pringly wrote:
Who won in the Japanese version.
Kong. Kong wins in every version, unless you cut your own where he doesn't. While its true that there are differences between the Japanese and U.S. version (most in terms of new footage added of Americans sitting and talking about the monsters on a satellite) of this film the story that there were two endings made, one where Kong wins for U.S. viewers and one where Godzilla wins for Japanese viewers, is total bunk and perhaps one of the greatest cinematic urban legends ever.

Just this past weekend I was having to tell the guy who works projecting at my theater for the umpteenth time that this film doesn't have two endings and then today io9 runs an article about the greatest monster battles on films (which of course includes KKvs.G) and I see in the comments someone else spreading the duel endings myth, fortunately at least six people had already replied straightening him out.

I guess it comes down to Godzilla fans being unwilling to believe that G could loose to Kong. But think about it, at this point in his career Godzilla was still the bad guy. He had just leveled Tokyo in 1954 and then trashed Osaka fighting Anguirus in 1955. It only makes sense that in 1962 Godzilla would be the villan and Kong - who the Japanese love - the hero. Plus in the following film, 1964's Mothra vs. Godzilla, Godzilla is still the bad guy and Mothra the hero and Godzilla too looses here too. It isn't until Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster that Godzilla becomes a hero and that's at the end of that film, at the beginning he's still a bad guy. In fact you could argue that he's a bad guy all the way until the 70s but thats another discussion.