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Released
1956 · FILM

Godzilla: King of the Monsters!

“Incredible, unstoppable titan of terror!”

Directed by
Ishiro Honda, Terry O Morse
Written by
Shigeru Kayama, Takeo Murata
Runtime
81 min
ActionHorrorSci-Fi

Synopsis

Foreign correspondent Steve Martin finds himself in Tokyo during a layover when he becomes entangled in the chaos caused by an unstoppable prehistoric monster known to the Japanese as Godzilla. The only potential solution for saving both Japan and the world is a secret weapon, though it risks being as destructive as the creature itself.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Terry O MorseScored by Akira IfukubeDesigned by Satoru Chuko

Box Office

1956 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 80× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$2.0M

Budget$25K
Worldwide gross$2.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Godzilla: King of the Monsters!de
  • Godzilla, rey de los monstruoses

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