Momoko Kôchi: Momoko Kôchi. Actress: Godzilla. Discovered, along with actors Akira Takarada and Yû Fujiki, in Toho's sixth annual New Face Contest in 1953, Momoko Kochi was immediately cast in her first film, A Woman's Heart Released Onna gokoro wa hitosuji ni (1953). Two pictures with Toho's veteran director Kajirô Yamamoto followed the next year. It was probably in his mentor Yamamoto's films that younger director Ishirô Honda saw her and chose...
