Country: Japan
Language: Japanese

About the film:

War reduced Japan to zero, and Godzilla plunged it into minus. Two years have passed since then, and the country has faced agonizing struggles to achieve recovery and finally reclaim its daily life. Just as humanity managed to cling to a hard-won peace, a new threat strikes, crushing hope in an instant.

About the filmmaker:

Takashi Yamazaki is a Japanese filmmaker and visual effects supervisor. He joined Shi­rogu­mi Stu­dio in 1986 where he super­vised the dig­i­tal spe­cial effects on their films. In 2000, he direct­ed Juve­nile, his first live action film. Yamazaki gained recognition with his third film, Always: Sunset on Third Street (2005), which won twelve awards at the 29th Japanese Academy Awards. He has directed film adaptations of celebrated anime, including Space Battleship Yamato (2010) and Parasyte (2014), as well as animated films such as Stand by Me Dorae­mon (2014). His latest films include Lupin III: The First (2019), The Great War Of Archimedes (2019), and Godzilla Minus One (2023), which premiered as the closing film at the 36th Tokyo International Film Festival.

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