Rodan (film)

Rodan
Rodan
	Theatrical release poster
Japanese name
Kanji	空の大怪獣ラドン
Revised Hepburn
Transcriptions
Revised Hepburn	Sora no Daikaijū Radon
Directed by	Ishirō Honda
Screenplay by	Takeshi Kimura; Takeo Murata
Story by	Ken Kuronuma
Produced by	Tomoyuki Tanaka
Starring	Kenji Sahara; Yumi Shirakawa
Cinematography	Isamu Ashida
Edited by	Kôichi Iwashita; Robert S. Eisen
Music by	Akira Ifukube
Production; company	Toho
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	December 26, 1956;
Running time	82 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Budget	$277,777 (production); ¥200 million (overall)
Box office	$397,000 (Japan); >$1 million (U.S.)

Rodan (Japanese: 空の大怪獣ラドン, Hepburn: Sora no Daikaijū Rodan, lit. 'Giant Monster of the Sky Rodan') is a 1956 Japanese kaiju film directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. Produced and distributed by Toho Studios, it was Toho's first kaiju film to be shot in color, and is one of several giant monster films that found an audience outside Japan. The film stars Kenji Sahara and Yumi Shirakawa.

Rodan premiered in Japan on December 26, 1956,^{[citation needed]} and was released in the United States in September 1957.^[1]

^ ^a ^b ^c "Japanese Arters Wow Critics, but Horror Films Get Coin". Variety. April 15, 1959. p. 46.
^ Tanaka, Tomoyuki (1983). The Complete History of Toho Special Effects Movies (in Japanese). Toho Publishing. p. 124. ISBN 4-924609-00-5.
^ Ryfle, Steve; Godziszewski, Ed (2017). Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film. Wesleyan University Press. pp. 126, 128–129. ISBN 9780819577412.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[Variety-1] "Japanese Arters Wow Critics, but Horror Films Get Coin". Variety. April 15, 1959. p. 46.

[Tanaka-2] Tanaka, Tomoyuki (1983). The Complete History of Toho Special Effects Movies (in Japanese). Toho Publishing. p. 124. ISBN 4-924609-00-5.

[HondaBook-3] Ryfle, Steve; Godziszewski, Ed (2017). Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film. Wesleyan University Press. pp. 126, 128–129. ISBN 9780819577412.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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