Our friends at Criterion Collection just announced a very special set for fans of the iconic radioactive lizard of destruction himself: Godzilla.
As the name implies, Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films 1954-1975 is a massive eight disk Blu-Ray set containing the fifteen Godzilla films that were released in that time frame. The following movies will be included in this set:
- Godzilla(1954)
- Godzilla Raids Again(1955)
King Kong VS Godzilla(1963)
Mothera VS Godzilla (1964) - Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster (1964)
- Invasion of Astro-Monster(1965)
- Ebirah, Horror of the Deep(1966)
- Son of Godzilla (1967)
- Destroy All Monsters (1968)
- All Monsters Attack (1969)
- Godzilla VS Hedorah(1971)
- Godzilla VS Gigan (1972
- Godzilla VS Megalon (1973)
Godzilla VS Mechagodzilla (1974)And finally:
Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)
This impressive collection can be yours for an MSRB of 224.95 with a release date of October 29, 2019. As of this writing, you can pre-order this directly off Criterion Collection’s website for a reduced price. For those interested, make the jump here.
The Criterion Collection has announced that they will be releasing all 15 Godzilla movies from the Showa Era this Fall in October. For people who don't know, The Criterion Collection is a film company that is normally focuses on licensing important classic and contemporary films such as movies from Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman, etc.
Source: https://twitter.com/Criterion/status...40404042997761
So that's spine 1000 (something something Klute). Great we're getting quality releases of all of these but (naturally) that price tag...
This will be the first time we will be getting the Japanese version of King Kong vs. Godzilla outside of Japan.
Awesome!
), and Hedorah). I might still grab this solely to have them all in a uniform collection!
I have most of the Showa era films in Japanese (I think the only ones I'm missing are Ebirah, King Kong (Which I don't even own a copy of in any language, I've just learned as of making this post
I don’t want to think about the price for this... Really cool though!
Neat!
This set may be getting a Region B release according to a e-mail on the Blu-Ray.com forums (Assuming if it is true)
The GODZILLA box set on Criterion.com consists of Region A Blu-Rays.
We are aiming to have a Region B version of the GODZILLA: THE SHOWA-ERA FILMS, 1954–1975 set released in November.
The best way to stay in the loop regarding UK Region B releases is via the following sites:
Amazon UK (http://amazon.co.uk/criterion)
ZOOM (https://www.zoom.co.uk/category/crit...ion_on_blu_ray)
Best,
Jon
you don't know how happy i am to be able to call All Monsters Attack a "criterion approved" movie
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