Godzilla, the fire-breathing movie monster born in a nuclear accident, is joining Hollywood royalty with a star on the Walk of Fame.
A ceremony will honor the giant lizard in front of Hollywood Boulevard's famed Grauman's Chinese Theatre on Nov. 29, the world premiere of "Godzilla: Final Wars," said Shogo Tomiyama, president of Toho Pictures Inc.
The movie, the 28th in the series, will mark 50 years since Godzilla emerged from the sea.
Featuring a showdown with 10 monsters bashing through tiny sets of Paris, New York, Shanghai, China, and Sydney, Australia, it will be the last time that Godzilla stomps through miniaturized sets before retiring.
"This movie will surprise and delight everyone, from longtime fans to first-time viewers," Tomiyama said Wednesday at a news conference.
Known in Japan as Gojira, from a combination of the words for gorilla and whale, the monster first appeared in director Ishiro Honda's 1954 black-and-white classic.
It was roused from its undersea lair by a hydrogen bomb test - a story line that reflected fears of a nuclear holocaust after the United States tested an H-bomb at Bikini Atoll.
Tom Cruise left a permanent mark on Tokyo as he became the first foreign actor to have his hand print molded for a spot on a downtown Tokyo square honoring celebrities.
Pressing his right hand into a mold of gray clay, the American actor flashed a "thumbs up" Wednesday to a horde of media and fans gathered in the rain.
His hand print is set to be transferred by the end of the month onto Tokyo's Nemu no Hiroba, which features metal plaques with the hand prints and signatures of famous actors, much like Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
Cruise, 42, was in Japan to promote his new movie, "Collateral," in which he plays a contract killer who hijacks a cab driver and forces him to drive from hit to hit.
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