Sony's releasing the original 98 minute Japanese version of "Godzilla"

[Human Torch]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FA4TLQ/ref=ase_dvdtalk/102-6561684-6610560?s=dvd&v=glance&n=130&tagActionCode=dvdtalk

This title will be released on September 5, 2006.



Amazon.com
The first of the Godzilla movies, and the most somber and serious in tone, Gojiro was originally a 98-minute Japanese horror film, until a U.S. company bought the rights and reissued the film at 79 minutes, replacing sequences involving a Japanese reporter with new inserts of a dour, pipe-smoking Raymond Burr. Both versions appear together for the first time in this release from Sony Wonder.

[buddhamama]

1. something to cheer about...WooHoo !!!

:bounce: i'll be sure to add this to my collection.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

2. I saw the original at a revival house in NYC a year or two ago

It's really, really good.

Much better than the Americanized version; great effects (for the time), powerful story.

[CBGLuthier]

3. Saw it too

And yes, it was very superior to the Burr version. Would be a good DVD to have.

[CBGLuthier]

4. Saw it too

And yes, it was very superior to the Burr version. Would be a good DVD to have.