It's really interesting having thisvand Oppenheimer come out the same year and are not connected but feel like they belong together. In Oppenheimer he said "I have become Death. Destroyer of worlds" but in this it's more like he created Death. Destroyer of worlds
Underrated moment: Tachibanas relief when he hears Shikisima survived. He spent the war fixing planes so pilots could fly off and die. And now he's finally used his skills to save a life. And he can put his guilt to rest as well.
That and the “My war isn’t over yet” were the standout lines for me in this film. You could take Godzilla out of this movie and it’d still be an excellent story.
@@danielmalone4820I agree. I like that in this work, Godzilla is not just a monster but symbolizes PTSD caused by war, and that fighting Godzilla means facing and overcoming one's own trauma head on with the help of Noriko and the others.
Can we all just agree, the real GOAT of the film is Sumiko? She loses everything and everyone, including 3 children, and still manages to not only forgive Shikishima's failure but continues to help him and Noriko and Akiko through everything like an absolute rock?
I absolutely love how her reaction at the end of the film is the opposite of her reaction to Shikishima at the beginning. She hated him for not "doing his duty " and dying for his country. But by the end she's hitting him for not only potentially giving up on Akiko rather than living for her but also potentially not finding out about Noriko being alive.
Just a reliable sassy neighborhood Auntie Sumiko was. She was mad, and grieving but she wasn’t cruel enough to leave those kids, her heart for children saved them and they became family. Such a great character.
Thank you for rolling the credit😊 FunFact:The scene where Noriko and Shikishima reunite in Ginza is based on a real experience of Director Yamazaki. On the day when all transportation was paralyzed due to the Great East Japan Earthquake, he unexpectedly reunited with his wife in a crowd. This personal experience inspired him to include it in the script.
That’s awesome, I thought it was unrealistic in the movie but it’s really cool to know it was a real experience for the director, based on a true emergency no less!
The male lead should have gotten an oscar for that screaming scene in the black rain alone..that was the most chilling and scary psychological pain scene I have seen in my life
He’s an anime voice actor! Which makes sense cause out of the whole cast his voice sounds like he does anime roles (and then I found out he’s the voice actor for Taki in the iconic Kimi No Na Wa/ Your Name film!!) Unfortunately I read other comments in other reaction channels saying his acting was so bad…
@@Entxq_ damn those channels have no taste, he did his role so well and you can see his emotions so clearly. He really sold the feelings of someone who has survivors guilt.
There's a kamikaze pilot named Yuji Sasaki, who survived nine kamikaze missions and died at age 93. He simply dropped the bomb and returned to base rather than hitting the ship with the whole plane. Because he did hit some ships, the military couldn't just throw him to jail, and he got some friends to cover him too. His story got published at 2010s and made people realized how the military forced these kamikaze pilots to die for literally nothing.
"made people realized how the military forced these kamikaze pilots to die for literally nothing" With all due respect, I'm pretty sure people already knew that for a long time....
The translator did an amazing job! The literal translation of this line in Japanese is "I leave this country in your hands." Personally, I find Director Yamazaki's scripts to be straightforward, but his use of dialogue is poor, often being overly explanatory and lacking in emotional depth. In this film as well, there were honestly many scenes that were overly explanatory, but the translation did a wonderful job, making the work better as a whole.
That scene of Koichi screaming after the explosion must be one of the most devastating things I have seen in my life, there are many movies that I regret not having seen in theaters, this is one of them, one of the best Kaijus movies of history
I saw it four times. The last time in black and white. The best cinematic experience I've had since watching Terminator 2 in the theaters in 1991. Too bad I wasn't able to see it in IMAX though.
Black rain is symbolic of the A bomb attacks. They say after the bomb the rain was black. It traumatized an already traumatized people. There's even a 90s cop movie set in Japan called Black rain (Michael Douglas)
You know it's good when a Godzilla movie makes you cry. I went with my dad and son who both cried during the movie. 15 million dollars goes a long way with this director and crew!
In the theater there were little gasps and murmurs throughout the movie, but when the breathe was released and decimated the city, it was stone cold silence and shock. Everyone was frozen until the next scene started. Amazing experience.
