The most successful monster movies were kaiju films released by Japanese film studio Toho. The 1954 film "Godzilla", with the title monster attacking Tokyo, gained immense popularity, spawned multiple sequels, led to other kaiju films like "Rodan", and created one of the most recognizable monsters in cinema history. Japanese science fiction films, particularly the tokusatsu and kaiju genres, were known for their extensive use of special effects, and gained worldwide popularity in the 1950s. Kaiju and tokusatsu films, notably "Warning from Space" (1956), sparked Stanley Kubrick's interest in science fiction films and influenced "" (1968). According to his biographer John Baxter, despite their "clumsy model sequences, the films were often well-photographed in colour ... and their dismal dialogue was delivered in well-designed and well-lit sets."