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95-560: Shin Godzilla ( シン・ゴジラ , Shin Gojira ) is a 2016 Japanese kaiju film directed by Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi , with a screenplay by Anno and visual effects by Higuchi. Produced by Toho Pictures and Cine Bazar and distributed by Toho Co., Ltd., it is the 31st film in the Godzilla franchise , the 29th film produced by Toho, Toho's third reboot of the franchise, and the first film in

190-698: A Shin Godzilla zip line attraction in Kobe, Japan. Kaiju Godzilla (1954) is often regarded as the first kaiju movie. When developing it, Honda and Tsuburaya drew inspiration from the character of King Kong , both in its influential 1933 film and in the conception of a giant monster, establishing it as a pivotal precursor in the evolution of the genre. During its formative years, kaiju movies were generally neglected by Japanese critics, who regarded them as "juvenile gimmick", according to authors Steve Ryfle and Ed Godziszewski. Kaiju are often somewhat metaphorical in nature; Godzilla , for example, serves as

285-623: A coagulating agent to freeze Godzilla. Analyzing tissue samples, it's discovered that Godzilla is an ever-evolving creature, able to reproduce asexually. The United Nations , aware of this, informs Japan that thermonuclear weapons will be used against Godzilla should the Japanese fail to subdue it in a few days; evacuations are ordered in multiple prefectures in preparation. Unwilling to see nuclear weapons detonated in Japan again, Patterson uses her political connections to buy time for Yaguchi's team, in which

380-486: A fictional dinosaur (animated by Ray Harryhausen ), which is released from its frozen, hibernating state by an atomic bomb test within the Arctic Circle . The American movie was released in Japan in 1954 under the title The Atomic Kaiju Appears , marking the first use of the genre's name in a film title. However, Godzilla , released in 1954, is commonly regarded as the first Japanese kaiju film. Tomoyuki Tanaka ,

475-453: A "birth of a masterpiece that boldly announces the revival of a Japanese Godzilla". Brian Ashcraft from Kotaku felt the film was a "letdown", though he praised the film's special effects and social reflection of Japan, he criticized the film's depiction of the human characters, stating, "I wish the movie explored the relationships between the politicians and the researchers more instead of glossing over it" and concluded that "This isn't one of

570-540: A Time , Shin Ultraman and Shin Kamen Rider . In 2017, Universal Studios Japan featured a temporary 4D Shin Godzilla attraction as part of its Universal Cool Japan 2017 program. In 2018, a statue of the film's version of Godzilla was erected in central Tokyo. The area was dubbed Hibiya Godzilla Square and is considered to be largest Godzilla statue in Japan, according to Toho. In October 2020, Nijigen no Mori opened

665-571: A black reptilian skin pattern and either red or glow-in-the-dark green coloring in Japan. Shin Godzilla was theatrically released on July 29, 2016, in Japan in IMAX , 4DX , and MX4D in over 350 theaters and 446 screens. It had its red carpet premiere on July 25, 2016. The premiere took place in Tokyo along Kabuki-cho Central Road, with a red carpet from the Hotel Gracery Shinjuku, the hotel which has

760-440: A code, on the boat before disappearing. The creature—named " Godzilla ," after Maki's research—reappears in its fourth form, twice its original size, making landfall near Kamakura . The Japan Self-Defense Forces mobilize but prove ineffective as Godzilla breaks through their defenses into Tokyo. The U.S. intervenes with a massively destructive airstrike plan, prompting the evacuation of civilians and government personnel. Godzilla

855-513: A financial risk by doing so, as assisted funding from other organizations is customary for the creation of Japanese films. On September 23, 2015, Toho revealed the film's official title as Shin Gojira and that the film would star Hiroki Hasegawa , Yutaka Takenouchi , and Satomi Ishihara . Producer Akihiro Yamauchi stated that the title Shin Gojira was chosen for the film due to the variety of meanings it conveys, such as either "new" ( 新 ), "true" ( 真 ), or "God" ( 神 ). Yamauchi also confirmed that

950-569: A form of puppetry interwoven between suitmation scenes for shots that were physically impossible for the suit actor to perform. From the 1998 release of Godzilla , American-produced kaiju films strayed from suitmation to computer-generated imagery (CGI). In Japan, CGI and stop-motion have been increasingly used for certain special sequences and monsters, but suitmation has been used for an overwhelming majority of kaiju films produced in Japan of all eras. Massive Ordnance Penetrator The GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator ( MOP )

1045-400: A human ( suit actor ) to wear and act in. This was combined with the use of miniature models and scaled-down city sets to create the illusion of a giant creature in a city. Due to the extreme stiffness of the latex or rubber suits, filming would often be done at double speed, so that when the film was shown, the monster was smoother and slower than in the original shot. Kaiju films also used

