Investigating the loss of ships near Odo Island, Professor Yamane and his daughter Emiko is soon to discover the incredible truth; a giant monster the locals call Godzilla is destroying the island. Returning to Tokyo, Emiko meets her boyfriend Serizawa who has developed the ‘Oxygen Destroyer’, a potentially terrible weapon. When Godzilla threatens to destroy Tokyo and military forces cannot stop it, Emiko discloses Serizawa's secret to her lover Ogata. Now they must convince Serizawa to use the Oxygen Destroyer to kill Godzilla…. 

Takashi Shimura stars as the revered palaeontologist who uncovers the horrible secret at the heart of the monster (Godzilla is a long dormant Jurassic beast awoken by the atom bomb).

Godzilla_ (a.k.a. Gojira) is the roaring granddaddy of all monster movies. It’s also a remarkably humane and melancholy drama, made in Japan at a time when the country was reeling from nuclear attack and H-bomb testing in the Pacific. Its rampaging radioactive beast, the poignant embodiment of an entire population’s fears, became a beloved international icon of destruction, spawning almost thirty sequels.