I said this in The Normies reaction, but you can tell this Godzilla’s behavior was based on the director’s cat. It also allows you to view his actions as one of two ways. A) His destruction felt more curious and playful than anger. He gets distracted by his own explosions. Even when killing people, he feels like a cat being proud about killing a mouse. It honestly makes him more scary that he both is and isn’t aware of the carnage he’s wrought. B) He is intelligent and sentient like most other incarnations of Godzilla, and is taking his anger out on Japan for the nuke. There's a great fan-monologue about Godzilla's motivations I always loved... "I was the last of my kind, and you turned me into the first. That is why I punish you... because I never though I could be made more alone."
according to the movie's novelization, this Godzilla is sapient from the start of the movie, entirely aware that humanity is responsible for his mutation, and is actively getting revenge.
The director said he chose to make Godzilla much smaller than the Monsterverse version, so its interactions with us would be more personal. We aren't just collateral damage, it's actively killing us.
Takashi Yamazaki who was the director, writer, and VFX supervisor for this film was told by Steven Spielberg that not only did he love it, he saw this film in IMAX 3 times. He also confirmed that the black substance crawling up Noriko’s neck in the final shot was in fact Godzilla’s cells, implying that she was able to survive because she had mostly regenerated just like Godzilla. And she likely got those cells because the news voiceover said parts of Godzilla came off him when he was being shot at by the tanks.
Yamazaki also apparently has a solid film resumé so it was cool that he was praised by high level Hollywood directors. Even Gareth Edwards who directed Godzilla 2014 said that he was jealous of how much better Godzilla Minus One was to his film
If she is infected with G-Cells it will be interesting to see how that plays out in a sequel. Maybe she has a psychic link. I have a feeling a sequel would take place about 5 to 10 years after the event of Minis One, sure to how much of Godzilla's body he had to regenerate. I think she got infected when she was in the train car Godzilla bit into and fell into the water with the car falling after her. The inside of Godzilla's mouth is shown to be more prone to taking damage.
@@Spongebrain97 This isn't even the first time he's used Godzilla in films he's done.. A well-received CGI Godzilla appears in a dream sequence in his film Always: Sunset on Third Street. He also did the Godzilla film part of the Godzilla: The Ride attraction.
@@Blackferret66 However, in that movie, right after that scene a child remarks, "You're just ripping off Godzilla" implying that the monster in that sequence wasn't Godzilla. I know, I know, it has all the Godzilla bells and whistles, but if we're supposed to think it's Godzilla, they shouldn't have the next damn line in the movie be "You're ripping off Godzilla" instead of something like "Hey! That's just Godzilla!".
I love how they show military veteran ptsd and panic attacks in this movie, especially in the scene where he starts to tell himself that maybe he died already.
I usually hate when they focus on humans in monster movies, but the way they did it in this movie was just pure perfection. Hands down my favourite Godzilla movie. I am sooooo looking forward to a sequel especially to see how they explain the neck shot on Nariko. I'm assuming it's to insinuate that she's been infected with Godzilla's healing ability. One of a handful of movies that made me cry. I literally have NO criticisms
The film starts with a compelling story and characters, and adds Godzilla to the mix. Substitute some other disaster for Godzilla, and it would still be a great story. That's what Hollywood today doesn't grasp. Don't try to make a great monster movie, just make the best *movie* you can.
@@danieldickson8591 Hollywood still makes a lot of great movies, in fact, many of them have been in theaters this year, it's just not all of them are from big name franchises. And as for American Godzilla movies, it's clear that they intend for those films to just be big action monster smash fun and not exactly deep character exploration narratives, I mean the closest thing the American Godzilla franchise has come to that is the Monarch show
It's setting up Biollante, which is a corrupted Gojira-human hybrid. I personally don't think a sequel for this film should be made. It has a beautiful ending, and adding more shouldn't be necessary nor wise.
