Godzilla for Valentines

For Valentine's Day, my wife and I bought the two-DVD set of the 1954 movie Gojira and the 1956 movie Godzilla, King of the Monsters. For those who don't know, Gojira was the first movie to star the giant dinosaur-like creature that has terrorized Tokyo for over five decades. In 1956, an American distributor shot footage of Raymond Burr and edited the footage around some of the Japanese sequences and released the movie in the United States.

Both versions of the movie tell more or less the...