# Rodan - Die fliegenden Monster von Osaka (1956)

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**Original title**: *空の大怪獸 ラドン*
**Runtime**: 72 min
**Genres**: Horror, Science Fiction
**Directed by**: Ishirō Honda
**Written by**: Takeo Murata, Takeshi Kimura, Ken Kuronuma
**Starring**: Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Akihiko Hirata, Minosuke Yamada, Yoshibumi Tajima, Akio Kobori

> *Born from a volcanic crater, the crimson monster bird Rodan tramples the Earth*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Fukuoka mines summer air thick with drilling sounds a pickaxe strikes stone 
Miners disappear in dark tunnels 
A classic kaiju emerges in Ishirō Honda's era of monster films.

**Mood tags**: 3am-cult

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