A couple fun facts that weren't mentioned: • The Shinden aircraft was built as a 1:1 accurate replica and anonymously donated to a Japanese WWII museum and it was only revealed that it was made by Toho for the film after Minus One released. • The fish showing up dead near when Godzilla arrives are what the professor sees and gives him the inspiration for why the pressurization & depressurization tactic is his plan for defeating Godzilla. • Sumiko initially berating Shikishima for not carrying out his duty as a kamikaze pilot sets up for her experiencing that same frustration and fear when she thinks he DOES do that at the end of the film. Even though she lost her old children and is left with Akiko, it shows that she genuinely processed her emotion and pain exactly as much as Shikishima did. • Godzilla is portrayed as a curse god (Tatarigami) where the physical and emotional trauma lashes out at everything around them, even if they're all suffering from the same pain. It's why Godzilla's wrath gets directed at the Japanese instead of the Americans the same way we see with characters like Sumiko in the aftermath of the war. That's why they salute Godzilla as he's crumbling into the ocean, as that type of entity isn't fought out of malice, but necessity. It's also why the mark on Noriko's neck at the end is the type of scar that gets passed on (like in Princess Mononoke which is also abiut Tatarigami and how that hatred & pain spreads to everything it touches). • Lastly, one of the director's original films, *_Returner_* has been a favourite of mine for years, and also has a human story in the middle of a sci-fi premise. If you enjoyed this, you might enjoy that even though it's got a different tone and is more of an action movie, the human-level focus makes his films just SO good.
Godzilla minus one is my favorite movie. I’m afraid of many foreign people don’t understand that meaning of black rain after Noriko was blown out in Ginza. That was the black rain containing large amounts of radiation that we Japanese experienced in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Please enjoy this movie. But please remember that originally Godzilla was Anti-war films. Today is August 6th, the day the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. We, the citizens of Hiroshima, together with the many people who visited Hiroshima for this day, spend this day in requiem. Thank you.
@JustJake91 Hey Jake just wanted to say I've enjoyed your presence in all of the Godzilla reactions. There's certain details you've said to the crew throughout all these reactions that I wasn't aware of either, so thanks for that!
@@devincole4977 Thank you, I try to keep my information to a minimum during reactions and loop them in later, still learning how to be the best in my limited time on screen but your kind words help.
I had the luck to catch this movie when it was in theaters and man it was something. This movie deserved more awards, I knew it would be good but it blew my expectations right out of the water. This is the only Godzilla movie where I cared about the humans and wanted to see Godzilla get taken down. The destruction, desperation, acting, story was just absolutely phenomenal all the way through. I get chills every time seeing Godzillas atomic beam in ginza and the third act had me at the edge of my seat. A definite 10/10 movie for sure
For me, the real breakout character in this film is Sumiko, who quickly evolves from her Karen-esque introduction into a caring-- if brusque-- friend and neighbor. Her sacrificing of her prized stash of rice to feed Akiko... followed by Noriko's deep bow of respect... is one of the movie's most moving moments.
The two actors who played Shikishima and Doc started their acting career as a child actor and they were really really famous back then. They were like Japanese ideal sons from different generations. You know sometime being in this industry from the childhood messes up your head. So I'm really glad that their success didn't ruin them and they've got recognized by the world with this movie!
The doctor was a an underrated internationally but Ryunosuke Kamiki was already recognized outside Japan because of his Portraying as Perfect Copy of Sojiro Seta for Rurouni Kenshin Live Action and Takeru Amaya for As the Gods will, and also he is a great seiyu for Ghibli films and won the Seiyuu award for his Performance on Kimi no Nawa
@@jhomsubiaga-cabaro5715 yes, both of them always have been very very famous in Japan, especially Kamiki is incredibly talented in many ways as you said. But, you know not many people outside of Japan wouldn't know what Kenshin is and wouldn't care the subs version/the original voice actors of those animes even if they had watched them. This time it's an Oscar movie! So you get my point right? I'm very happy to hear that you know so much about his works! I'm a big fan of him!
"Helpless people on a subway train scream, bug-eyed as he looks in on them. He picks up a bus and he throws it back down, as he wades through the buildings towards the center of town..." They nailed that scene.
I’ve seen dozens of reactions to this movie now and you guys are the only ones to realize that those things in the water were fish with their stomachs hanging out of their mouths. I knew what they were right away and couldn’t figure out why nobody else did. Thank you for all your great reactions and for having brains that work!
