The Kyūshū J7W Shinden (震電, "Magnificent Lightning") is a World War II Japanese propeller-driven prototype fighter plane with wings at the rear of the fuselage, a nose-mounted canard, and a pusher engine. Developed by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) as a short-range, land-based interceptor, the J7W was a response to Boeing B-29 Superfortress raids on the Japanese home islands. For interception missions, the J7W was to be armed with four forward-firing 30 mm type 5 cannons in the nose. The Shinden was expected to be a highly maneuverable interceptor, but only two prototypes were finished before the end of the war. A jet engine-powered version was considered, but never even reached the drawing board.
Sadly they never made it in time before the B-29s nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Too little too late. I like how its kind of a metaphor that Shinden looks like an opposite facing A6M zero that usually kamikaze.
After we saw Godzilla minus 1 my friend asked me if that playing could be real I said it could... Thanks for the information on this fascinating airplane.
It was the first time I'd seen a Godzilla movie and had no sympathy for him. When he destroyed Ginza, and Noriko was swept way, I said to myself, "I hope they *atomize* him."
@@greenmonsterprod That's my biggest problem with the film: Godzilla garners no sympathy whatsoever. The whole point of the original "Godzilla" movie was that Godzilla was a victim of atomic bombs too. It resonated with the Japanese so much that many of them cried when he died at the end of that first movie (yes, the first one!). And later films expounded that Godzilla was a gentle creature before being transformed into a monster. In this movie, Godzilla is a victim of atomic bombs in the same way that Freddy Krueger is a victim of vigilante justice. He was an asshole before the atom bomb and he became a bigger one after it.
@@ConstantineFurman That's just you being autistic. The original message of the film is largely irrelevant in the modern day; the film uses Godzilla as a metaphor for war itself.
@@ConstantineFurman They salute Godzilla at the end, though. He's like a cursed spirit of rage and pain and destruction that NEEDS to be destroyed, but the film does have a moment to reflect on that. Just because it wasn't outright said in the dialogue doesn't mean it wasn't present.
@@ConstantineFurmandon't forget it was not just Gōjira that was whacked, Dr Serizawa committed Hara Kiri so to speak so nobody got his Oxygen Destroyah to weaponize
The whole "Dying for your country" thing was a mind-set that originated with the Samurai, but as this movie shows, there were those in Japan who were starting to refuse to follow that mind-set. People no longer wanted to die just because their country demanded it, they wanted to live because they had something to live for, such as families, dreams, and aspirations.
Just an aside: Saburo Sakai was Japan's highest scoring ace to survive the war. In his biography, he said the first thing to come out of his mouth when he heard the military was organizing kamikaze attacks was basically, "That's stupid. What's that going to accomplish other than getting men killed for nothing?"
Saw this movie four times 2x in color and two times in black and white... I've never done that for a movie. They made you care about the humans and Godzilla movie they finally did it. But the best part was the soundtrack toho put in the original music and it was priceless.
Love this film, i like they start him off as Godzillasaurus on the island then after the bomb he mutates into full Gojira and back to his original height.
Yes! So few people talk about this - they see it, but it's like no-one shows that plot element any love. The fact that he's a huge, non-atomic, sea monster is a glorious throwback to 'Beast From 20,000 Fathoms' - Godzilla's spiritual movie ancestor - and it *also* works with the core human drama of Koichi's survivor guilt, because I think his plane's 20mm gun *could* actually have killed the monster in his 'natural' form. Once Bikini happened and Godzilla mutated, that window closed forever. A huge and excellent plot point.
The title, according to the director, has multiple meanings, explicitly referring to how Godzilla's destruction changed Japan's position from a "post-war zero situation" to a "minus". When explaining other possible reasons for the title, Yamazaki said that the film takes place before the original 1954 Godzilla film and that it emphasizes the theme of loss throughout.
Great movie! In reference to the subject of fate. I’m reminded of the quote “Accepting fate is what your mind tells you when you take your hands off the wheel of life”
Just before I went to the cinema to see this..I had just returned from a two week trip to Japan (from UK)..During the flight I watched a movie called "Dr Coto's Clinic" (Japanese movie)..and some of the actors from that movie also appear in this movie!...I was in Japan to see my favourite band LIVE in Yokohama...I had also flown out to Japan earlier in the year to see them LIVE in Tokyo during a 3 week trip!.....Japan is an amazing country..I truely hope to return someday... "Dr Coto's Clinic" movie is based on a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takatoshi Yamada. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Young Sunday from 2000 until the magazine's demise in 2008.
So glad I chose to watch this at the cinema. It was a really hot day and I needed a reason to stay inside a place with air con. But the movie was awesome.
This film harkens back to some of the movies in all eras of Godzilla. But certain things are common among all of them. In the 1970s we had something called the Godzillasaurus. This character would show up once again in the 1991 film Godzilla versus king Ghidrah. Godzillasaurus is a dinosaur that did not go extinct and remained on Edo island until the castle bravo test forced to evolve into the monster that we know today. Sometimes Godzilla was already a kaiju sleeping for untold eons until it was awakened by that very test. Here we can assume that the Godzillasaurus evolved alongside other prehistoric animals, competing for food and territory. Which would explain his scars. Edo island is another common piece of Godzilla lore dating all the way back to the original 1954 classic. Sometimes Edo island is very simulated as Okinawa, but left undisturbed for…ever. Sometimes Edo island is also known as monster Island and it’s just the place we’re all kaiju sorta gather. It has also been confused with skull island on more than one occasion sometimes they are two different islands, sometimes they’re the same island.
Odo Island is the island where Gojira (Godzilla) first appears back in the first Godzilla movie, and the echo sound at the of Godzilla's roar is from wax pulled along cello strings
Great reaction as always! Explanation on Minus 1 meaning. After the war Japan was put into a state of zero. Having to rebuild from scratch. Then introduce Godzilla, putting japan into the state of -1.
Literally is godzilla cells The director said that exactly XD Theories are shes gonna become biollante in the sequel Either that or shes deeply connected to godzilla Minus one basically means that the country is at a point where it is worse than thought possible. Acter world war 2 japan was at zero. The worst they could possibly be, filled with death and destruction and fire. Godzillas appearence put them below rock bottom, the icong on the shit cake that caused them to fall below what was thought possible
Oppenheimer is a self-indulgent slog. Such a shame since it's such an interesting story. G-1 is more grounded and relatable because Takashi Yamazaki clearly has no inflated ego to coddle.
@@RealBLAlley I’m not going to bash Oppenheimer. Like I said, very good movie. But I will agree with you and restate what I said, GODZILLA Minus One SHOULD have been awarded Best Film of 2023. Because it is.
@@dustinhogle3844 Nor should you if you feel it doesn't deserve such criticism. I do, hence _my_ criticism. Contrary to the majority of online comments, we're allowed to have varying opinions.
