Ishiro Honda Archives

July 31, 2021 0 2020

Japanese kaiju film War of the Gargantuas opens in Japan in 1966. Technically, a sequel to the 1965 Japanese-American co-production...

July 8, 2021

July 7, 2021 0 1741

Frankenstein Conquers the World opens across the U.S. in 1966. Director Ishiro Honda gives the Frankenstein monster the kaiju treatment....

May 7, 2021 0 1793

Writer-director Ishiro Honda is born in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan in 1911. The father of kaiju movies, Honda either directed, or...

May 7, 2021 0 3069

A diamond-eating jellyfish-like alien invades Earth. A supersonically fast pterosaur is woken up by nuclear radiation. An apelike monster fights...

October 27, 2020 0 2524

Godzilla premieres in Nagoya, Japan in 1954. Directed by kaiju master Ishiro Honda. The first film in the longest-running franchise...

August 10, 2020 0 2428

Matango opens in Japan in 1963. Directed by kaiju master Ishiro Honda, the film also known as Attack of the...