@@YorkJonhson I like this ending, but I do think there could have been a clearer visual that shows how even after a war ends its effects linger on. I think she just looks too pristine for someone who got blown away by essentially a bomb, even Godzilla had a bunch of damage on him despite his healing Factor. A sequel would undermine a lot of what this movie did really well, at least a direct one with the same characters.
@@YorkJonhson I personally just see it as an easter egg, if they ever go for a sequel. I doubt it'll be as good as the first. but I would be glad if I'm wrong.
God, I'm glad they're reacting to this movie. It's a masterpiece. I'd never seen a Godzilla movie before, and this one has set an impossible standards for any others I might watch.
Dear American Godzilla fans, I am a Japanese Godzilla fan. Japan's Godzilla series came to an end with Godzilla Final Wars, but I think it was created with new talent as Shin Godzilla and Godzilla Minus One. The title "Minus" in Godzilla Minus One means that Japan, which had lost everything after the war, is threatened to become even more negative, but the film was released one year earlier than its original 70th anniversary in consideration of Godzilla and Kong being released in 2024. It is said that it also has meaning. Director Yamazaki has officially mentioned that the birthmark on Noriko's neck is Godzilla cells, and it seems that the director is also interested in making a sequel. I would also like to watch with interest. Thank you for your review!
We're living in the golden age of Godzilla. With Toho focusing on thoughtful, serious iterations and America going full camp. It's the best of both worlds, and I for one, don't want the ride to stop. ... I can't wait to see what Toho does next.
Godzilla back to being the "harbinger of the apocalypse" as originally intended, plus a deeply emotional and compelling human story equals the best Godzilla film since the original Gojira in 1954.
Something about the ending where he is reunited with the women he loves. If you're wondering how she survived with such little damage, according to the director there is a black spot on her neck that you can just barely see, that spot is G-Cells aka Godzillla's cells. We see in the very end of the movie Godzilla is regenerating. So if what the director said is true then she is possibly infected with Godzilla's cells that allowed her to body to heal itself. My theory as to how she possibly got infected with Godzilla's cells, is the scene where he bites into the train car she is in with his mouth. The movie shows that the inside of his mouth is a weak spot and can be more easily damaged. So what I am thinking is when he bit into the train some of his DNA got the train and when she fell into the water and the train was dropped behind her that is when she was infected with his cells.
This makes WAY more sense than all the articles claiming that it’s supposed to be a “somber reminder of how radiation can impact the human body”. That common theory made me hate that final shot because the marking looks animated and fantastical, not realistic or sad. Thank you.
I've watched all the Godzilla films multiple times since I was a kid. In the late 80's, early 90's one of the cable channels had a 3 day marathon every May. Minus One is probably one of the best Godzilla movies I've ever seen. Not just the story but the thought put into fighting Godzilla with something that was realistic for the time period.
It’s a realistic take on fighting Godzilla, and the bubbles are a great callback to the Oxygen Destroyer from 1954. I don’t know if it was intentional but it’s amazing how they came up with something the people might actually try but still homages the original film
@@wahn10 It really isn't. Japan is notorious for overworking their employees. Even worse than USA. They basically do overtime without the pay. That's the main reason it was done for so cheap. They overworked their workers
@@bryzantine1571 That may be so, but the director worked just as hard. He was also the VFX supervisor, which cut down the people normally needed for approval, and saved time and money. But everyone involved in the movie poured their hearts into it, because they realized it was special.
Godzilla would usually be one of those franchises I would never be able to convince my dad to watch, but I got him to come to this movie with me and he absolutely loved it. Amazing film.
No reason to cry because I’ve seen real tragedy my whole life just by living in Memphis. Watched one of my best friends get a whole clip emptied in him at age eleven then watched another friend get taken out at age 14. Plus many more where I just became numb to stuff.
I think if he was an enthusiast, he would have mentioned Takao was very special, one of the largest heavy cruisers in the Japanese fleet, which could hit Godzilla with five twin turrets of 20 cm guns, the heaviest armament of any heavy cruiser in the world at the time. This probably would have been the most powerful warship they could have used.That's why the "kid" Mizushima and the others are so excited and hopeful that it is coming. Instead of that, he just said it was a heavy cruiser that was used for target practice in the Phillipines, the kind of thing a typical TH-camr might read somewhere while they were trying to get ready for a TH-cam video about something they know next to nothing about (as usual). So I don't think he is a military ship enthusiast.