The film is called Minus One because post World War II left Japan in ruins. They had to start all over again from ground Zero. Then Godzilla shows up and wrecks even more havoc. Sending them from Zero to Minus One! Even further back than before! -OG
Minus One - is a referance to the fact they call the end of WW2 (after the x2 nukes) was called year zero ... They first see GZA one year before the end of WW2, so -1 ...
Hello guys!! Ground zero is known as the area of greatest devastation in a disaster, the -1 Minus One is directly massive destruction, a state superior to the most absolute devastation, from which it is impossible to rise.
Fun facts about this movie the title is a portmanteau of how things could go bad to worse post nuke Japan aka -1. However the most important fun fact is that this is the official Prequel to Shin Gojira.
@MarcMcKenzie-qb6or oh ya I had to really hold back in tears so hard from watching that scene. Then seeing her cry oh mannnnnn that was hella tough to see. Imagine you as a little kid and someone telling you that your mom/dad is gonna go away for awhile when the truth is that either one of them has been killed, it's the worst
I was thinking in director's misdirection, being a Kamikaze pilot I thought that going to do and be a meaningful sacrifice to redeem himself for a greater reason.
There is a more plausible explanation. Yamasaki had made another film dealing with kamikaze pilots and PTSD called "Eternal Zero". Zero is the name of the WW2 kamikaze plane.
The -1 is because of a book called Tokyo Year Zero in which the year after the war was called "Year Zero" because Tokyo was so devastated it had to start over from zero. The minus one is a play on that as in if things weren't bad enough with Tokyo being taken to zero by the war, Godzilla came and knocked them further back to -1.
Me too man...was pretty cool seeing the CGI catch up with them... practical effects will always be King but it's been cool being alive to watch the progression..it's pretty badass😅🤘🔥🤘..just like with the comic books.. ironman,, wolverine etc...super cool..the kids today are too stupid to get it😅✌️
@@Dudeamis17 Why not Raids Again? It's a lot of fun and has some great aerial scenes. Minus One also pays homage to it, as well, along with King Kong vs Godzilla and subsequent films like GMK.
Seeing the Shinden turn up, after having been treated to an alternative fate for the (surrendered in 1945) Takao... I mean, the movie just gives so much to the viewer. It's a delight, for all the heartbreak of the screenplay.
The original Shinden design was from a German prototype. The Japanese made a few design changes but the frame is basically the same. The Germans were allied with Japan and shared some of their aircraft designs. Both aircraft were too late to be used in the war so they never went into production.
@@BryanH63 I walked out of the Imax theater seeing a lot of grown ups wiping their faces, lol, and I too was one of them. They finally made one that REALLY made you feel for the human characters.
For real. I had to end my relationship with my partner, she is half Japanese, and we were supposed t9 see this movie together. We never did but, I saw this movie several times in theatres and cried EVERY single time. If you were to tell me there would be a Godzilla movie that made people cry and won an Oscar, I'd say "not in my lifetime."
Ryunosuke Kamiki Actor absolutely killed it in this movie, defiantly put everything he had in this role. HIs performance brought tears to my eyes in theaters during the atomic breath scene
This is one of the best Godzilla movies I have ever seen. I saw this movie 3 times in the theater. The first two times I saw it with my older brothers, and the third time me and my oldest brother finally got our parents to go see it, and they loved it. Definitely the best human story out of any movie in the Godzilla franchise. The visual effects and special effects are awesome, especially for a budget of less than 15 million U.S. dollars. The acting is beautiful. I will say, after watching this movie in the theater in its original Japanese audio, this movie does not need an English dub because of how good the acting is. The music is also beautiful. Hearing the classic Godzilla music along with the original music made me close to shedding tears of nostalgia. And to top it all off, this was the best early Christmas present to ever get last year leading up to Christmas. Thank you to everyone involved in the making of Godzilla Minus One. You guys did a fantastic job 👍👍.
25:28~ Noriko is killed by Godzilla's heat rays, and when Shikishima is screaming and crying, black rain begins to fall. This is because black rain falls after a nuclear bomb explodes.
It's called Minus One cause Japan was at "zero" after the war, Godzilla puts the still recovering Japan into the negatives. It's also called Minus One because it's taking place in a time period (the 40s) before the first movie (the 50s). So in a way it's kind of like a spiritual prequel.
@@Trilaan It's a weird case of being it's own continuity but drawing enough from the original to be a spiritual remake like Shin and just like Shin being set in a different time period. So it's like a spiritual remake and spiritual prequel at the same time.
I wouldn't say Japan was at 0 after the war. It was still in better state than Germany which had been leveled. And keep in mind that it was easy for the Japanse to rebuild because of their architecture and of course work ethic.
Two of the movie's star Kamiki Ryunosuke(who played the main character Koichi) and Munetaka Aoki(Sosaku the plane engineer) also appeared in the Rurouni Kenshin movies with Kamiki appearing in the second to fourth movies as the boy-ish looking but cunning swordsman Sojiro and Munetaka as Kenshin's sidekick Sanosuke in all the movies. Both are really great actors. I would recommend everyone to check out the excellent Rurouni Kenshin movies immediately for their great performance there too.
Personally, I don’t think the effects are really any more impressive than anything you see in the Monsterverse or Jurassic World, and think that winning the award for VFX was an insult; not only to other films that could lay a more legitimate claim, but also to this film, because it’s like it was decided to give it the easiest award possible just so they wouldn’t have to give this foreign film about a giant monster any real recognition. This movie is so much more than a mere Godzilla movie, in the way people think about Godzilla. It honestly deserved to win best picture, or best director, or best screenplay, or something legitimate. VFX was an easy pick to avoid giving the movie its true credit and it’s an offense.
@@TeenTyrant I think we need to go back to suits. CGI does not impress me anymore, I play games all the time so now CGI looks like video game characters who've been photoshopped into a live action movie. My eyes aren't fooled anymore. Still a great movie. And yeah, I feel like this movie should have won awards for story and actors, not sfx.
@@TeenTyrant Thing is the average Monsterverse and Jurassic World film costs around $200 million to make, Minus One had a budget of under $15 million, that's why the VFX rightfully deserve recognition, I agree that it's also so much more than just the effects and definitely deserved more awards though.
@@livingcorpse5664 That's nonsense. Visual effects are only obvious when they are done poorly or depict something that isn't real. You don't even notice 90% of the CG that exists in films and TV.
23:11 He's that mad because they dropped a nuke on him at Bikini Atoll, which also caused him to mutate. In other continuities they often add things like it destroyed his home lair or after his mutation, he's in constant pain. Often, the real answer is that he's a stand-in for something else like fear of nuclear weapons, or the unstoppable power of a force of nature, or even the spirits of angry WWII soldiers. Then there are the dozens of movies that were made mostly for kids where he's practically a super hero, and the latest American MonsterVerse films that follow that idea.
Yeah ,I remember hearing over the years that his mutation causes him pain but his own cellular regeneration won't let him succumb to the pain and injury.
