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Director:
Writers:
David Duncan (U.S. version)
Takeshi Kimura (writer)
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Release Date:
August 1957 (USA) more
Genre:
Tagline:
Never a Horror Like It! more
Plot:
When a village is besieged by giant caterpillars, a more horrifying discovery is made in their underground home... more | add synopsis
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Cast

  (Credited cast)
Kenji Sahara ... Shigeru Kawamura, colliery engineer (as Kenji Sawara)
Yumi Shirakawa ... Kiyo, Shigeru's lover
Akihiko Hirata ... Professor KYUichiro Kashiwagi (biology)
Akio Kobori ... Police Chief Nishimura
Yasuko Nakata ... Female Honeymooner
Minosuke Yamada ... Colliery Chief Osaki
Yoshifumi Tajima ... Izeki, reporter of Seibu Nippou
Kiyoharu Onaka ... Male Honeymooner, Sunagawa's friend (as Kiyoharu Ohnaka)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ichirô Chiba ... Chief of police station
Mike Daneen ... American Soldier Typing
Tazue Ichimanji ... Haru, Kiyo's neighbor (as Tsurue Ichimanji)
Saburo Iketani ... News Reader
Saburo Kadowaki ... Sunagawa's colleague
Tateo Kawasaki ... Tsunesan, miner
Kanta Kisaragi ... Suteyan, miner
Takuzo Kumagaya ... Policeman Tashiro (as Jirô Kumagai)
Saeko Kuroiwa ... Nurse
Tsuruko Mano ... Osumi, Kiyo's neighbor
Mitsuo Matsumoto ... Professor Isokawa
Hideo Mihara ... Commander of JASDF
Kiyomi Mizunoya ... Otami, Yoshizo's wife
Junichirô Mukai ... Military officer
Toshiko Nakano ... Kiyo's neighbor
Rinsaku Ogata ... Goro, miner, Kiyo's older brother
Keiji Sakakida ... Tahei, miner
Yasuhiro Shigenobu ... Sabu, miner
Junnosuke Suda ... Coroner
Shigemi Sunagawa ... F-86F pilot
Jiro Suzukawa ... Yoshizo, miner
Masaaki Tachibana ... Policeman
Bontaro Taira ... Laborer
Kiyoshi Takagi ... Dr.Minakami (colliery)
Kamayuki Tsubono ... Policeman of the crime laboratory
Mitsuo Tsuda ... Staff officer Takeuchi
Hideo Unagami
Akira Yamada ... Radio operator on jeep
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Radon
Radon, Monster from the Sky (literal English title)
Rodan
Rodan! The Flying Monster (USA)
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Runtime:
82 min | USA:70 min (16 mm television syndication prints) | USA:72 min (English dubbed version) | USA:74 min
Country:
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Perspecta Sound encoding) (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Rodan's original Japanese name, Radon, is actually short for the Japanese word for Pteranodon ("Puteranodon"). more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: In one scene in the control tower at the Japanese AF Base, background footage of planes on the ground can be seen to pause, then run in reverse. more
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9 out of 10 people found the following comment useful.
Monster fun, 11 September 2003
7/10
Author: Honus1 from Cathedral City, CA

OK, I know it's only a guy in a rubber suit, but I'm a sucker for those 1950's monster flic. Rodan rates as one of the favorites. Hindered by dated special effects, (you can tell the monsters are people in uniforms; the buildings are obviously miniature, cheaply built sets; the acting is, of course, awful) but it's still a fun watch. Good campy fun when you keep it in perspective. At the end, a tear even comes to the eye as the 2 Rodans share their fate together. It will always be part of my library. Try to get the original Japanese version if you can. Though expensive and not subtitled into English, it gives a story a whole different look.

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