Gojira (1954) - Prayer For Peace

From the 1954 movie, Gojira. Akira Ifukube's haunting dirge, a prayer for peace. When Dr. Daisuke Serizawa is confronted with a terrible choice, whether or not to use a horrible superweapon to stop the radioactive spawn of another superweapon -- the atom bomb -- his decision is made when he hears this song played on the television. One cannot help but be moved to tears upon hearing this mournful, haunting melody.

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• Gojira
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• Prayer
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• Peace

[DanPhantom89]

whenever I hear this song, I immediately think of the 9/11 attacks, of the victims and the people who gave their own lives to try and save others.

[DanPhantom89]

in that case, godzilla will always be around. Nuclear weapons will never be gone; you can't close pandora's box, so to speak. Sadly, it would be dangerous to disarm, because of the lunatics and brutal dictators in the world who have no ethics and would take advantage of what is meant to be humane and compassionate.

I doubt war will ever be gone, either; we have a brutal nature, and always have. we've just gotten better at killing over the centuries.

[creech444]

This song seems oddly appropriate now with all the destruction in Japan. Godzilla would be crying for his homeland now.

[wmelmoth]

@DanPhantom89 Sadly many of these lunatics are in our own congress and senate.

[wmelmoth]

@DanPhantom89 Sadly many of these lunatics are in our own congress and senate.

[WolfkinNorthclaw]

@MrSuperman216 Japanese I suspect maybe one of the older dialects..perhaps from Hokido maybe?

[TheIdiotboy2]

@DanPhantom89 I agree

[MrSuperman216]

What exactly are the lyrics of this prayer, so to speak? What language is this?

This is so moving

[lanternmatango]

Where have we come in the nearly 60 years since this song was sung? Since we first witnessed what great destruction human madness is capable of? How our hidden cache of weapons has grown, the atom bomb was never enough! This dirge has echoed through the decades, as it will the centuries, as long as there are still ghosts left to listen.

[DanPhantom89]

@vader19907 In that case, we're probably doomed. Our technology has grown, but our basic nature has stayed the same.

[vader19907]

@DanPhantom89 thus we will be our own extinction if we don't change and fast