Such a fantastic film. It's incredibly satisfying as a Godzilla movie, but just as much so as a period drama exploring post-war trauma and survivor's guilt. This is what we get when filmmakers don't assume the entire audience are brain-dead morons and actually apply real effort. They actually address the questions we have as the audience, and even small details received attention. For example, on the bomb they install in the Shinden Fighter you can see where they had to remove the fins with a cutting torch to make it fit. Lazy Hollywood would have had a bomb that magically fit perfectly in a space made for it. They also had a budget 1/20th of Hollywood films because they don't stupidly pay their lead actor a small fortune for no box office gain nor pay 49 producers who had nothing to do with the film.
The IJN Takao was the last Japanese heavy cruiser to survive the war. She was moared in Singapore waiting to be scrapped. In this reality, she was pressed back into service where she met her end facing Gorjira.
I think I remember that one of the first ejection seats was a German design for one of the first jets they had but they never implemented them on mass. I didn't expected this movie to be that emotional and well acted, I also needed a lot of anti cry fluid ❤
When Takashi Yamazaki met Steven Spielberg at the Oscars he tweeted, "I've met GOD. What am I going to do with all this? I'm seriously crying. And Spielberg saw GMO 3 times. He told me he liked the characters in the film. I gave him a Godzilla figure, and he was so happy he took it..." This movie for me it top tier, easily the best Godzilla movie. And not just a great Godzilla movie but a great movie. Even if you take Godzilla out you have a gripping movie about loss, guilt, PTSD, trying to piece together a life and a makeshift family out of the rubble of post-WWII Japan. It is a great movie and having Godzilla in it is the whipped cream and cherry on top.
"Live." Truly powerful and a testiment to how well they developed the characters in this film. Made me cry grown man tears in the theatre when they did the callback to that after all Koichi had battled through.
Nice! I can't wait! This was my favorite film from 2023. I took my 11 year old to go see it and we both cried. It was great. Surprisingly, Godzilla X Kong was really good too, but in a totally different way.
I hadn't been to a theater since Deadpool 2 until this movie, & so far it's the only movie I've gone to the theater more than once to see, saw it 3 times.
This took the top spot(beating out Across The Spider-Verse) as my favorite movie of 2023. As a godzilla fan since I was 4(I was born 1990) they actually made me afraid of him(Godzilla). I watched this movie 4 times in the theatres in December and it was money well spent. Thanks so much for the upload. Mrs Movies is a boss Edit: 25:29 i thought the same thing too - if the american oscars werent so uptight(this movie won Best Visual Effects obvy) he should have been nominated. This Godzilla movie actually gave us an amazing character and the actors performance was far better than any of the Best actor nominess this year.
I think the budget for this was like $15M, and it puts $200M - $300M US movies to shame. Also, that breath weapon going off in the theater was visceral.
@@ConstantineFurman Lots of labor on minitures. Some CGI. With Hesei and Melenium. With Minus One the director was on special effects as well. That saves money. You also have to factor in the yin and Japan's small market. If I had to guess they save a lot of money having everything right on paper before a single special effect is rendered. In Hollywood they do 10 rewrites, 40 redesigns. Always tweeking because it wasn't right in the first place. It gets expensive fast.
The official budget figure hasn't been released - apparently Japanese studios tend to be pretty cagey about giving budget figures. US$10-15 million is the estimate, but I think that's just on effects - the budget figures given in Hollywood are usually overall, you'd have to dig further to get breakdown by department.
@@dartigens10 That's not true at all. It's very easy to find budgets from Japanese studios. It helps a lot to know Japanese. No, it's not "just the effects." 10-15 mil, WHATEVER it is, is for the whole movie.
I read somewhere that the Minus One referred to the fact that after the war Japan was essentially at rock bottom, or Zero in terms of morale,and having to rebuild, hence Godzilla beating them down still further meant the nation was now at Minus One in terms of morale.
Mrs Movies sure wasn't expecting this kind of Godzilla movie. The human storyline was good. But. Watching Godzilla going full on bat shit crazy was just epic.
Love it when they make Godzilla a villain. Much better when Godzilla is the bad guy. Best Godzilla movie ever IMO. Ten times better than New Empire. I don't like Hollywood's Yeaghar style monsters
Operation Crossroads, the nuclear tests off Bikini Atoll mentioned in this work, were actually conducted in 1946 after the U.S. military dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. This was also the “cause of the birth of Godzilla” in the first “Godzilla” film, and I think that the Japanese people of that time were partly substituting Godzilla for the nuclear threat that might still persist. In addition to about 70 naval vessels, 200 pigs, 60 guinea pigs, 204 goats, 5,000 rats, 200 mice, and other animals were also sacrificed in this operation. This is also where the idea of Gojira, in which nuclear effects can cause fatal changes in living organisms, may have originated. Recent monster-verse films and other films state that “Operation Crossroads was intended to defeat Godzilla,” but I feel that this takes out the original element of Godzilla as a warning against nuclear weapons testing. Therefore, the depiction of Operation Crossroads in “Godzilla Minus One” should be seen as similar to the original version. (P.S. I always look forward to your videos from Japan! Thanks again for all the great videos!)
24:10 I watched this in IMAX when it first came out. I'll never forget this moment. The whole theater was enjoying finally seeing Godzilla doing what he does best, destroying stuff. There were some cheers because we were finally about to see this version of his atomic breath. The moment it EXPLODED, the entire theater had the same reaction you two did. The fact that this version is quite literally a nuclear explosion shocked us all into silence. Not a single sound came out of the entire audience until the next scene. That moment was the single most impactful thing I've ever experienced from a Godzilla movie. A friend of mine got to see this movie in Japan a month before the US premiere. He told me several audience members cried at this scene.
The thing on her neck were G cells which granted Noriko the ability to heal fast and survive Godzilla's heat ray. The "Minus One" also refers to Japan's defeat in The War. There's a say that Japan was taken back to "Zero", now with Godzilla wreaking havoc in a Japan that was just rebuilding it has taken them even further back: Minus One.
@@mcentepede His eye melted out of his socket! His face is burned every time he uses his atomic breath! Just cause he feeds off radiation doesn't mean he isn't being hurt by the explosions and heat!
@@Dark_Trap998 My head canon with MV Goji (and really all Gojis) is nukes do damage him but the radiation speeds up his healing factor so it's a moot point.
Have you ever seen a blob fish? That’s not what they look like what happens is that deep sea fish and when they brought up too quickly, they blow up like balloons and die.
23:04 “Why is he so mad?” Ah, the old nature vs nurture question. It’s in his nature to be mad, but his nurture has so far been bullets, mines, bombs, shells, and a whole goddamn nuke. All things considered he’s a remarkably well-adjusted giant horrifying monster. He could’ve made a scene.
