Uchujin65 wrote: It was a very smart business move, however. Only 10 years prior to 1954 Americans were sitting in their theaters watching Know Your Enemy: Japan and the military recruiting offices had posters hanging on the wall like "stay on the job until every stinkin' Jap is DEAD!".


That's true, but the Japanese were being shown in, if not a sympathetic light, a not so black and white 'evil' one before Godzilla in Hollywood cinema - probably due in part to the occupation and zeitgeist of MacArthur, etc... There was Humphrey Bogart's 'Tokyo Joe' in 1949, for instance...
And a year after the American release of Godzilla we had Marlon Brando in 'Sayonara', featuring two cross-cultural romances....

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