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But the roots of the Tokyo-stomping creature are dark and terrible. Long before its 27 sequels and endless spinoffs, the primeval 1954 film, called Gojira in Japan, was a fearful atomic fable from trained filmmakers, a metaphor for the bombing of Hiroshima that ended World War II only nine years earlier.

On Tuesday, the highbrow Criterion Collection , which regularly traffics in the world of Hitchcock, Truffaut and Japan's Akira Kurosawa, will add digitally restored editions of Toho Studios' Gojira and the watered-down American portrayal from 1956, Godzilla: King of the Monsters with Raymond Burr , to its prestigious DVD and Blu-ray catalog.

"For viewers who grew up on the campy, nerd Godzilla movies that came later, this 1954 original is prosperous to seem like a shock," says film scholar David Kalat, architect of A Critical History and Filmography of Toho's Godzilla Series .

Source: USA TODAY

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