Rodan

Starring: Kenji Sawara, Yumi Shirakawa, Akihiko Hirata, et al.

A bug-eating pterodactyl flies out of a coal mine and wrecks Japan with sonic booms.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 074645462493
• Release Date: September 2002
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Publisher: Sony Wonder (Video)
• Director: Inoshiro Honda
• Starring: Kenji Sawara, Yumi Shirakawa, Akihiko Hirata, Akio Kobori, Yasuko Nakata, Minosuke Yamada, Yoshibumi Tajima, Kiyoharu Ohnaka
• Runtime: 1 hour, 12 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: color
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Sora no daikaijû Radon

The film starts like all the 50’s sci-fi with a narrative about the bomb and what it may do to the world. I originally saw this movie at an all-night J-a-p-a-n-e-s-e monster movie feast at a local drive-in. Ecology at its finest. Rodan has a pterodactyl feel. You cannot worm your way out of this one. I do not like to compare this to movies like “Mothra” (1962); however, the formula is similar. Yet, there has always been a fond place in my heart for this movie. Strangely, it is one of the last to be put on the market. The color is spectacular. Moreover, the appearance of the big bugs, in the beginning, sets the stage for the surprise that is to come later. We get to see the authorities harassing the big lobster-worms with an old WW11 heavy machine gun. Unlike the USA's bug movies, you can feel sorry for the creature. Since Tokyo is already destroyed, how about making it a game preserve?