TOKYO -- Godzilla, Japan's iconic super monster, turned 70 years old this fall, commemorated not by celebrations and fanfare but by a retro Godzilla movie that takes us back to 1945.
"Godzilla Minus One" released on Nov. 3, is the 30th live-action film (there are also eight anime productions) in a franchise that kicked off in 1954 -- just nine years after Japan's WWII surrender. The claw marks of the war were still fresh, many streets in Tokyo were still filled with rubble and many families were struggling to put food on the table.