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1140-462: A lasting impact and solidifying the figure of the giant monster as an essential component in genre cinematography. RKO Pictures later licensed the King Kong character to the Japanese studio Toho , resulting in the co-productions King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) and King Kong Escapes (1967), both directed by Ishirō Honda . Yoshirō Edamasa directed The Great Buddha Arrival in 1934. Although

1235-443: A little, I would have to do the same thing [as the first film]." Mahiro Maeda provided the new design for Godzilla while Takayuki Takeya provided the maquette . Director Higuchi stated that he intended to provide the "most terrifying Godzilla that Japan's cutting-edge special-effects movie-making can muster." A variety of techniques such as puppets, animatronics, and digital effects were initially considered and an upper-body animatronic

1330-467: A metaphor for nuclear weapons , reflecting the fears of post-war Japan following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Lucky Dragon 5 incident. Other notable examples of kaiju characters include King Kong , Rodan , Mothra , King Ghidorah , and Gamera . The Japanese word kaijū originally referred to monsters and creatures from ancient Japanese legends; it earlier appeared in

1425-455: A more mixed response. The special effects and new depiction of Godzilla were praised, but the film was criticized for its long scenes, confusing dialogue, over-crowded characters and subplots. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes , the film has an approval rating of 86% based on 73 reviews, with an average rating of 6.70/10. The site's consensus reads: " Godzilla: Resurgence offers a refreshingly low-fi – and altogether entertaining – return to

1520-661: A mysterious giant animal starts destroying the city, until it is countered by a massive airstrike . It was based on a 1905 episode of McCay's comic strip series Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend . The 1925 film The Lost World (adapted from Arthur Conan Doyle 's 1912 novel of the same name ), featured many dinosaurs, including a brontosaurus that breaks loose in London and destroys Tower Bridge . The dinosaurs of The Lost World were animated by pioneering stop motion techniques by Willis H. O'Brien , who would some years later animate

1615-647: A neutral force of nature , but are more specifically preternatural creatures of divine power. They are not merely "big animals". Godzilla , for example, from its first appearance in the initial 1954 entry in the Godzilla franchise , has manifested all of these aspects. Other examples of kaiju include Rodan , Mothra , King Ghidorah , Anguirus , King Kong , Gamera , Gappa , Guilala , and Yonggary . There are also subcategories including Mecha Kaiju (Meka-Kaijū), featuring mechanical or cybernetic characters, including Moguera , Mechani-Kong , Mechagodzilla , and Gigan , which are an offshoot of kaiju . Likewise,

1710-508: A new splinter of the term, which quickly propagated through the popularity of superhero programs produced from the 1970s, forward. These kaijin possess rational thought and the power of speech, as do human beings. A successive kaijin menagerie, in diverse iterations, appeared over numerous series, most notably the Super Sentai programs premiering in 1975 (later carried over into Super Sentai ' s English iteration as Power Rangers in

1805-463: A producer for Toho Studios in Tokyo, needed a film to release after his previous project was halted. Seeing how well the Hollywood giant monster movie genre films King Kong and The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms had done in Japanese box offices, and himself a fan of these films, he set out to make a new movie based on them and created Godzilla . Tanaka aimed to combine Hollywood giant monster movies with

1900-481: A proposal for a potential sequel, stating, "I wrote a proposal during the filming of Shin Godzilla on February 3, 2016, labeled Sequel Shin Godzilla Memo . The primary working title for the project was Shin Godzilla's Counterattack ( シン・ゴジラの反撃 , Shin Gojira no Hangeki ) and with the assumption that Mr. Higuchi would direct, it was meant to be something like a Toho Champion Festival kaiju showdown. Since it

1995-407: A reboot to Toho's series. Minami Ichikawa would serve as the film's production manager and Taiji Ueda as the film's project leader. Ueda confirmed that the screenplay was in development and filming had been planned for a summer 2015 shoot. Toho would additionally put together a project team, known as "Godzilla Conference" or "Godzi-con", to formulate future projects. In March 2015, Toho announced that

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2090-641: A specific military requirement for an ultra-large bomb, but has a concept for a collection of very large penetrator and blast weapons: the so-called "Big BLU" collection, which includes the MOAB (Massive Ordnance Air Blast) bomb. Development of the MOP was performed at the Air Force Research Laboratory , Munitions Directorate, Eglin Air Force Base , Florida with design and testing work performed by Boeing . It

2185-497: A strong and borderline unintelligible accent and comports herself with torpid model languor at all times". Elizabeth Kerr from The Hollywood Reporter felt that Anno and Higuchi had done "the big guy justice" and "created a Godzilla for this era". While she felt that "all the telling (or reading) rather than showing reduces the story's overall impact" Kerr concluded that "there's an intangible quality to this Godzilla that Edwards (Emmerich doesn't count) never quite captured, and which

