"It was a Japanese production, produced for Japanese audiences. It was made for an audience that had only nine years prior experienced the end of the war and the surrender..."
"Unbeknownst to many people, Godzilla's international stardom actually began right here in Los Angeles," said Steve Ryfle, who co-authored a book about Godzilla.
"The monster flick, which many people saw as an allegory for the Atomic bomb, was a box office hit in the country, and would go on to become a global sensation."
"For five decades, pretty much the only way audiences in the U.S. and other parts of the Western world could see the film was through a highly altered version of the 1954 Japanese original."
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