 Tôhô released this American version of its own _Gojira (1954)_ (qv)  to Japanese audiences in 1957. The studio ballyhooed it as being a  Cinemascope production, when in fact what Toho did was chop off the  top and the bottom of the frame. These mutilated shots later made it  into the studios _Daikaijû Baran (1958)_ (qv).