2280-417: A stunned man quietly regarding mountains of debris, something that could have been lifted straight out of television footage of the hardest-hit regions up north. Even the sight of the radioactive monster's massive tail swishing over residential streets evokes memories of the fallout sent wafting over towns and cities in the course of Fukushima Daiichi's meltdown." Robert Rath from Zam argued that Shin Godzilla

2375-670: A task force researching the creature. With high radiation readings from the creature's path, the task force realizes that it is energized by nuclear fission . The U.S. sends a special envoy, Kayoco Anne Patterson, who reveals that Goro Maki, a disgraced, anti-nuclear zoology professor, studied mutations caused by radioactive contamination, predicting the appearance of the creature. Maki was disbelieved by both American and Japanese scientific circles. The U.S. then prevented him from making his conclusions public. The abandoned yacht in Tokyo Bay belonged to Maki, who left his research notes, jumbled into

2470-483: Is a precision-guided , 30,000-pound (14,000 kg) " bunker buster " bomb used by the United States Air Force . The GBU-57 (Guided Bomb Unit-57) is substantially larger than the deepest-penetrating bunker busters previously available, the 5,000-pound (2,300 kg) GBU-28 and GBU-37 . Due to its size (6 meters length and a weight of over 12 tonnes ) it can only be carried by large bombers—for instance,

2565-626: Is a satire of Japanese politics, and likened the protagonist Rando Yaguchi to the Fukushima plant manager Masao Yoshida . William Tsutsui, author of Godzilla on My Mind , wrote in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that " Shin Godzilla leaves no doubt that the greatest threat to Japan comes not from without but from within, from a geriatric, fossilized government bureaucracy unable to act decisively or to stand up resolutely to foreign pressure." In his review for Forbes , Ollie Barder wrote that

2660-454: Is always welcome". Matt Schley from Otaku USA called the film "A match made in kaiju-heaven", and praised Anno's directing: "It's also a reminder, after years in the Evangelion reboot woods, that Anno is one of Japan's most unique directorial voices in either animation or live-action filmmaking." Though he felt the special effects weren't as impressive as 2014's Godzilla , Schley stated that

2755-603: Is attacked. In December 2014, Toho announced plans for a new domestic Godzilla film. Anno and Higuchi were announced as the directors in March 2015. Principal photography began in September 2015 and ended in October 2015. Inspiration for the film was drawn from the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami , and nuclear disaster in Japan. Production had a budget of ¥1.3 billion , with advertising bringing

2850-463: Is frozen solid. In the aftermath, scientists discover that Godzilla's isotope has a half-life of 20 days, and that Tokyo can soon be rebuilt. The international community agrees to cancel the nuclear attack on condition that, in the event of Godzilla's reawakening, an immediate thermonuclear strike will be executed. An unknown amount of time appears to have passed. The ending shot closes up on Godzilla's tail. Up close, humanoid creatures appear frozen in

2945-514: Is intended that the bomb will be deployed on the B-2 Spirit , and will be guided using GPS . It is also planned to be deployed on the B-21 Raider . In July 2007, Northrop Grumman announced a $ 2.5-million stealth-bomber refit contract. Each of the U.S. Air Force's B-2s is to be able to carry two 14-ton MOPs. In March 2007, an initial explosive test of the MOP took place in a tunnel belonging to

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3040-425: Is wounded with MOP "bunker-buster" bombs but responds with destructive atomic rays fired from its mouth and dorsal plates, destroying a helicopter carrying the prime minister, along with top government officials and incinerating large swaths of Tokyo. Depleted of its energy, Godzilla goes into hibernation. Yaguchi's team discovers that Godzilla's plates and blood work as a cooling system, theorizing that it could use

3135-480: The 2003 invasion of Iraq , analysis of sites that had been attacked with bunker buster bombs revealed poor penetration and inadequate levels of destruction. This renewed interest in the development of a larger bunker buster, and the MOP project was initiated by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to fulfill a long-standing Air Force requirement. The U.S. Air Force has not officially communicated

3230-604: The Air Force Global Strike Command started receiving the Massive Ordnance Penetrator and that the deliveries "will meet requirements for the current operational need". The Air Force had received delivery of 16 MOPs as of November 2011. In March 2012, there was an "operational stockpile" at Whiteman Air Force Base . In 2012, the Pentagon requested $ 82 million to develop greater penetration power for

3325-437: The B-2 Spirit . It is designed to accomplish a difficult, complicated mission of reaching and destroying an adversary's weapons of mass destruction located in well-protected facilities. In 2002, Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin were working on the development of a 30,000-pound (13,600 kg) earth-penetrating weapon, but funding and technical difficulties resulted in the development work being abandoned. Following

3420-558: The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. In October 2009, ABC News reported that the Pentagon had requested and obtained permission from the U.S. Congress to shift funding in order to accelerate the project. It was later announced that funding delays and enhancements to the planned test schedule meant the bomb would not be deployable until December 2010, six months later than