Y'all should check out takashi yamazaki other movies like his sunset on third Street trilogy and The Great War of Archimedes. They're amazing. Also fun fact two movie's were responsible for the creation of this movie, Gojira 1954 and GMK 2001
Shinden (Shaking Thunder) is designed and made by soley Japanese. Germany had a more advanced jet engine at that time. While Shinden is designed to replace its engine to jet engine easily for future, it still got propeller engine at that time. Japanese jet engine based plane at that time could only fly only for 3 min. So it specifically used for Kamikaze attack. In this movie, Japan got together every technology available back then to defeat Godzilla. For instance, the tanks which attacked Godzilla at Ginza looked very ordinary and boring, but those are the ones which were named Type-4 tanks, newly developed tanks to equip relatively large canon.There are a lot more stories behind technolgies appeared in this movie. Director Yamazaki is a pretty good director to satisfy military Otaku, too. : )
There is a likely inspired plane of similar design in the animated series "Macross" (aka "Robotech") that has both propeller and jet propulsion for momentary speed boosts. Incidentally it too involves rowdy giants. ;) I really hope they don't mess up that live action version, should it ever actually get made.
@@grabtharshammer Thanks. I searched RUclips and found the one. So now I convinced Germany had more advanced and challenging idea. : ) The only design JPN could import from Germany was Type-4 (飛燕: Flying sparrow). Germany was too far back then.
I knew Godzilla had a healing factor off and on over the yeard but when I saw his regeneration in this I was flat out, "OH MAN THAT IS SOME DBZ LEVELS OF REGENERATION RIGHT THERE. You guys are screwed."
This was the first Godzilla movie where I enjoyed the 'B' plot (life in postwar Japan) as an equal story to the 'A' plot. Both were great, I was every interested in the stories occurring in its entirety. Now my top three are Godzilla Minus 1, Shin Godzilla and the original without Raymond Burr.
@@Perktube1 yeah, the original from 1962. It's an instrumental without the vocals, but you be the judge m.ruclips.net/video/jq5WSQy1ocQ/видео.html&pp=ygUha2luZyBrb25nIHZzIGdvZHppbGxhIDE5NjIgdGhlbWUg
Kamikaze is a very complicated and difficult concept to explain. Very smart girl if she gets it (or the deeper meaning of it). Anti cry drink 🤣🤣🤣🤣. Too cute.
I am so ready for the 1998 version God that was probably better than like let me just say this the 2014 version -1 and f****** the original version the 1954 version of Godzilla there there you go I said it I said it you can all shoot me now because I said it okay I don't care
This movie had no right to be this good. But it is. Lately, I find myself immensely impressed with foreign film making. Every once in a while you find some amazing gems but the frequency in recent years has noticeably increased.
The Kyūshū J7W Shinden (震電, "Magnificent Lightning") is a World War II Japanese propeller-driven prototype fighter plane with wings at the rear of the fuselage, a nose-mounted canard, and a pusher engine.
Developed by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) as a short-range, land-based interceptor, the J7W was a response to Boeing B-29 Superfortress raids on the Japanese home islands. For interception missions, the J7W was to be armed with four forward-firing 30 mm type 5 cannons in the nose.
The Shinden was expected to be a highly maneuverable interceptor, but only two prototypes were finished before the end of the war. A jet engine-powered version was considered, but never even reached the drawing board.
Sadly they never made it in time before the B-29s nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Too little too late. I like how its kind of a metaphor that Shinden looks like an opposite facing A6M zero that usually kamikaze.
After we saw Godzilla minus 1 my friend asked me if that playing could be real I said it could...
Thanks for the information on this fascinating airplane.
probably it is called閃電(flash of lightning) than 震電, bcoz no such phrase 震電
I think this was the first time I've watched a Godzilla movie and thought, "Yeah, Godzillas cool, but let's get back to the interesting human stories"
It was the first time I'd seen a Godzilla movie and had no sympathy for him. When he destroyed Ginza, and Noriko was swept way, I said to myself, "I hope they *atomize* him."
@@greenmonsterprod That's my biggest problem with the film: Godzilla garners no sympathy whatsoever. The whole point of the original "Godzilla" movie was that Godzilla was a victim of atomic bombs too. It resonated with the Japanese so much that many of them cried when he died at the end of that first movie (yes, the first one!). And later films expounded that Godzilla was a gentle creature before being transformed into a monster. In this movie, Godzilla is a victim of atomic bombs in the same way that Freddy Krueger is a victim of vigilante justice. He was an asshole before the atom bomb and he became a bigger one after it.
@@ConstantineFurman That's just you being autistic. The original message of the film is largely irrelevant in the modern day; the film uses Godzilla as a metaphor for war itself.
@@ConstantineFurman They salute Godzilla at the end, though. He's like a cursed spirit of rage and pain and destruction that NEEDS to be destroyed, but the film does have a moment to reflect on that. Just because it wasn't outright said in the dialogue doesn't mean it wasn't present.
@@ConstantineFurmandon't forget it was not just Gōjira that was whacked, Dr Serizawa committed Hara Kiri so to speak so nobody got his Oxygen Destroyah to weaponize
The whole "Dying for your country" thing was a mind-set that originated with the Samurai, but as this movie shows, there were those in Japan who were starting to refuse to follow that mind-set. People no longer wanted to die just because their country demanded it, they wanted to live because they had something to live for, such as families, dreams, and aspirations.
Just an aside: Saburo Sakai was Japan's highest scoring ace to survive the war. In his biography, he said the first thing to come out of his mouth when he heard the military was organizing kamikaze attacks was basically, "That's stupid. What's that going to accomplish other than getting men killed for nothing?"
Saw this movie four times 2x in color and two times in black and white... I've never done that for a movie. They made you care about the humans and Godzilla movie they finally did it. But the best part was the soundtrack toho put in the original music and it was priceless.
Love this film, i like they start him off as Godzillasaurus on the island then after the bomb he mutates into full Gojira and back to his original height.
Yeah wow that's funny
@@godzilla44556how is this funny? 🤨
@@Dark_Trap998 well because I'm a sociopath
That was done earlier with time travelers stopped the dinosaur from being irradiated and did Ghidera instead to change the future.
Yes! So few people talk about this - they see it, but it's like no-one shows that plot element any love. The fact that he's a huge, non-atomic, sea monster is a glorious throwback to 'Beast From 20,000 Fathoms' - Godzilla's spiritual movie ancestor - and it *also* works with the core human drama of Koichi's survivor guilt, because I think his plane's 20mm gun *could* actually have killed the monster in his 'natural' form. Once Bikini happened and Godzilla mutated, that window closed forever.
A huge and excellent plot point.
The title, according to the director, has multiple meanings, explicitly referring to how Godzilla's destruction changed Japan's position from a "post-war zero situation" to a "minus". When explaining other possible reasons for the title, Yamazaki said that the film takes place before the original 1954 Godzilla film and that it emphasizes the theme of loss throughout.
Great movie! In reference to the subject of fate. I’m reminded of the quote “Accepting fate is what your mind tells you when you take your hands off the wheel of life”
Just before I went to the cinema to see this..I had just returned from a two week trip to Japan (from UK)..During the flight I watched a movie called "Dr Coto's Clinic" (Japanese movie)..and some of the actors from that movie also appear in this movie!...I was in Japan to see my favourite band LIVE in Yokohama...I had also flown out to Japan earlier in the year to see them LIVE in Tokyo during a 3 week trip!.....Japan is an amazing country..I truely hope to return someday... "Dr Coto's Clinic" movie is based on a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takatoshi Yamada. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Young Sunday from 2000 until the magazine's demise in 2008.