Watching this movie in the cinema made me realise just how much crap we’ve been forced to watch in at least the last 10 years. How G-1 didn’t sweep the Oscars boggles my mind.
This is, hands down, the greatest Godzilla movie I have ever seen. The human drama and acting is phenomenal, the atomic breath is pure perfection with the slightly delayed explosions, the SFX/VFX are incredible ESPECIALLY for having such a low budget. It's honestly among the best movies I've seen, period. It is *cinema*, mastered at every step.
As someone who has Jaws as his favorite movie and a lifelong Godzilla fan, I absolutely adore this movie. Not only the sequence where Godzilla attacked the boats was heavily inspired by Jaws, but even his "death" felt similar to the shark since both of them had this bellow sound effect once they started to sink
The director confirmed that the black spots on Noriko's neck are Godzilla cells and they are the reason she survived the shockwave. They regenerated her vital organs, preventing her from dying.
just random fact i find it interseting (and spoiler alert): Why do all people give salute when Godzilla falls? They see Godzilla as "Tatarigami," but what is Tatarigami? Tatarigami are powerful spirits that bring death, destruction, fire, famine, plague, war, and all forms of calamity. This concept was mentioned by the director, Takashi Yamazaki: "There is a concept in Japan called ‘tatarigami’ [spirits that bring calamity]. There are good gods, and there are bad gods. Godzilla is half-monster, but it’s also half-god." As far as I know, Japanese people respect both concepts of bad and good gods as part of their culture and religion. The Kyoto Gion Festival or Gion Matsuri, a festival dating back to 869, which originated as an attempt by the people of Kyoto to conduct a purification ritual and appease the gods during an epidemic. The description of Tatarigami is represented in Godzilla, and the attempt to stop Godzilla is not just an act to kill the monster, but also an act to purify and appease the spirit of calamity. That's why people give Godzilla a form of respect by saluting it, hoping that it is finally appeased and gone peacefully. Another random fact theory : This spirit of calamity cannot be killed, but only appeased, as it is part of nature. Someday, it will emerge again to bring calamities, and it symbolized by the end scene of Godzilla regeneration.
HOLY CRAP, do I believe the Oscar hype!!!! Minus One was beautifully done and animated. I wasn't expecting Noriko to have survived, but those Godzilla cells literally saved her neck.
@danieldickson8591 I disagree. Why was she only one of the dozens of people that went into shock? You would think shock from fear would not be exclusive to one person.
Apparently the director wrote a novel that supports this. I can't find a copy that has a good translation since it's written in Japanese, but I remember reading about this scene and it says something like Noriko not caring to live anymore in this scene, probably because of shock or hopelessness about what she just saw and how she narrowly escaped.
1:06:07 Godzilla was originally, supposedly, the 'bad guy' in the 1954 movie. It was a curse sent down by gods as a consequence and punishment for warmongers. It was less of a monster movie and more of a disaster movie. But if I'm not mistaken, the godzilla became very popular and people started to make more godzilla movies, but 'dumbed down' where godzilla became some sort of anti-hero, and it became a trend. This movie was the first and only movie to portray godzilla exactly as it was in the 1954 movie.
You could say this about Shin Godzilla as well, that's another fully antagonistic incarnation of Godzilla, basically a natural disaster caused by chemical dumping that mutated a creature into the Godzilla that appears in the film.
The orignal Japanese version of Godzilla has a strong anti-nuclear weapons message. Godzilla is essentially the punishment for the proliferation of nuclear weapons. The first Godzilla movie came out only 9 years after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. So the scars where still pretty fresh and nearly all the people living in Japan at the time remember it happening and living through it. In some later Godzilla movies where he was an anti-hero he was nature's punishment for polluting the planet. Other movies he was the defender of the planet.
I read some more on kamikaze after watching this, and it is estimated that in the late stages of the war between 1/4 and 1/3 of pilots never completed their mission, either feigning plane issues or reporting no viable targets. Some would even fly out of sight, and then ditch their planes. Once they got past the initial volunteers for the kamikaze, those who followed tended to join out of peer pressure.
