This shows Godzilla in a scene from Hollywood’s “Godzilla” released by 2014 Legendary Pictures Funding, LLC and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

Yoshinori Nishizawa, 28, who lives in Tokyo and works in nursing, holds a Godzilla towel outside a movie theater in Tokyo on Friday.

Takeshi Maruyama is surrounded by his collection of Godzilla and other monster figures at his apartment in Yokohama, near Tokyo.

Takeshi Maruyama, 28, picks up a model of the first Godzilla, shown with other items in his collection at his apartment in Yokohama, near Tokyo. “

A 24-carat gold Godzilla, worth an estimated $148 million, is displayed during a press preview of the Godzilla Expo in Tokyo this month.

Various Godzilla models are displayed during a press preview of the Godzilla Expo in Tokyo this month.

Japanese Godzilla devotees Yoshihiko Horie and his wife Shizue look at a scale model of Godzilla at the Godzilla Expo in Tokyo on Friday.

Japanese Godzilla devotees Yoshihiko Horie and his wife Shizue look at the scale model of Godzilla at Godzilla Expo in Tokyo on Friday.

Children look at a 9-foot model of a 1998 Godzilla character in a Tokyo auto showroom.