This band wouldn't happen to be BandMaid would it? lol
@@bettyyu-h5q Maybe Po!..🕊😉
Tachibana giving Koichi permission to live and then hearing he did on the radio gets me every time
I saw this in theaters with my dad, when we walked out he said he never thought he'd cry at a Godzilla movie too. I cried at the end of Vs Destoroyah.
So glad I chose to watch this at the cinema. It was a really hot day and I needed a reason to stay inside a place with air con. But the movie was awesome.
This film harkens back to some of the movies in all eras of Godzilla. But certain things are common among all of them.
In the 1970s we had something called the Godzillasaurus. This character would show up once again in the 1991 film Godzilla versus king Ghidrah. Godzillasaurus is a dinosaur that did not go extinct and remained on Edo island until the castle bravo test forced to evolve into the monster that we know today. Sometimes Godzilla was already a kaiju sleeping for untold eons until it was awakened by that very test.
Here we can assume that the Godzillasaurus evolved alongside other prehistoric animals, competing for food and territory. Which would explain his scars.
Edo island is another common piece of Godzilla lore dating all the way back to the original 1954 classic. Sometimes Edo island is very simulated as Okinawa, but left undisturbed for…ever. Sometimes Edo island is also known as monster Island and it’s just the place we’re all kaiju sorta gather. It has also been confused with skull island on more than one occasion sometimes they are two different islands, sometimes they’re the same island.
Odo Island is the island where Gojira (Godzilla) first appears back in the first Godzilla movie, and the echo sound at the of Godzilla's roar is from wax pulled along cello strings
Great reaction as always! Explanation on Minus 1 meaning. After the war Japan was put into a state of zero. Having to rebuild from scratch. Then introduce Godzilla, putting japan into the state of -1.
Literally is godzilla cells
The director said that exactly XD
Theories are shes gonna become biollante in the sequel
Either that or shes deeply connected to godzilla
Minus one basically means that the country is at a point where it is worse than thought possible. Acter world war 2 japan was at zero. The worst they could possibly be, filled with death and destruction and fire. Godzillas appearence put them below rock bottom, the icong on the shit cake that caused them to fall below what was thought possible
Minus one meaning , After ww2 Japan's economic state has been reduced to zero. Godzilla appears and plunges the country into a negative state.
Love this movie and your reaction, BTW that tumbler is ridiculous 😂😅😂
Really cool but ridiculous also lol 😆
Best Film of 2023. NOT Oppenheimer(while still very good)
Oppenheimer is a self-indulgent slog. Such a shame since it's such an interesting story. G-1 is more grounded and relatable because Takashi Yamazaki clearly has no inflated ego to coddle.
@@RealBLAlley I’m not going to bash Oppenheimer. Like I said, very good movie. But I will agree with you and restate what I said, GODZILLA Minus One SHOULD have been awarded Best Film of 2023. Because it is.
@@dustinhogle3844 Nor should you if you feel it doesn't deserve such criticism. I do, hence _my_ criticism. Contrary to the majority of online comments, we're allowed to have varying opinions.
Godzilla has had a healing factor since at least Godzilla 2000. Probably before, but it was part of the plot in that one.
The film is called Minus One because post World War II left Japan in ruins. They had to start all over again from ground Zero.
Then Godzilla shows up and wrecks even more havoc. Sending them from Zero to Minus One! Even further back than before! -OG
Minus One - is a referance to the fact they call the end of WW2 (after the x2 nukes) was called year zero ... They first see GZA one year before the end of WW2, so -1 ...
Hello guys!! Ground zero is known as the area of greatest devastation in a disaster, the -1 Minus One is directly massive destruction, a state superior to the most absolute devastation, from which it is impossible to rise.
$9M-$15M production budget, Bravo Yamazaki-Sama
Fun facts about this movie the title is a portmanteau of how things could go bad to worse post nuke Japan aka -1. However the most important fun fact is that this is the official Prequel to Shin Gojira.
Love your Godzilla 2 for NES shirt. I would lose the game just to get that screen and music
When you consider most Marvel movies are $100M+, this movie was every bit as gripping at a fraction of the budget.
I love the original film, but calling -1 a remake of that movie is really selling it short :/
You should watch Godzilla vs King Ghidorah (1991) because part of the story also takes place during WW2.
Japan was at zero due to WW2, basically as low as you can get but then Godzilla arrived shortly after making it even worse hence the -1
25:56 Jesus Christ, that bottle is giant
That was Called the G Cell. Aka the Godzilla Cell. It's a parasite. But instead of killing you, it keeps you alive.
I actually cried both times at the cinema while watching this movie , that little kid deserves a Oscar.
Yup. ❤
Not gonna lie...when Akiko started crying I started crying.😭
@MarcMcKenzie-qb6or oh ya I had to really hold back in tears so hard from watching that scene. Then seeing her cry oh mannnnnn that was hella tough to see. Imagine you as a little kid and someone telling you that your mom/dad is gonna go away for awhile when the truth is that either one of them has been killed, it's the worst
She def does not deserve an Oscar lol. Your standards are very low lol
Akiko-chan now is a Blockbuster Baby ❤
It's called Minus One because Japan was reduced to zero after WW2, and Godzilla's arrival makes it even worse.
Yep, I was just about to tell them that until I saw your comment.
I was thinking in director's misdirection, being a Kamikaze pilot I thought that going to do and be a meaningful sacrifice to redeem himself for a greater reason.
So the next one would be Godzilla 0 then?
There is a more plausible explanation. Yamasaki had made another film dealing with kamikaze pilots and PTSD called "Eternal Zero". Zero is the name of the WW2 kamikaze plane.
@@AxelGizmo In other words, He found the perfect title for the film. Works in many levels!
Just love it when the original music scores kick in
It’s such moving,poignant music.
Stands the test of time.
The -1 is because of a book called Tokyo Year Zero in which the year after the war was called "Year Zero" because Tokyo was so devastated it had to start over from zero. The minus one is a play on that as in if things weren't bad enough with Tokyo being taken to zero by the war, Godzilla came and knocked them further back to -1.
I'm an old guy... Godzilla has been a part of my life for 60 years... THIS is the greatest Godzilla film ever made... Masterpiece!
Hey that's cool, your almost as old as Godzilla.
Me too man...was pretty cool seeing the CGI catch up with them... practical effects will always be King but it's been cool being alive to watch the progression..it's pretty badass😅🤘🔥🤘..just like with the comic books.. ironman,, wolverine etc...super cool..the kids today are too stupid to get it😅✌️
58 and I agree, plus a cheaper budget. See Hollywood, Pay for great writersand players. I love this.