3515-536: The Godzilla vs. Evangelion: The Real 4D attraction. It ran until August 2019. In February 2022, Toho, Khara, Toei Company , and Tsuburaya Productions announced a collaborative project titled Shin Japan Heroes Universe for merchandise, special events and tie-ins. The project unites films that Anno had worked on that bear the katakana title "Shin" (シン), such as Shin Godzilla , Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon

3610-619: The Marvel Cinematic Universe , featuring Toho's monsters. Despite not producing a direct sequel, Toho released a trilogy of anime films: Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters (2017), Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle (2018), and Godzilla: The Planet Eater (2018); an anime series, Godzilla Singular Point (2021); and another live-action film, Godzilla Minus One (2023). In 2022, Hideaki Anno revealed that he wrote and submitted

3705-435: The franchise's Reiwa era . It is the first reboot of a tokusatsu series to be adapted by Anno and Higuchi, followed by Shin Ultraman (2022) and Shin Kamen Rider (2023). The film stars Hiroki Hasegawa , Yutaka Takenouchi , and Satomi Ishihara . In the film, politicians struggle with bureaucratic red tape in order to deal with the sudden appearance of a giant monster, known as Godzilla , that evolves whenever it

3800-462: The 1990s). This created yet another splinter, as the kaijin of Super Sentai have since evolved to feature unique forms and attributes (e.g., gigantism ), existing somewhere between kaijin and kaiju . Daikaijū ( 大怪獣 ) literally translates as "giant kaiju " or "great kaiju ". This hyperbolic term was used to denote greatness of the subject kaiju , the prefix dai- emphasizing great size, power, and/or status. The first known appearance of

3895-597: The 2016 San Diego Comic-Con, it was announced that Funimation would distribute the film for North America, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean for a late 2016 release as Shin Godzilla , instead of Godzilla: Resurgence , at the insistence of Toho. In early September, Funimation officially announced that the film was to be given a one-week limited release in the United States and Canada from October 11–18 on 440 screens, in Japanese with English subtitles, making it

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3990-606: The Birth of Japan 2016 . In the UK, Altitude Films screened the film at FrightFest in Glasgow on February 24, 2017. Altitude Films later dropped the film, with The Electric confirming in a Tweet: "the UK distributor Altitude have dropped it, and Toho aren't allowing any UK screenings at the mo [ sic ]." The UK theatrical rights were later acquired by Manga Entertainment for an August 10, 2017, release. A black-and-white version of

4085-622: The Blu-ray Standard Edition, totaling 675,402 DVD and Blu-ray sales in Japan. In North America, the film was released on Blu-ray, DVD and digital on August 1, 2017, by Funimation, which featured an English dub produced by Funimation. In the United States, the Blu-ray and DVD grossed $ 4.5 million in video sales. In the United Kingdom, the film was released on DVD and Blu-ray by Manga Entertainment on December 4, 2017. This release also included

4180-468: The CG Godzilla model. Mansai Nomura provided the motion capture performance for Godzilla. Principal photography began on September 1, 2015, with a large on-location film shoot at Kamata station in Tokyo. It commenced on a budget of ¥900 million , which later rose to ¥1.3 billion ; Anno noted that "originally, we couldn't make it with that budget". Toho independently invested the film's production, taking

4275-518: The Chinese Classic of Mountains and Seas . There are no traditional depictions of kaijū or kaijū -like creatures among the yōkai of Japanese folklore , although it is possible to find megafauna in their mythology (e.g., Japanese dragons ). After sakoku ended and Japan was opened to foreign relations in the mid-19th century, the term kaijū came to be used to express concepts from paleontology and legendary creatures from around

4370-600: The Funimation dub. The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK on December 4. The Blu-ray edition of the film ranked at no.32 on the UK Blu-ray chart for the week ending December 16. In Japan, Shin Godzilla earned ¥625 million ( $ 6.1 million ) on its opening weekend and was number one at the box office for that weekend, placing Finding Dory at second place and One Piece Film: Gold at third place, and earned 23% more than 2014's Godzilla when it opened in Japan. It

4465-534: The Godzilla creature serves "as an ambulatory tsunami, earthquake and nuclear reactor, leaving radioactive contamination in his wake". Roland Kelts, the author of Japanamerica , felt that the "mobilizing blue-suited civil servants and piles of broken planks and debris quite nakedly echo scenes of the aftermath of the great Tohoku earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster." Matt Alt of The New Yorker drew similar parallels with "the sight of blue-jumpsuited government spokesmen convening emergency press conferences ... [and]

4560-476: The Godzilla suit were leaked online. In late March 2016, it was announced that Toho's Godzilla and Anno's Evangelion intellectual properties would form a "maximum collaboration" for merchandise in April 2016. In mid-April 2016, Toho revealed the complete design of the new Godzilla and that it is a completely CG-generated character, as well as a new trailer, details regarding the principal and supporting characters, and that

