Godzilla destroying Tokyo in the original 1954 film. Image via www.japantimes.co.jp
Sometimes in a Japanese monster movie there will be a scene where the immense but misunderstood dragon-lizard is seen pre-puberty and pre-carnage, as just a beak cracking through its birth egg; little and loveable.
Not until the monster is fully grown and breathing fire on the good citizens of downtown Tokyo does anyone finally stop to say, ‘Er, what should we do now?’