Yeah I've been a godzilla fan for 35+ years, seen everyone but Raids Again and I feel like its safe to assume -1 is better.
@@Dudeamis17 Why not Raids Again? It's a lot of fun and has some great aerial scenes. Minus One also pays homage to it, as well, along with King Kong vs Godzilla and subsequent films like GMK.
That's a real Japanese plane design from WWII, the Kyushu J7W1 Shinden. The movie plane is an exact replica of one now in a museum.
Seeing the Shinden turn up, after having been treated to an alternative fate for the (surrendered in 1945) Takao... I mean, the movie just gives so much to the viewer. It's a delight, for all the heartbreak of the screenplay.
The original Shinden design was from a German prototype. The Japanese made a few design changes but the frame is basically the same. The Germans were allied with Japan and shared some of their aircraft designs. Both aircraft were too late to be used in the war so they never went into production.
And yes, it was one of only a few prototype aircraft that had an ejection seat. No regular production aircraft had them then.
The movie replica is now in a museum at Tachiarai. I saw it back in November and they even had a special movie prop exhibit.
This movie made me cry.... A Godzilla movie made me cry! These are the end times!
Right there with you brother
@@BryanH63 I walked out of the Imax theater seeing a lot of grown ups wiping their faces, lol, and I too was one of them. They finally made one that REALLY made you feel for the human characters.
Yo the real Michael Bay, holy shit. Loved this movie, but not enough explosions fr fr
For real. I had to end my relationship with my partner, she is half Japanese, and we were supposed t9 see this movie together. We never did but, I saw this movie several times in theatres and cried EVERY single time. If you were to tell me there would be a Godzilla movie that made people cry and won an Oscar, I'd say "not in my lifetime."
First time? hahaha
Ryunosuke Kamiki
Actor absolutely killed it in this movie, defiantly put everything he had in this role. HIs performance brought tears to my eyes in theaters during the atomic breath scene
Favorite Godzilla movie, definitely gonna need the anti cry drink for this one 😢
This is one of the best Godzilla movies I have ever seen. I saw this movie 3 times in the theater. The first two times I saw it with my older brothers, and the third time me and my oldest brother finally got our parents to go see it, and they loved it. Definitely the best human story out of any movie in the Godzilla franchise. The visual effects and special effects are awesome, especially for a budget of less than 15 million U.S. dollars. The acting is beautiful. I will say, after watching this movie in the theater in its original Japanese audio, this movie does not need an English dub because of how good the acting is. The music is also beautiful. Hearing the classic Godzilla music along with the original music made me close to shedding tears of nostalgia. And to top it all off, this was the best early Christmas present to ever get last year leading up to Christmas. Thank you to everyone involved in the making of Godzilla Minus One. You guys did a fantastic job 👍👍.
Had tons of fun working on this film! It was an honour
Legit the BEST film of last year. Loved it soooo much
I worked on it too !
Source: trust me bro
Alex says hi.
@@maul8384You must be really fun at parties
When is the movie going to have a home release in the United States? Any information would be appreciated.
25:28~
Noriko is killed by Godzilla's heat rays, and when Shikishima is screaming and crying, black rain begins to fall. This is because black rain falls after a nuclear bomb explodes.
Godzilla with wolverine's healing ability is absolutely terrifying. One of the best IMAX experiences I've ever witnessed.
No this was DBZ Cell or Majin Buu levels of regeneration it was insane.
@@donovanbradford8231 buu and cell's regen is instantaneous.. definitely wolvering or deadpool level
Godzilla has always had regeneration, but this was another level.
It's called Minus One cause Japan was at "zero" after the war, Godzilla puts the still recovering Japan into the negatives. It's also called Minus One because it's taking place in a time period (the 40s) before the first movie (the 50s). So in a way it's kind of like a spiritual prequel.
It's literally a prequel. I truly believe so.
@@Trilaan It's a weird case of being it's own continuity but drawing enough from the original to be a spiritual remake like Shin and just like Shin being set in a different time period. So it's like a spiritual remake and spiritual prequel at the same time.
I wouldn't say Japan was at 0 after the war. It was still in better state than Germany which had been leveled. And keep in mind that it was easy for the Japanse to rebuild because of their architecture and of course work ethic.
@@xXturbo86Xx Don't shoot the messenger, I'm saying what the trailer said. ruclips.net/video/YlceGpbGgvE/видео.html
@@xXturbo86Xx Don't shoot the messenger, I'm saying what the trailer said. If the monster movie is not "historically accurate" take it up with Toho.
Two of the movie's star Kamiki Ryunosuke(who played the main character Koichi) and Munetaka Aoki(Sosaku the plane engineer) also appeared in the Rurouni Kenshin movies with Kamiki appearing in the second to fourth movies as the boy-ish looking but cunning swordsman Sojiro and Munetaka as Kenshin's sidekick Sanosuke in all the movies. Both are really great actors. I would recommend everyone to check out the excellent Rurouni Kenshin movies immediately for their great performance there too.
I don't think I've seen Mrs. Movie shocked as much as she was when she saw Godzilla unleash his blast on Ginza. Great reaction to a great movie 👍🏻
It won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects and you can see why as the VFX artists put a lot of love and effort into making this film
Personally, I don’t think the effects are really any more impressive than anything you see in the Monsterverse or Jurassic World, and think that winning the award for VFX was an insult; not only to other films that could lay a more legitimate claim, but also to this film, because it’s like it was decided to give it the easiest award possible just so they wouldn’t have to give this foreign film about a giant monster any real recognition. This movie is so much more than a mere Godzilla movie, in the way people think about Godzilla. It honestly deserved to win best picture, or best director, or best screenplay, or something legitimate. VFX was an easy pick to avoid giving the movie its true credit and it’s an offense.
@@TeenTyrant I think we need to go back to suits. CGI does not impress me anymore, I play games all the time so now CGI looks like video game characters who've been photoshopped into a live action movie. My eyes aren't fooled anymore. Still a great movie. And yeah, I feel like this movie should have won awards for story and actors, not sfx.
@@TeenTyrant They are impressive given the budget for the movie, $15 million.
@@TeenTyrant Thing is the average Monsterverse and Jurassic World film costs around $200 million to make, Minus One had a budget of under $15 million, that's why the VFX rightfully deserve recognition, I agree that it's also so much more than just the effects and definitely deserved more awards though.
@@livingcorpse5664 That's nonsense. Visual effects are only obvious when they are done poorly or depict something that isn't real. You don't even notice 90% of the CG that exists in films and TV.
Easily one of the best if not the best Godzilla movie ever made, saw it 10 times in theaters.
This is my favorite movie of all time ....
23:11 He's that mad because they dropped a nuke on him at Bikini Atoll, which also caused him to mutate. In other continuities they often add things like it destroyed his home lair or after his mutation, he's in constant pain. Often, the real answer is that he's a stand-in for something else like fear of nuclear weapons, or the unstoppable power of a force of nature, or even the spirits of angry WWII soldiers. Then there are the dozens of movies that were made mostly for kids where he's practically a super hero, and the latest American MonsterVerse films that follow that idea.
