Rodan (released as Sora no Daikaijū Radon (空の大怪獣 ラドン, “Giant Monster of the Sky, Radon”) is a 1956 Japanese kaiju film directed by Ishirō Honda and produced by Toho Studios and Tomoyuki Tanaka. The film, which stars Kenji Sahara and Yumi Shirakawa, was Toho’s first kaiju film to be shot in color, and is one of several giant monster films that found an audience outside Japan. In the United States, it was released in 1957 as Rodan! The Flying Monster!, before receiving a 1959 re-release on a double bill with Gigantis the Fire Monster.