4655-617: The Next Generation Penetrator. In 2011, Global Strike Command indicated that one of the objectives for the Next-Generation Bomber is for it to carry a weapon with the effects of the Massive Ordnance Penetrator. This would either be with the same weapon, or a smaller weapon that uses rocket power, not unlike the World War II British/American Disney bomb used, to reach sufficient speed to match

4750-655: The Year and Director of the Year . and a heigth of 389 feet/118.6 metres In 2016, the Japan Coast Guard investigates an abandoned yacht in Tokyo Bay , its boat is destroyed, and the Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line is flooded with blood. After seeing a viral video of the incident, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Rando Yaguchi believes it was caused by a living creature, which is confirmed as news reports reveal its tail emerging from

4845-422: The best Godzilla films ever made, but it's certainly not one of the worst by any stretch, either. Godzilla: Resurgence is a series of compelling ideas in a so-so Godzilla movie". Ollie Barder from Forbes was surprised at "how good" the film was, praising Anno's classic Gainax motifs, though he was not completely fond of Godzilla's new design; he felt that the "googly" eyes made Godzilla look silly but that

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4940-528: The best known Seijin in the genre can be found in the Ultra Series , such as Alien Baltan from Ultraman , a race of cicada-like aliens who have gone on to become one of the franchise's most enduring and recurring characters other than the Ultras themselves. Toho has produced a variety of kaiju films over the years (many of which feature Godzilla, Rodan, and Mothra), but other Japanese studios contributed to

5035-447: The collective subcategory Ultra-Kaiju (Urutora-Kaijū) is a separate strata of kaijū that specifically originates in the long-running Ultra Series franchise but can also be referred to simply by kaijū . As a noun , kaijū is an invariant , as both the singular and the plural expressions are identical. ( 怪人 lit. "Strange person") refers to distorted human beings or humanoid-like creatures. The origin of kaijin goes back to

5130-491: The design was more "organic and menacing" than previous incarnations and praised the film's depiction of Godzilla, stating, "I really liked the way Godzilla is handled in this new movie, as it feels a lot more like the God Soldier short that both Anno and Higuchi worked on" and concluded by stating that he "really enjoyed" the film and that it had a "far more coherent plot" than 2014's Godzilla . Marcus Goh from Yahoo felt that

5225-479: The early 20th Century Japanese literature, starting with Edogawa Rampo 's 1936 novel, The Fiend with Twenty Faces . The story introduced Edogawa's master detective, Kogoro Akechi 's arch-nemesis, the eponymous "Fiend", a mysterious master of disguise, whose real face was unknown; the Moriarty to Akechi's Sherlock . Catching the public's imagination, many such literary and movie (and later television) villains took on

5320-400: The estimates for both 2004's Godzilla: Final Wars and 2014's Godzilla . The film reached ¥5.3 billion ( $ 51.63 million ) a month after its release, topping the earnings for Anno's previous film Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo , which earned ¥5,267,373,350 . On its sixth weekend, the film climbed back to number two, topped by Your Name , with an earning of US$ 3.2 million , bringing

5415-471: The existing weapon. A 2013 report stated that the development had been a success, and B-2 integration testing began that year. In June 2010, USAF Lt. Gen. Philip M. Breedlove said that the Next Generation Penetrator (NGP) munition should be about a third the size of the Massive Ordnance Penetrator, so it could be carried by affordable aircraft. In December 2010, the USAF had a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for

5510-460: The film (for a while) as Godzilla: Resurgence . In December 2015, Toho unveiled the film's first teaser trailer and teaser poster revealing Toho's new Godzilla design and the film's July 29, 2016, release date. Chunichi Sports reported the size of the new Godzilla to be 118.5 metres (389 ft) tall, over 10 metres (33 ft) taller than Legendary's Godzilla . He is the second tallest live action Godzilla in history. In January 2016, images of

5605-535: The film depicted the Japanese government's "complex and corpulent bureaucratic ways ... unable to deal with a crisis in any kind of efficient or fluid way", noting that the government members use the hierarchical system to protect their positions at the expense of citizens' lives. According to Schilling, the government officials, Self-Defense Forces officers and others working to defeat Godzilla are portrayed as hardworking and intelligent, despite "some initial bumbling". Then- prime minister Shinzō Abe spoke positively of

5700-787: The film grossed $ 1.9 million during its limited 31 day run. Outside of Japan and North America, the film was released in a handful of International markets. In Taiwan, it grossed $ 264,235 ; in Australia it grossed $ 84,090 ; in New Zealand it grossed $ 13,892 ; in Thailand it grossed $ 322,061 ; in South Korea it grossed $ 36,915 ; and in Spain it grossed $ 8,031 . The film grossed $ 75.4 million in Japan and $ 79.3 million worldwide. Shin Godzilla received critical acclaim in Japan, while Western critics gave it

