Rodan (film)

Rodan
Theatrical release poster
Japanese name
Kanji	空の大怪獣 ラドン
Transcriptions Revised Hepburn Sora no Daikaijū Radon
Directed by	Ishirō Honda
Screenplay by	Takeshi Kimura Takeo Murata
Story by	Ken Kuronuma
Produced by	Tomoyuki Tanaka
Starring	Kenji Sahara Yumi Shirakawa
Cinematography	Isamu Ashida
Edited by	Kôichi Iwashita Robert S. Eisen
Music by	Akira Ifukube
Production company	Toho
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	December 26, 1956 (1956-12-26)
Running time	82 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Budget	$277,777 (production)[1] ¥200 million (overall)[2]
Box office	$397,000 (Japan)[3] >$1 million (U.S.)[1]

Rodan (Japanese: 空の大怪獣 ラドン, Hepburn: Sora no Daikaijū Radon, lit. 'Giant Monster of the Sky Radon') is a 1956 Japanese kaiju film directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. Produced and distributed by Toho Studios, it is the debut film of the titular monster Rodan, Toho's first kaiju film to be shot in color, and one of several giant monster films that found an audience outside Japan. Rodan would become a staple monster later crossing over into the Godzilla franchise. The film stars Kenji Sahara and Yumi Shirakawa.

Rodan premiered in Japan on December 26, 1956,^{[citation needed]} and was released in the United States in August 1957.^[1]