Although I prefer the original Japanese GOJIRA, that doesn't mean I've started sneering at GOZILLA, KING OF THE MONSTERS! The more overtly anti A-Bomb dialogue in the original Japanese film wouldn't have gone down well to a 1956 American audience that remembered Pearl Harbor, the Bataan Death March and the Rape of Nanking, and several of the edits simply cut to the chase, like shortening Dr. Yamane's lecture on just how it could be that Godzilla's alive. Yamane comes off a little unreasonable in the Japanese cut, still insisting that Godzilla be studied after he's just seen the monster trash a railyard, a train, and a bridge. And as several other posts have said, Serizawa's suicide could not have come as a surprise to a 1954 Japanese audience, as he's constantly saying that's the only way to keep the secret of the Oxygen Destroyer safe if he ever dares use it. As far as Raymond Burr is concerned, he keeps the somber mood of the film and it's evident he takes all this very seriously indeed.