5795-573: The film has been planned for quite some time, stating, "It's been in the works a long time. It's not like it was produced just because of the Hollywood Godzilla". Principal photography wrapped at the end of October 2015, with special effects work scheduled for November 2015. Shiro Sagisu scored the film. The score features various remixes of "Decisive Battle" from Sagisu's Neon Genesis Evangelion score, and recycles several Akira Ifukube tracks. Anno had decided to use Ifukube's music while writing

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5890-424: The film was a better reimagining than 2014's Godzilla , though he criticized parts of Godzilla's design and the protagonists' plan to stop Godzilla. Goh gave the film a 3.1 score out of 5 and concluded that it "preserves the feel of Godzilla movies while updating it with modern responses". Jay Hawkinson from Bloody Disgusting called the film a "very good Godzilla movie that teeters on greatness". However, he felt

5985-597: The film will be released in IMAX, 4DX, and MX4D formats for its domestic release. For summer 2016, the Namja Town amusement park held special Godzilla cross-promotion activities. The park unveiled a new virtual reality game, the food court produced kaiju-inspired food dishes, and a Godzilla foot on display as though it had crashed through the roof of the attached Sunshine City Alpa shopping center. Sports equipment manufacturer Reebok released limited-edition Godzilla sneakers featuring

6080-506: The film would be co-directed by Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi (who both collaborated on the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion ), in addition to Anno writing the screenplay and Higuchi directing the film's special effects. In addition, Toho announced that the film would begin filming in the fall of 2015 set for a summer 2016 release. Promotional artwork of the new Godzilla's footprint was also released, with Toho confirming that their new Godzilla would surpass Legendary Pictures' Godzilla as

6175-622: The film's CG "gets the job done, though there are a couple questionable shots" and concluded by stating that "Hideaki Anno has achieved a successful resurgence for both the Big G and himself". In July 2017, while attending the American fan convention G-Fest , Higuchi confirmed that Toho could not produce another Godzilla film until after 2020. This was due to Toho's contract with Legendary Entertainment , who were producing their own Godzilla films , that restricts Toho from releasing their Godzilla films in

6270-568: The film's drama "didn't always work" and that some of the English delivery felt "canned and often corny", particularly from Ishihara's character. Hawkinson praised the film's battle-scenes, Shiro Sagisu's score, and the film's homages to the franchise, and concluded that " Shin Godzilla may be a reboot sans the rubber suit we've grown to love but it's unquestionably Godzilla". Guardian chief film critic Peter Bradshaw found Ishihara "slightly absurd" as an American "who bafflingly speaks English only with

6365-612: The film's pro-nationalist themes, stating, "I think that [Godzilla's] popularity is rooted, the unwavering support that the public has for the Self-Defense Forces." In December 2014, Toho announced plans for a new Godzilla film for a 2016 release, stating, "This is very good timing after the success of the American version this year: if not now, then when? The licensing contract we have with Legendary places no restrictions on us making domestic versions." The new film would have no ties to Legendary's MonsterVerse and would serve as

6460-473: The film's reality vs. idealism themes, calling it a "world class" Godzilla film. Cinema Today called the film a "thrilling experience" and a "masterpiece", feeling that the film was a return to form similar to 2004's Dawn of the Dead . Kazuo Ozaki from Eiga.com praised the film as well, stating, "Hollywood, even with all its money, can't approach this kind of perfection" while Koichi Irikura of Cinema Today called it

6555-521: The film's total budget to ¥2.19 billion . Shin Godzilla was theatrically released on July 29, 2016, it received critical acclaim from Japanese critics and mixed reviews from Western critics. The film grossed $ 79 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing live-action Japanese film of 2016 and was the highest-grossing Japanese-produced Godzilla film in the franchise, until Godzilla Minus One surpassed it in 2023. It received 11 Japan Academy Prize nominations and won seven, including Picture of

6650-427: The film's total domestic gross to $ 60 million from 4.1 million admissions. On September 4, 2016, the film has grossed $ 58.18 million . After exiting the top ten in late September, the film has grossed nearly $ 78 million from 5.6 million admissions. Shin Godzilla became the highest grossing live-action Japanese film for 2016, and the second highest grossing film in Japan for the year. In the United States and Canada,

6745-564: The film, titled Shin Godzilla: Orthochromatic ( シン・ゴジラ：オルソ , Shin Gojira: Oruso ) , premiered at Ikebukuro Humax Cinemas in Tokyo on October 27, 2023 as part of the special theatrical screenings of four Godzilla films selected by Takashi Yamazaki in commemoration of the release of Godzilla Minus One . This version was conceived by Anno with Higuchi and associate director Katsuro Onoue supervising its production. The film

