Godzilla Minus One

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Summary

The director ofGodzilla Minus Onehas addressed a possible sequel . The movie , which is the 33rd Japanese - languageGodzillamovie produced by Toho , is a post - worldwide War II drama following formerkamikazepilot Kōichi Shikishima ( Ryunosuke Kamiki ) attempting to reconstruct his lifespan in a war - tear Tokyo along with the similarly orphan Noriko Ōishi ( Minami Hamabe ) , only to have the metropolis jeopardise by the emergence of the giant colossus Godzilla . While the movie terminate with Godzilla defeated and the couple reunite , the shameful ending implied that Noriko had potentially developed radiation toxic condition and that Godzilla was n’t really dead .

PerDexerto ’s translation , Sanspowas in attending at the picture show ’s Japanese premiere , which took place a month before theGodzilla Minus Onereleasein the U.S. While speaking at the effect , writer - music director and ocular effects designer Takashi Yamazaki speak about the hypothesis of the picture getting a continuation . Although he say making the project was a dream of his , he felt " lone " subsequently and shared that " I want to make one more picture show . " Read Yamazaki ’s full understand quote below :

I ’ve always wanted to make a Godzilla movie , so this was the here and now when my pipe dream of 50 years add up true . But I felt lonely [ after it was stop ] … I wanted to make one more movie . I enquire if you may give me one ?

Godzilla Minus One Movie Poster

Godzilla Minus One 2 Could Break a Modern Franchise Precedent

It remains to be see ifGodzilla Minus One 2is greenlit by the studio apartment . However , the motion picture ’s stellar box office carrying into action could potentially be a good sign for that possibility . The $ 15 million budgeted motion picture has already grossed roughly $ 26 million in Japan and has broken phonograph record at the domesticated box office , earning the highest - gross Japanese alive - action curtain raising weekend in the U.S. as well as becoming the first foreign - language alive - action movie to take No . 1 for a solar day in the part since Jet Li’sHero19 year before .

Godzilla Minus One ’s worldwide box office aggregate is presently over $ 40 million .

If the movie does get a sequel , it will bring out a common law that has been countersink in the modernGodzillafranchise . While the American leg , which includes King Kong and is known as the Monsterverse , imply an interconnected universe with strict continuity , no live - action mechanism JapaneseGodzillamovieshave had strongly unite persistence in 20 years . The most recent direct sequel was 2003’sGodzilla : Tokyo S.O.S , which followed 2002’sGodzilla Against Mechagodzillaand come in the middle of a run of movies in the novel millenary that presented themselves as sequels to the originalGodzillawithout interrelating with one another .

Ryunosuke Kamiki as Kōichi Shikishima Standing in Rubble with a Bandaged Head in Godzilla Minus One

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Even in run of the franchise prior to the 2000s , persistence tend to be open , and individual entries typically did n’t ask knowledge of the previous installment . The longest sustained run lasted for seven movies between 1984’sThe Return of Godzillaand 1995’sGodzilla vs. Destoroyah , the latter six of which featured Megumi Odaka as the psychic Miki Saegusa . With its foregrounded human - level story and explicit sequel tease , Godzilla Minus Onecould be poised to be a significant open frame to this overall trend and mimic this stretchiness of late 20th - century installments .

Source : Sanspo(viaDexerto )

Minami Hamabe as Noriko on the train in Godzilla Minus One

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