TOHO revealed on Wednesday that Godzilla Minus One, Takashi Yamazaki’s new film in TOHO’s Godzilla franchise, will have a new black-and-white version titled Godzilla Minus One/Minus Color (Godzilla-1.0/C) and will start premieres in Japan on January 12. TOHO is streaming the first trailer for the news release.
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Godzilla Minus One opens in Japan on November 3, 2023 (“Godzilla Day”), which is the anniversary of the first Godzilla film released on November 3, 1954. The new film opens at the Union Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) as the closing film of this year’s event on November 1.
The film sold 648,600 tickets for 1,041,193,460 yen (about US$6.93 million) in its first three days at the Japanese box office. The film sold 14.7% more tickets and earned 22.8% more in its first three days than the most recent Japanese live-action Godzilla film, Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi’s Shin Godzilla, did. made in the first three days in 2016. The film sold a total of 2.87 million tickets for a cumulative total of 4,425,512,980 yen (about 31.04 million USD).
Ryunosuke Kamiki plays the main character Kōichi Shikishima and Minami Hamabe plays the female lead Noriko Ōishi. (Both also starred in NHK’s weekday morning drama Ranman.) Other cast members include Yuki Yamada, Munetaka Aoki, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Sakura Andō, and Kuranosuke Sasaki.
The film opened in US theaters on December 1 and earned US$11,419,975 in its first three days and ranked 3rd at the US box office in its opening weekend. The film had the highest opening weekend for a foreign film in the United States this year, surpassing Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc’s $10.1 million opening weekend in March. The film became the highest-grossing Japanese live-action film in North America. The Critics’ Choice Awards nominated the film for Best Foreign Language Film.
Yamazaki is the director and screenwriter, and is also credited for the visual effects. Yamazaki primarily directed live-action films, including Always: Sunset on Third Street, Returner and Parasyte, but also directed CG films such as Stand By Me Doremon.
Source: Godzilla Minus One official website, TOHO’s official YouTube channel