Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1998 Re-Release of the American Version)Amazon. com The first of the Godzilla movies, and the most somber and serious in tone, Godzilla, King of the Monsters was originally a 98 minute Japanese horror film, until a U. S. company bought the rights and reissued the film at its current 79 minutes, replacing sequences involving a Japanese reporter with new inserts of a dour, pipe smoking Raymond Burr. True to the fashion of cautionary monster movies, Godzilla has arisen due to nuclear radiation