Yeah ,I remember hearing over the years that his mutation causes him pain but his own cellular regeneration won't let him succumb to the pain and injury.
Such a fantastic film. It's incredibly satisfying as a Godzilla movie, but just as much so as a period drama exploring post-war trauma and survivor's guilt.
This is what we get when filmmakers don't assume the entire audience are brain-dead morons and actually apply real effort. They actually address the questions we have as the audience, and even small details received attention. For example, on the bomb they install in the Shinden Fighter you can see where they had to remove the fins with a cutting torch to make it fit. Lazy Hollywood would have had a bomb that magically fit perfectly in a space made for it.
They also had a budget 1/20th of Hollywood films because they don't stupidly pay their lead actor a small fortune for no box office gain nor pay 49 producers who had nothing to do with the film.
I've watched this movie 3 times in a day. That Oscar is well deserved.
The IJN Takao was the last Japanese heavy cruiser to survive the war. She was moared in Singapore waiting to be scrapped. In this reality, she was pressed back into service where she met her end facing Gorjira.
Drachinifel did a video on this universe's Takao on April Fools Day
The kyushu shinden isn't what i expected to see in this movie too! Cool plane tho
@@DraytonWrite Yeah, that was a double delight - Drach isn't just a top naval history nerd, he's a G-fan too.
I think I remember that one of the first ejection seats was a German design for one of the first jets they had but they never implemented them on mass. I didn't expected this movie to be that emotional and well acted, I also needed a lot of anti cry fluid ❤
When Takashi Yamazaki met Steven Spielberg at the Oscars he tweeted, "I've met GOD. What am I going to do with all this? I'm seriously crying.
And Spielberg saw GMO 3 times. He told me he liked the characters in the film. I gave him a Godzilla figure, and he was so happy he took it..."
This movie for me it top tier, easily the best Godzilla movie. And not just a great Godzilla movie but a great movie. Even if you take Godzilla out you have a gripping movie about loss, guilt, PTSD, trying to piece together a life and a makeshift family out of the rubble of post-WWII Japan. It is a great movie and having Godzilla in it is the whipped cream and cherry on top.
"Live." Truly powerful and a testiment to how well they developed the characters in this film. Made me cry grown man tears in the theatre when they did the callback to that after all Koichi had battled through.
Nice! I can't wait! This was my favorite film from 2023. I took my 11 year old to go see it and we both cried. It was great. Surprisingly, Godzilla X Kong was really good too, but in a totally different way.
I hadn't been to a theater since Deadpool 2 until this movie, & so far it's the only movie I've gone to the theater more than once to see, saw it 3 times.
This took the top spot(beating out Across The Spider-Verse) as my favorite movie of 2023. As a godzilla fan since I was 4(I was born 1990) they actually made me afraid of him(Godzilla). I watched this movie 4 times in the theatres in December and it was money well spent. Thanks so much for the upload. Mrs Movies is a boss
Edit: 25:29 i thought the same thing too - if the american oscars werent so uptight(this movie won Best Visual Effects obvy) he should have been nominated. This Godzilla movie actually gave us an amazing character and the actors performance was far better than any of the Best actor nominess this year.
27:15 this is real science. A boat will sink in foam. The gas equalizes the bouncy between the displaced air from the boat's hull and the water.
I think the budget for this was like $15M, and it puts $200M - $300M US movies to shame.
Also, that breath weapon going off in the theater was visceral.
It was actually 10 million.
@@jg3000 Which is bizarre because the average cost of a Heisei and Millennium Godzilla movie was around $10 million.
@@ConstantineFurman Lots of labor on minitures. Some CGI. With Hesei and Melenium. With Minus One the director was on special effects as well. That saves money. You also have to factor in the yin and Japan's small market. If I had to guess they save a lot of money having everything right on paper before a single special effect is rendered. In Hollywood they do 10 rewrites, 40 redesigns. Always tweeking because it wasn't right in the first place. It gets expensive fast.
The official budget figure hasn't been released - apparently Japanese studios tend to be pretty cagey about giving budget figures. US$10-15 million is the estimate, but I think that's just on effects - the budget figures given in Hollywood are usually overall, you'd have to dig further to get breakdown by department.
@@dartigens10 That's not true at all. It's very easy to find budgets from Japanese studios. It helps a lot to know Japanese. No, it's not "just the effects." 10-15 mil, WHATEVER it is, is for the whole movie.
This was a fantastic movie.
Even if there was no giant monster, the story would have still made it a great movie.
Even if it becomes a wonderful movie, the person who expects Godzilla raises the riot
I read somewhere that the Minus One referred to the fact that after the war Japan was essentially at rock bottom, or Zero in terms of morale,and having to rebuild, hence Godzilla beating them down still further meant the nation was now at Minus One in terms of morale.
Sweet! So far, you are the only reactor that owned the Japanese copy, meaning you officially supported the film. I just wanted to say, “Thank you.”
Mrs Movies sure wasn't expecting this kind of Godzilla movie. The human storyline was good. But. Watching Godzilla going full on bat shit crazy was just epic.
Love it when they make Godzilla a villain. Much better when Godzilla is the bad guy. Best Godzilla movie ever IMO. Ten times better than New Empire. I don't like Hollywood's Yeaghar style monsters
@@mcentepede I like all of them. I just enjoy monster movies.
The train and his tail are bat
I saw this in a real IMAX (London). It was so freaking spectacular. Mind blowing it was made on just a $15 million budget.
Damn, if I weren't tight on money, I'd buy that Blu-ray in a heartbeat. Hope for a North American release.
Your expression of shock at the attack on Ginza was amazing, that's definitely how I looked when I first saw it.❤
Saw this in the cinema last year with the wife and son. We all loved it, we all cried through it. Masterpiece!
And it only cost $15m to make, too.
Amazing movie, acting, story, worthy oscar vfx win.
Operation Crossroads, the nuclear tests off Bikini Atoll mentioned in this work, were actually conducted in 1946 after the U.S. military dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. This was also the “cause of the birth of Godzilla” in the first “Godzilla” film, and I think that the Japanese people of that time were partly substituting Godzilla for the nuclear threat that might still persist.
In addition to about 70 naval vessels, 200 pigs, 60 guinea pigs, 204 goats, 5,000 rats, 200 mice, and other animals were also sacrificed in this operation. This is also where the idea of Gojira, in which nuclear effects can cause fatal changes in living organisms, may have originated.
Recent monster-verse films and other films state that “Operation Crossroads was intended to defeat Godzilla,” but I feel that this takes out the original element of Godzilla as a warning against nuclear weapons testing. Therefore, the depiction of Operation Crossroads in “Godzilla Minus One” should be seen as similar to the original version.
(P.S. I always look forward to your videos from Japan! Thanks again for all the great videos!)
I have never gotten emotional to any monster movie. This movie made me cry 3 times. Best Godzilla movie to date.
