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Film Still Archive/Museum of Modern Art.
A scene from "Godzilla"
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The other genre spawned after WWII was the "Godzilla" series -- the atomic
blasts awakened a prehistoric monster (and he still hasn't gone to sleep; the
series continues today). Gojira, called Godzilla in the West, could be seen as
Japan's pulp-fantasy counterattack on the nation that bombed Hiroshima and
Nagasaki.
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