacific Rim Publishing.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chroniclebooks.com/titles/eiji-tsuburaya-master-of-monsters-paperback.html/|title=Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of Monsters|last=Ragone|first=August|publisher=Chronicle Books|date=November 2007|pages=46–47.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.scifijapan.com/articles/2014/03/31/classic-media-reissues-the-original-godzilla-on-dvd/|title=Classic Media Reissues the Original GODZILLA on DVD|publisher=Scifi Japan|accessdate=September 1, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickhanlon/2014/05/14/godzilla-what-is-it-about-monsters/|title=Godzilla: What Is It About Monsters?|last=Hanlon|first=Patrick|work=Forbes|date=May 14, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/popcult/handouts/metaphor/godzilla/godzilla.html|title= The Monster That Morphed Into a Metaphor|last=Rafferty|first=Terrence|work=NY Times|date=May 2, 2004}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyvortex.org/GodzillaAmerica1.html|title=Godzilla in America|last=Roberto|first=John Rocco|work=G-fan Magazine Issue #10|date=July 1994}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.criterion.com/films/27755-godzilla|title=Godzilla (1954) - The Criterion Collection|publisher=Criterion|accessdate=September 1, 2014}}</ref> of the Japanese film ''[[Godzilla (1954 film)|Godzilla]]'', originally produced by [[Toho]] in 1954, which had previously been shown [[Subtitle (captioning)|subtitle]]d in the United States in Japanese community theaters only, and was not known in Europe.<eod>
<sod>'''''Godzilla, King of the Monsters!''''' is a 1956 Japanese-American [[science fiction]] [[kaiju]] [[horror film]] co-directed by [[Terry O. Morse]] and [[Ishirō Honda]]. The film is a heavily re-edited American adaptation, commonly referred to as an "Americanization",<ref>Ragone, August; Tucker, Guy (1991). "The Legend of Godzilla: Part 1". ''Markalite, the Magazine of Japanese Fantasy'' #3. Pacific Rim Publishing.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chroniclebooks.com/titles/eiji-tsuburaya-master-of-monsters-paperback.html/|title=Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of Monsters|last=Ragone|first=August|publisher=Chronicle Books|date=November 2007|pages=46–47.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.scifijapan.com/articles/2014/03/31/classic-media-reissues-the-original-godzilla-on-dvd/|title=Classic Media Reissues the Original GODZILLA on DVD|publisher=Scifi Japan|accessdate=September 1, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickhanlon/2014/05/14/godzilla-what-is-it-about-monsters/|title=Godzilla: What Is It About Monsters?|last=Hanlon|first=Patrick|work=Forbes|date=May 14, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/popcult/handouts/metaphor/godzilla/godzilla.html|title= The Monster That Morphed Into a Metaphor|last=Rafferty|first=Terrence|work=NY Times|date=May 2, 2004}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyvortex.org/GodzillaAmerica1.html|title=Godzilla in America|last=Roberto|first=John Rocco|work=G-fan Magazine Issue #10|date=July 1994}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.criterion.com/films/27755-godzilla|title=Godzilla (1954) - The Criterion Collection|publisher=Criterion|accessdate=September 1, 2014}}</ref> of the Japanese film ''[[Godzilla (1954 film)|Godzilla]]'', originally produced by [[Toho]] in 1954, which had previously been shown [[Subtitle (captioning)|subtitle]]d in the United States in Japanese community theaters only, and was not known in Europe.<eod>