Godzilla Minus One is a 2023 Japanese epic kaiju film written, directed, and with visual effects by Takashi Yamazaki. It is the 37th film in the Godzilla franchise, Toho's 33rd Godzilla film, and the fifth installment of the Reiwa era. Set in postwar Japan, the film stars Ryunosuke Kamiki as a former kamikaze pilot suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after encountering a giant monster known as "Godzilla". The supporting cast includes Minami Hamabe, Yuki Yamada, Munetaka Aoki, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Sakura Ando, and Kuranosuke Sasaki.
The film received positive reviews and currently holds a fresh rating of 99% on Rotten Tomatoes. Steve Biodrowski writing for Hollywood Gothique gave it 5/5 stars saying this in his review, "Godzilla Minus One is a monumental example of a film that succeeds beyond the boundaries of its genre. Amazingly, writer-director Takashi Yamazaki achieves this goal not by fashioning a revisionist take that eschews the well-mined veins of the 70-year-old franchise. Instead, he follows those veins to their mother lode, digging deeper to extract their full potential – for both monster mayhem and human pathos. Forged into an alloy, these elements create a deeply moving domestic drama about post-war Japan recovering from its wounds, merged with a brutal horror movie featuring the monster as the living embodiment of the characters’ – and the nation’s – traumatized psyche.
The result is not merely a good Godzilla movie, a good monster movie, or a good blockbuster. It is, quite simply, an extraordinary movie by any measure."
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