TOHO and GKIDS have finally unveiled a new teaser trailer for Oscar-winning writer-director Takashi Yamazaki‘s highly anticipated sequel kaiju film, Godzilla Minus Zero.
Despite the fact that it’s a sequel, Godzilla Minus Zero dispenses with the idea of the movie being a cliffhanger setup for a trilogy in its promotional material, which feels like it was ghostwritten by its worn-out hero. And honestly, we don’t blame them for the finality of its language, reminding folks that World War II already reduced Japan to zero, the unmitigated disaster that is Godzilla reduced it to minus that, and now the big lummox is spinning the block for yet another devious lick just when the nation is on the upswing toward returning to normalcy. “There is no third time. Everything ends here,” would be our modus operandi too after going through all that. And as we can see from the second teaser, Big G is ready to put our heroes back into the blender once again.
The rest of the film’s more detailed synopsis is as follows:
Godzilla Minus Zero picks up in 1949, two years after the tumultuous events of Godzilla Minus One, and continues the story of the Shikishima family as they face an all-new calamity. As previously announced, Ryunosuke Kamiki returns as Koichi Shikishima, the hero who stood against Godzilla’s terror in Godzilla Minus One, and is joined by Minami Hamabe as Noriko Shikishima, who miraculously survived Godzilla’s first attack on Tokyo.
Joining the cast alongside Kamiki and Hamabe is Kokuho‘s Min Tanaka. The seasoned actor will be playing Kanji Murakami, a biologist described as carrying “deep psychological scars from the war.” Stars reprising their roles in Minus Zero include Hidetaka Yoshioka as Kenji Noda, who graduated from fighting alongside Shikishima to facing a wealth of new threats and battles as the director of the Disaster Response Bureau; Yuki Yamada as Shiro Mizushima; Sakura Ando as Shikishima’s no-nonsense neighbor Sumiko Ota, who now runs a local orphanage; and Miou Tanaka as Tatsuo Hotta, the former captain of the destroyer Yukikaze.
As a follow-up to the Academy Award-winning Godzilla Minus One, Toho and crew are coming out of the gates swinging by upping their cinematography game in Godzilla Minus Zero, a sequel to one of the biggest giant-monster box-office success stories of all time.
One big way Godzilla Minus Zero is meeting the moment is by being the first-ever Japanese production shot entirely in IMAX. Translation, we’re going to be seeing and hearing Goji in ways never seen before on the silver screen. When a film dethrones Hideaki Anno’s Shin Godzilla—the previous record holder for Japan’s highest-grossing Godzilla movie, earning $78 million worldwide—by going band-for-band and surpassing it with a sweltering $116 million, it gets carte blanche to set as many historical milestones as it wants. We’ll keep its trophies warm for award season. Alongside returning as the film’s writer-director, Yamazaki will also serve as Godzilla Minus Zero‘s VFX lead, which in itself is more than enough to be excited about.
Godzilla Minus Zero releases in Japan on November 3—which just so happens to fall on the original release date of Godzilla in 1954—and in North America on November 6.
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