So happy to see you two reacting to this emotional masterpiece of a Godzilla movie.
24:10
I watched this in IMAX when it first came out.
I'll never forget this moment. The whole theater was enjoying finally seeing Godzilla doing what he does best, destroying stuff. There were some cheers because we were finally about to see this version of his atomic breath.
The moment it EXPLODED, the entire theater had the same reaction you two did. The fact that this version is quite literally a nuclear explosion shocked us all into silence. Not a single sound came out of the entire audience until the next scene.
That moment was the single most impactful thing I've ever experienced from a Godzilla movie.
A friend of mine got to see this movie in Japan a month before the US premiere. He told me several audience members cried at this scene.
The thing on her neck were G cells which granted Noriko the ability to heal fast and survive Godzilla's heat ray.
The "Minus One" also refers to Japan's defeat in The War. There's a say that Japan was taken back to "Zero", now with Godzilla wreaking havoc in a Japan that was just rebuilding it has taken them even further back: Minus One.
Which makes me wonder if the guys that made Minus One are bringing back Biolante.
This is how you handle the human aspect of these sorts of movies. They did an outstanding job with this film overall.
Godzilla: Get nuked and has eyes melt out of their sockets.
Mrs. Movies: "Why is he so mad?"
Godzilla eats Nukes for breakfast. And atomic bombs for lunch
@@mcentepede His eye melted out of his socket! His face is burned every time he uses his atomic breath! Just cause he feeds off radiation doesn't mean he isn't being hurt by the explosions and heat!
@@livingcorpse5664 he thinks this one is just like the Monsterverse Godzilla 💀
@@Dark_Trap998 My head canon with MV Goji (and really all Gojis) is nukes do damage him but the radiation speeds up his healing factor so it's a moot point.
@@livingcorpse5664 GOJIRAS
"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country"
- _"Patton"_ (1970)
Have you ever seen a blob fish? That’s not what they look like what happens is that deep sea fish and when they brought up too quickly, they blow up like balloons and die.
23:04 “Why is he so mad?” Ah, the old nature vs nurture question. It’s in his nature to be mad, but his nurture has so far been bullets, mines, bombs, shells, and a whole goddamn nuke. All things considered he’s a remarkably well-adjusted giant horrifying monster. He could’ve made a scene.
Y'all should check out takashi yamazaki other movies like his sunset on third Street trilogy and The Great War of Archimedes. They're amazing. Also fun fact two movie's were responsible for the creation of this movie, Gojira 1954 and GMK 2001
Shinden (Shaking Thunder) is designed and made by soley Japanese. Germany had a more advanced jet engine at that time. While Shinden is designed to replace its engine to jet engine easily for future, it still got propeller engine at that time. Japanese jet engine based plane at that time could only fly only for 3 min. So it specifically used for Kamikaze attack.
In this movie, Japan got together every technology available back then to defeat Godzilla. For instance, the tanks which attacked Godzilla at Ginza looked very ordinary and boring, but those are the ones which were named Type-4 tanks, newly developed tanks to equip relatively large canon.There are a lot more stories behind technolgies appeared in this movie.
Director Yamazaki is a pretty good director to satisfy military Otaku, too. : )
Germany also had the Dornier D035 which had two prop engines, front and rear and looking very similar
There is a likely inspired plane of similar design in the animated series "Macross" (aka "Robotech") that has both propeller and jet propulsion for momentary speed boosts.
Incidentally it too involves rowdy giants. ;)
I really hope they don't mess up that live action version, should it ever actually get made.
Wait, Shinden is Shaking thunder and not Glorious thunder?
He's military otaku 😅
@@grabtharshammer
Thanks. I searched RUclips and found the one. So now I convinced Germany had more advanced and challenging idea. : )
The only design JPN could import from Germany was Type-4 (飛燕: Flying sparrow). Germany was too far back then.
"This is like Jaws turned up to 11!'
Godzilla regenerating himself has been part of the canon since Godzilla 2000.
even before that, G-Cells and their regenerative powers were introduced in VS Biollante in 1989
I knew Godzilla had a healing factor off and on over the yeard but when I saw his regeneration in this I was flat out, "OH MAN THAT IS SOME DBZ LEVELS OF REGENERATION RIGHT THERE. You guys are screwed."
Good to know.
Humans need that kind of regeneration. What almost happened in the Walking Dead.
I love Godzilla movies
I just watched Godzilla -1 on Netflix and I cried 4 times. This has won my number 1 spot for a Godzilla movie, at least tied with the original.
This was the first Godzilla movie where I enjoyed the 'B' plot (life in postwar Japan) as an equal story to the 'A' plot. Both were great, I was every interested in the stories occurring in its entirety. Now my top three are Godzilla Minus 1, Shin Godzilla and the original without Raymond Burr.
Godzilla Minus One is referring to Post War Japan being destroyed and lost with this Monster showing up to destroy what is left
I really love when Godzilla is the villain. I always root for the bad guys.
@@mcentepede lol as a Korean I'm right there with you rooting for Godzilla.
@@cheebeesremember the Empire is long dead.
@@cheebees Ouch! Yeah I figure you and Godzilla aren't big fans of Japan.
This is definitely the best Godzilla since the original.
Did anyone else notice the song playing during the climax is Akira Ifukube's King Kong vs Godzilla theme?
From the first one?
@@Perktube1 yeah, the original from 1962. It's an instrumental without the vocals, but you be the judge
m.ruclips.net/video/jq5WSQy1ocQ/видео.html&pp=ygUha2luZyBrb25nIHZzIGdvZHppbGxhIDE5NjIgdGhlbWUg
No. That theme is from the original. It was just the fanfare that was written for King Kong vs Godzilla.
Yep! Kong was getting drunk on berry juice while the natives chanted the music.
And while Noriko is hanging from the train the og Godzilla v Mothra 1964 theme plays!
日本語でコメントします。
いつもこのチャンネルを楽しく見ています。
ゴジラ-1.0を楽しんでもらえて嬉しいです!
Arigato!
Definitely deserved that Oscar.
Kamikaze is a very complicated and difficult concept to explain. Very smart girl if she gets it (or the deeper meaning of it). Anti cry drink 🤣🤣🤣🤣. Too cute.
Best film of 2023..
the plane was not german but the seat was and some parts who got repaired.
this things was japans last airplanes fast with 0 armor
I am so ready for the 1998 version God that was probably better than like let me just say this the 2014 version -1 and f****** the original version the 1954 version of Godzilla there there you go I said it I said it you can all shoot me now because I said it okay I don't care
This movie had no right to be this good. But it is. Lately, I find myself immensely impressed with foreign film making. Every once in a while you find some amazing gems but the frequency in recent years has noticeably increased.
Yes! Can't wait for your reaction!
I WAS NOT READY FOR THE WATERBOY LINE 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 “mommmma saiddd cause alligators got all them teeth and no toothbrush”
I can't describe how.much I love your videos and how much I like you both thanks for all the reactions especially battlestar galactica