Sora no Daikaiju Radon 1956

Japanese	空の大怪獣ラドン
Hepburn	Sora no Daikaijū Radon
Directed by	Ishirō Honda
Screenplay by	Takeshi Kimura Takeo Murata
Story by	Ken Kuronuma
Produced by	Tomoyuki Tanaka
Starring	Kenji Sahara Yumi Shirakawa
Cinematography	Isamu Ashida
Edited by	Kôichi Iwashita Robert S. Eisen
Music by	Akira Ifukube
Production company	Toho
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	December 26, 1956
Running time	82 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Rodan (Japanese: 空の大怪獣ラドン, Hepburn: Sora no Daikaijū Radon, lit. ’Giant Monster of the Sky Rodan’) is a 1956 Japanese kaiju film directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. Produced and distributed by Toho Studios, it was Toho’s first kaiju film to be shot in color, and is one of several giant monster films that found an audience outside Japan. The film stars Kenji Sahara and Yumi Shirakawa. In the United States, it was released in 1957 as Rodan! The Flying Monster!.