In 1933, the American Raiden Hua Film Company produced and released the monster movie " King Kong ". In addition to the lack of film themes in Japan after the war, Japan's Toho Film Company decided to make a monster movie
. In 1953, after watching the American movie " The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms ", Eiji Tsuburaya had an idea in his mind. He also wanted to design a huge creature beyond human cognition
.
In March 1954, the United States conducted a hydrogen bomb test explosion on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, but the power of the explosion far exceeded the originally set sea area. The Japanese tuna fishing boat "Fifth Fulong Maru" was bombed and 23 crew members were affected. Radiation damage. Following the nuclear explosions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, the Japanese people's fear of nuclear weapons escalated again. Tsuburaya's team took this as an opportunity to start creating. Producer Tomoyuki Tanaka proposed a scenario where a primitive dinosaur was awakened by a hydrogen bomb test near Bikini Atoll and attacked Tokyo
.
