Tickets can be purchased here, and are $13 for general admission, $10 for seniors and students, and $5 for Japanese Society members.
The movie is being show in conjunction with an event being held later in in the month, "Directing Godzilla: The Life Of Filmmaker Ishiro Honda", featuring Steve Ryfle, co-author of the recent biography Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, From Godzilla to Kurosawa. You can save $2 on a ticket to the latter event if you purchase both tickets together.
Japan Society describes the film:
The seminal classic that introduced the world to kaiju eiga and everyone's favorite city-stomping radioactive monster. Directed by Ishiro Honda, Godzilla provided the ultimate allegory for post-war nuclear anxiety through the story of a prehistoric sea creature rampaging through Tokyo after being awakened by underwater H-bomb testing. A domestic box office hit that went on to enrapture international audiences and spawn over two dozen sequels and countless imitations, the original film still retains the power to inspire awe in its evocation of humanity's confrontation with the ever-present threat of nuclear annihilation.
1954, 96 min., DCP, b&w, in Japanese with English subtitles. Directed by Ishiro Honda. With Akira Takarada, Momoko Kochi, Akihiko Hirata, Takashi Shimura.
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