Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956)

Steve Martin: I'm afraid my Japanese is a little rusty.

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Dr. Kyohei Yamane: They are so wrong. Godzilla should not be destroyed, he should be studied.

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[Opening voice over]
Steve Martin: This is Tokyo. Once a city of six million people. What has happened here was caused by a force which up until a few days ago was entirely beyond the scope of Man's imagination. Tokyo, a smoldering memorial to the unknown, an unknown which at this very moment still prevails and could at any time lash out with its terrible destruction anywhere else in the world. There were once many people here who could've told of what they saw... now there are only a few. My name is Steve Martin. I am a foreign correspondent for United World News. I was headed for an assignment in Cairo, when I stopped off in Tokyo for a social; but it turned out to be a visit to the living HELL of another world.

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Godzilla's roar did come from a contrabass, but the echoing sound came from playing the sound in an empty toilet tank and recording it.
Several months before this film received its editing job, the original Japanese version of Godzilla was shown on a limited release in the United States.
'Momoko Kochi', who played Emiko, reprised her role in Godzilla vs. Destroyah, her final film role.
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