6840-663: The first Japanese Godzilla film to receive a theatrical North American release since Godzilla 2000 . Funimation hosted two North American premieres for the film, one premiere on October 3 in Los Angeles and the other on October 5 in New York. Due to popular demand, Funimation extended the film's North American theatrical run with encore screenings for October 22 and select theaters offering daily screenings through October 27. That same month, Indonesian Film Censorship Board listed and registered both Shin Godzilla and Doraemon: Nobita and

6935-482: The genre by producing films and shows of their own: Daiei Film ( Kadokawa Pictures ), Tsuburaya Productions , and Shochiku and Nikkatsu Studios. Eiji Tsuburaya , who was in charge of the special effects for Godzilla , developed a technique to animate the kaiju that became known colloquially as " suitmation ". Where Western monster movies often used stop motion to animate the monsters, Tsubaraya decided to attempt to create suits, called " creature suits ", for

7030-461: The giant gorilla-like creature breaking loose in New York City in the 1933 film King Kong . The enormous success of King Kong can be seen as the definitive breakthrough of monster movies . This influential achievement of King Kong paved the way for the emergence of the giant monster genre, serving as a blueprint for future kaiju productions. Its success reverberated in the film industry, leaving

7125-643: The interim government has little faith. Yaguchi's team manages to decipher Goro Maki's encoded research using origami. The team adjusts its plan and procures the means to conduct its deep-freeze plan with international support. Hours before the planned nuclear attack, Japan enacts the deep-freeze plan. Godzilla is provoked into expending its atomic breath and energy against Predator and Reaper drones. The team then detonates nearby buildings and sends unmanned trains loaded with explosives toward Godzilla's feet, subduing it, and enabling tankers full of coagulant to inject it into Godzilla's mouth. Many are killed, but Godzilla

7220-522: The large Godzilla head peering over, 118.5 metres in length, the same distance as the height of Godzilla. In July 2016, Toho announced that the film had been sold to 100 territories (including Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America) in 19 days after opening to foreign sales and will be released in Taiwan on August 12, the Philippines on August 24, Hong Kong and Macao on August 25, and Thailand on September 8. At

7315-522: The mantle of kaijin . To be clear, kaijin is not an offshoot of kaiju . The first-ever kaijin that appeared on film was The Great Buddha Arrival a lost film, made in 1934. After the Pacific War , the term was modernized when it was adopted to describe the bizarre, genetically engineered and cybernetically enhanced evil humanoid spawn conceived for the Kamen Rider Series in 1971. This created

7410-453: The monster's classic creature-feature roots." On Metacritic , the film has a score of 67 out of 100 based on 14 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Japanese pop culture site RO65 called the film a "masterpiece of unprecedented filmmaking", and felt that the film retains a "strong respect for the fundamental message within Godzilla". Oricon Style praised directors Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi for their realistic approach and

7505-508: The ocean. Shortly thereafter, the creature moves inland, crawling through the Kamata district and the Shinagawa area of Tokyo , leaving a path of death and destruction during a disorganized and chaotic evacuation. The creature quickly evolves into a bipedal form but overheats and returns to the sea. The government officials focus on military strategy and civilian safety; Yaguchi is put in charge of

7600-464: The offer, 'It's impossible. Even to begin work on the next Eva is impossible.'" However, Toho's sincerity and his longtime friend and co-director, Shinji Higuchi, eventually convinced him to accept the offer in March 2013. Anno had also refused the offer due to a lack of confidence, stating, "I refused [the offer] since I didn't have confidence that I could exceed the first film or come close to equaling it. But I thought that if I were to come close even

7695-535: The original availability date. The project has had at least one successful Flight Test MOP launch. In April 2011, the USAF ordered eight MOPs plus supporting equipment, for $ 28 million. In September 2011, the Air Force took delivery of 20 bombs, designed to be delivered by the B-2 bomber. In February 2012, Congress approved $ 81.6 million to further develop and improve the weapon. In November 2011, Bloomberg reported that

7790-552: The original film is now lost, stills of the film have survived, and it is one of the earliest examples of a kaiju film in Japanese cinematic history. The 1934 film presumably influenced the production of the Ultraman franchise. Ray Bradbury 's short story published in the Saturday Evening Post, June 23, 1951 " The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms " served as the basis for the film The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953), featuring

7885-468: The press notes, except where cited otherwise. Whereas the original Godzilla film was conceived as a metaphor for the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the dangers of nuclear weapons , Shin Godzilla drew inspiration from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami . Many critics noted similarities to those events. Mark Schilling of The Japan Times wrote that

7980-830: The process of emerging. The film features several cameos and supporting appearances, including Kengo Kora , Ren Osugi , Akira Emoto , Kimiko Yo , Jun Kunimura , Mikako Ichikawa , Pierre Taki , Takumi Saito , Keisuke Koide , Arata Furuta , Sei Hiraizumi , Kenichi Yajima , Tetsu Watanabe , Ken Mitsuishi , Kyūsaku Shimada , Kanji Tsuda , Issei Takahashi , Shinya Tsukamoto , Kazuo Hara , Isshin Inudo , Akira Ogata , Shingo Tsurumi , Suzuki Matsuo , Kreva , Katsuhiko Yokomitsu , and Atsuko Maeda . Mansai Nomura portrayed Godzilla through motion capture. Jun Kunimura previously appeared in Godzilla: Final Wars . Akira Emoto appeared in Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla . Cast taken from

