Godzilla Minue One

Godzilla Minus One

Godzilla Minus One is definitely not a Hollywood movie; it’s a bit too hoaky for Hollywood. This is a Japanese film set in Japan at the end of WW2. The film has a fair-to-good Godzilla destroying cities and throwing ships and trains, which one expects. But then there is a melodramatic story of romance and a citizen army fighting Godzilla. The characters are post-war Japanese veterans dealing with the aftermath of the war, which is a bit interesting, but such lousy acting gets in the way. The main character is a Kamikazee pilot, Koichi Shikishima (played by Ryunosuke Kamiki), disgraced because he survived the war.

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As mentioned earlier, the film is hoaky in many areas. The acting is terrible, the miniature models are obvious and poorly done, the logistics and tactics used to combat Godzilla are incorrect – the timing is all wrong – and Godzilla looks plastic, especially when the monster’s scales begin to light up.

The filmmaker is trying to make a statement that PTSD (although never mentioned because it was not a thing in 1946) was the cause of their behavior, but the bad acting and bad writing did not work.

Here is a slightly better Godzilla film.

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Godzilla is a Japanese monster, or kaiju, media franchise consisting of films, television series, novels, comic books, video games, and other merchandise. The franchise centers on the fictional kaiju Godzilla, a prehistoric reptilian monster awakened and powered by nuclear radiation. Guinness World Records recognizes Godzilla as the “longest continuously running film franchise.” Godzilla has been in ongoing production since 1954, with several hiatuses of varying lengths. The film franchise consists of 38 films.

Movie Details

Director

Takashi Yamazaki

Writer

Takashi Yamazaki

Actors

Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Yuki Yamada, Munetaka Aoki, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Sakura Ando, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Saki Nakatani, Mio Tanaka, Yuya Endo, Kisuke Iida, Kenji Anan, Kenji Mizuhashi, Kunihiro Suda, Shota Taniguchi, Akio Nakadai, Ippei Sasaki, Ozuno Nakamura, Masaichi Wanibuchi, Sho Nishigaki, Fuma Sasaki, Tsutomu Osabe, Yuji Komatsu, Yosuke Minokawa, Sentarou Kusakabe, Kota Kawabata, Genki Furugen, Yuto Yoshikawa, Yuya Oshima, Hirotaka Akatsuma, Ryo Hamanaka, Kiyomi Aratani, Yukio Tsukamoto, Shoji Omiya, Michael Arias, Masataka Matsubara, Kentaro Furuyama, Takumi Matsui, Tetsu Hirahara, Hiroyuki Toritani, Seitaro Chiba, Tatsuki Oguma, Hidemasa Mase, Jun Ohnishi, Yuho Mochinaga, Daiki Ichikawa, Yasunori Ota, Ryota Tsuchihashi, Atsushi Saitou, Masayuki Yamada, Goro Sato, Keisuke Fujita, Yuta Wakabayashi, Koya Fukuda, Shunpeter Sugisaki, Yuki Takao, Yusuke Karita, Makoto Matsumoto, Shinji Nagashima, Akihiro Yamamoto, Hidehiko Yamada, Atomu Ito, Django Yamada, Gomez Hori, Shohei Abe, Gen Shimada, Masatoshi Kihara, Masaru Yahagi, Touta Tawaragi, Etsuji Harada, Senji Nakagi, Tetsunori Akira, Mao Ohno, Ami Kitamikado, Yoka, Mami Tokuda, Yukihide Ueda, Sho Tsuruta, Makoto Araki, Yamato Aizawa, Mizuki Hasegawa, Kisuke Inoue, Miki Mirai, Daichi Abe, Rikako Miura, Gohshuu, Yuko Onose, Seiji Okuda, Eisuke Sasai, Shinsuke Kasai, Saori, Takato Yonemoto, Yoshiyo Naka, Ikumu Shigeta, Keita Chiba, Masato Nakano, Kiyoshi Uchida, Aya Sakura, Ayane Kamoi, Risa Miyake, Mami Aoki

Runtime

2 h 05 min

Release Date

3 November 2023

Genres

Science Fiction, Horror, Action

Overview

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.