Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships explode and are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by paleontologist Professor Kyohei Yemani soon discover something more devastating than imagined in the form of a 50 meter tall monster whom the natives call Gojira. Now the monster begins a rampage that threatens to destroy not only Japan, but the rest of the world as well.
This movie contains 32 potentially triggering events.
The technology used to kill Godzilla is first demonstrated on aquarium fish, which are reduced to skeletons and then to nothing at all. Near the beginning of the film, dead fish and trilobites are found in Godzilla's footprints. Godzilla, himself, does not survive the movie.
If you would classify Godzilla as a dragon, then yes. He's ancient, huge, reptilian, and has radiation breath that causes explosions and fire, so I can see why his death could potentially be triggering to big dragon lovers. If you're sticking to a more strict definition of a dragon, then no.
Yes, but it's off-screen or played down. We see people get hit by Godzilla's radiation breath. Unlike everything else how breath hits, they do not burst into flashes; they simply fall to the ground, dead. Elsewhere, Godzilla's radiation breath causes raging fires that rapidly destroy buildings and are understood to kill many, though their deaths are not shown.
Most notably, a news crew filming from a tower is shown falling and screaming as Godzilla destroys the tower. They are not shown hitting the ground, but their deaths are understood.
In one scene, a mother is seen holding her children, saying that they will be with their father soon. It is not known if they survive.
In a later scene, a child is scanned with a Geiger counter, with the counter detecting a large, and implied to be fatal, amount of radiation.
In the original Japanese version, a woman is seen on the street holding her children when Godzilla is on his huge rampage towards the end of the second act. She tells them that they will all be "where daddy is soon."
A mother is seen comforting her children during one of Godzilla's rampage, and says that they will be with their father soon, implying that he was killed off-screen in the rampage.
Additionally, in a scene after a rampage, a child is seen in a hospital crying over her mother's death.
After Godzilla is driven back into the sea, there is a scene showing a multitude of people receiving medical treatment. People are carried on stretchers and doctors and nurses rush about, tending to as many as possible. A girl screams and sobs as her unconscious mother is taken away for treatment. A doctor is shown scanning children for radiation and it is implied that everyone has been irradiated. The scene may or may not take place in an actual hospital, but more closely resembles a war zone, with people laid out on the ground.
The scientist who created the new weapon to destroy Godzilla does not want the technology to be used ever again. He destroys all of his research before taking the device underwater and setting it off to kill Godzilla. However, he also notes that he still remembers how to create the weapon and could be coerced. After observing the weapon's effect on Godzilla, he takes out a knife and cuts the line connecting him to the surface so that his friends cannot retrieve him. His death is not shown and it is unclear how he dies.
The movie is in black and white and features various strobe-like effects. There are many explosions, raging fires, Godzilla's flickering radiation breath, bright camera flashes from news crews, flashing and melting electrical towers, etc.
The closest to hate speech is the American reporter in the English edit referring to the events of the film as shaking "the civilised world", which has unflattering implications for parts of the world that aren't considered civilised, though is moreso outdated than downright hateful
This is very debatable. Godzilla is defeated, but a major character dies, a great deal of destruction is left in Godzilla's wake, and it is implied that such a creature could attack again.
It's unclear. The scientist who kills Godzilla remains underwater and his death is not shown. Cause of death is not implied; he may have allowed himself to drown or he could have easily moved in range of the still-firing weapon. He also had a knife. Godzilla makes thrashing movements underwater that could be upsetting to some, but it is clear that he does not drown.
Near the beginning of the movie, sailors on a ship are seen reacting to a loud noise and a flash of light. This is implied to be Godzilla, but could be seen as an analogy to a nuclear blast.