8075-549: The re-emerged Japanese fears of atomic weapons that arose from the Daigo Fukuryū Maru fishing boat incident; and so he put a team together and created the concept of a giant radioactive creature emerging from the depths of the ocean, a creature that would become the monster Godzilla. Godzilla initially had commercial success in Japan, inspiring other kaiju movies. The term kaijū translates literally as "strange beast". Kaiju can be antagonistic , protagonistic , or

8170-431: The same year as Legendary's Godzilla films; Legendary released Godzilla: King of the Monsters in 2019, originally slated for 2018, and Godzilla vs. Kong in 2021, originally slated for 2020. At the time, Higuchi noted that Legendary's contract was effective until 2020. In May 2018, Toho announced that it would not make a sequel to Shin Godzilla , but expressed interest in a potential shared universe series, akin to

8265-479: The screenplay and attempted to adapt the old Ifukube tracks to modern stereo settings but the task proved too daunting and eventually settled on using the mono mixes instead. The soundtrack was released on July 30, 2016, and sold 8,427 copies in 2 weeks. In November 2015, without any prior announcement, Toho screened a promo reel at the American Film Market for a potential sale for overseas markets, marketing

8360-463: The tallest incarnation to date. Toho had approached Anno in January 2013 to direct the reboot but Anno initially declined due to falling into depression after completing Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo , stating, "A representative from Toho contacted me directly, saying, 'We'd like to direct a new Godzilla film.' At the time, I was still recovering from EVA 3.0, and right on the spot, flatly refused

8455-763: The term daikaiju in the 20th Century was in the publicity materials for the original 1954 release of Godzilla . Specifically, in the subtitle on the original movie poster, Suibaku Daikaiju Eiga ( 水爆大怪獣映画 ), lit. "H-Bomb Giant Monster Movie". Gamera, the Giant Monster , the first film of the Gamera franchise in 1965, also utilized the term where the Japanese title of the film is Daikaijū Gamera ( 大怪獣ガメラ ). Seijin ( 星人 lit. "star people"), appears within Japanese words for extraterrestrial aliens, such as Kaseijin ( 火星人 ), which means " Martian ". Aliens can also be called uchūjin ( 宇宙人 ) which means "spacemen". Among

8550-531: The world. For example, the extinct Ceratosaurus -like cryptid featured in The Monster of "Partridge Creek" (1908) by French writer Georges Dupuy was referred to as kaijū . It is worthy to note that in the Meiji era , Jules Verne ’s works were introduced to the Japanese public, achieving great success around 1890. Genre elements were present at the end of Winsor McCay 's 1921 animated short The Pet in which

8645-400: Was concocted to be released in 2018, the shortest time possible for a domestic-made Godzilla film to be released, it was a rough draft for people who wouldn't like Shin Godzilla , an idea that wouldn't cost too much or take too long to create. I believed that it would be a bad idea to let it go to waste so I gave the proposal, draft, and visuals, as a gift to Mr. Higuchi and Toho, but since it

8740-537: Was later screened at seven select Japanese theaters on October 28 and 29. On March 6, 2024, it was announced the black-and-white version would be released on DVD and Blu-Ray on May 1, 2024. In Japan, Shin Godzilla was released on DVD and Blu-ray by Toho on March 22, 2017. The film's Japan home video release sold 520,000 units for the DVD version, 100,000 units for the Blu-ray Special Edition, and 55,402 units for

8835-424: Was more than triple the first weekend's gross of 2004's Godzilla: Final Wars , the previous Toho film in the series, which in the end grossed $ 12.3 million . The film remained at number one during its second weekend and was projected to finish at $ 40 million domestically. The film dropped to second place during its third weekend, topped by The Secret Life of Pets , earning $ 33.5 million after 17 days, topping

8930-415: Was premature or whatever, among other reasons, after the film's release the discussion ended. While I did feel it was a waste, it's not something I could help since Toho decides what gets made." In 2016, Toho and Khara, Inc. collaborated on Godzilla vs. Evangelion , a cross-over line of merchandise uniting Shin Godzilla and Anno's Neon Genesis Evangelion . In May 2019, Universal Studios Japan opened

9025-409: Was produced but went unused after Toho decided to create a completely CG Godzilla. VFX supervisor and co-editor Atsuki Satō stated, "CG production had already been determined when I began participating. In the end, it was the best option to allow quick edits as creative visions changed and produced a high quality film." A colorless maquette was built for CG animators to use as a reference when rendering

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