Godzilla Minus One

Godzilla Minus One (2023)

ゴジラ-1.0

戦後、日本。無（ゼロ）から負（マイナス）へ。

In postwar Japan, Godzilla brings new devastation to an already scorched landscape. With no military intervention or government help in sight, the survivors must join together in the face of despair and fight back against an unrelenting horror.

Date of release
2023-11-03
TMDB
7.6 / 10 (3545)
Runtime
2h 5m
Genres
Science Fiction, Horror, Action
Director
Takashi Yamazaki
Collection
Godzilla Minus Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: $58.5M
  • Budget: $15M
  • Earned 3.9× its budget
  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: Academy Award for Best Visual Effects

Godzilla Minus One is a 2023 Japanese epic kaiju film written, directed, and with visual effects by Takashi Yamazaki. It is the 37th film in the Godzilla franchise, the 33rd film thereof produced by Toho, and the fifth installment in the Reiwa era. Set in postwar Japan, the film stars Ryunosuke Kamiki as a former kamikaze pilot suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after encountering the giant monster Godzilla. The supporting cast includes Minami Hamabe, Yuki Yamada, Munetaka Aoki, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Sakura Ando, and Kuranosuke Sasaki.

Production

Toho first approached then-emerging filmmaker Takashi Yamazaki around 2005, while he was making Always: Sunset on Third Street, with an offer to direct a Godzilla film. Yamazaki declined at the time, concluding that his Godzilla would need to be entirely made with computer-generated imagery (CGI), which was not yet feasible with the then-limited CGI technology available in Japan.

Following the critical and commercial success of Shin Godzilla (2016) in Japan, Toho received numerous proposals for live-action follow-ups. According to producers Kenji Yamada and Kishida, studio executives rejected these ideas, believing the next film needed to be entirely new and exceptional. In 2017, Shin Godzilla co-director Shinji Higuchi stated that the company would not be able to produce another Godzilla film until after 2020.

In 2019, Toho began a "Godzilla Room" division, devoted to planning new Godzilla projects. Following the completion of his film The Great War of Archimedes that same year, producer Minami Ichikawa appointed Yamazaki to make Toho's next Godzilla film. Development officially began when Yamazaki submitted the film's plot in March 2019.

On February 18, 2022, Robot Communications announced the film under the working title Blockbuster Monster Movie (超大作怪獣映画, Chōtaisaku Kaijū Eiga), via a casting call on its official website. Robot stated Yamazaki would direct and that Toho would present the film.

Yamazaki's unnamed kaiju project was declared to be a Godzilla film on November 3, 2022, at an event hosted by Toho celebrating the franchise's 68th anniversary, known as "Godzilla Day". The company also reported that the film had completed filming and had entered post-production with a targeted release date of November 3, 2023. Yamazaki was named the film's writer and visual effects supervisor.

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