It is the one Godzilla movie, each movie can look back to as a true starting point, wherever you start in the Godzilla franchise, the year 1954 will always be mentioned. And no one would think that sixty years later, we'd still be celebrating this film, and showing it worldwide in theaters. The raw emotions of this film are easily seen as is the anti nuke message. This film rose amongst harsh criticism, and was successful in one of Japan's strongest franchises to date. And at the time, when it was competing against Japanese film giants like Seven Samurai (a film which Gojira would lose to in the Best Picture Award race, and I can't disagree, Seven Samurai is an epic and a classic adventure for Japanese Cinema), it battled harsh reviews that made 1998s Godzilla look merciful.
What isn't to like about the legendary debut of the King of Monsters? Not only is it successful in portraying the then, young fears of nuclear warfare in the Japanese culture, but was successful in creating the most iconic monster in film history. Yes this was the predictable and clear choice for number one.
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