"Recent monster movies are full of images of big cities being destroyed. In the old monster movies, it was much scarier to have them land in ordinary fishing villages. It's much more frightening to have your house destroyed than a big city."

Filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Cure, Pulse, Cloud) saw the original Godzilla film as a young boy. When he visited Studio 9, he shared how the 1954 kaiju epic terrified and transformed him for life.