This movie has revealed the next great movie director, Takashi Yamazaki. Every aspect of this movie was masterful. Not just the best Godzilla movie, but certainly one of the best movies of any genre in the past decade.
Something this movie hits home better than most other Godzilla films is that Godzilla being a metaphor for war and nuclear weapons. His “atomic breath” literally making mushroom clouds was haunting
I didn't even need to understand or see the German. I figured with the way they lingered on the seat, the casual mention of ejection seats earlier in the movie and how the guy was like "one more thing" and they pulled away so we couldn't hear what was actually said made it pretty obvious he was being told the plane had an ejection seat.
First and foremost, this movies is a love story, just with Godzilla added. It could easily have been a movie where the antagonist would be war itself. And that's why it's SO good. The recent Monsterverse movies all add a lot of characters, but I personally don't care for any of those characters, and whether they live or die. Those movies focus on being monster-movies first, and good stories second. This movie is the exact opposite, and that's why it's the best Godzilla movie ever (in my opinion - Shin Godzilla is also very good).
This movie is the only one where Godzilla has truly scared me! That soulless fury in his eyes as he chases the boat. Or the rear up in the water. The nuke mushroom cloud after blasting the tanks in Ginza. I also saw in him that he's now in mindless pain from being burned. Monster version, if you will, of the Keloid or burn calluses that survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had. So I feel sorry for him, but at the same time his rage is still a terror to behold. I saw it in theaters and I couldn't move for a bit when the credits began. Emotional whiplash was too much.
Godzilla is TATARIGAMI as mention Takashi Yamazaki in a interview, TATARIGAMI is a spirit (high-dimensional being) that continued to be feared even after it died a violent death as a human. There is also a theory that he is the incarnation of a heroic spirit who died during WW2. (TATARIGAMI is also depicted in Ghibli's Princess Mononoke. The black stain is common in both films.) Although TATARIGAMI is a wild spirit and is feared and shunned, if it is carefully enshrined, it can become a powerful guardian deity. They are the gods that are worshiped. How would you describe the existence between God and living things as follows? The director and CG artists spent more than six months developing Godzilla's walking style.
This isn't only a phenomenal Godzilla movie but a phenomenal movie in general. Usually the human characters are the weakest part of kaiju movies but this is a beautifully painful and compelling human story that happens to involve Godzilla, it's just phenomenal. Everything about this movie is amazing from start to finish but my personal highlight was me perfectly calling what the fighter plane at the end was going to be. When Noda said it's a unique one I immediately thought "What if it's that rear wing pusher prop interceptor prototype they built towards the end of the war?" and that was in fact exactly the one. Using the Shinden for the finale is perfect in every way, it not only makes sense both in and out of universe that it would be available but it offers a perfect full circle moment, most obviously with the ejection seat but also the fact that the shots of it taking off perfectly mirror the opening shots of Shikishima landing on Odo Island. It's so beautiful and perfect I barely even have the words to describe it, it made me so incredibly happy as an airplane nerd but it just worked so well. I absolutely agree that this movie should have been nominated for many more Oscars than just VFX, especially the acting is phenomenal.
Whats the last Godzilla movie to bring you to tears? Godzilla Minus One was amazing. Unlike the American Godzilla movies you actually care about the actors. Fabulous movie.
When the bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki the explosion seeded the clouds and caused a Black Rain(Kuroi Ame) to fall shortly after. That rain, filled with radioactive particulates coated everything. Because homes and infrastructure were destroyed survivors could not change clothes so those particulates remained on them. With few sources of running water people boiled what they could find to drink, but the Black Rain had washed into the water they found and unknown to them boiling would not remove the radioactive particulates. So that rain that falls after Godzilla strikes with the nuclear breath has very deep significance in Japan as detailed in a 1965 novel named Black Rain. The book was made into a Japanese film in 1989 but it was overshadowed in the US by Ridley Scott's film of the same name, which also came out that year, about two American Cops who go to Japan and become embroiled in a case when the prisoner they were extraditing to Japan escapes.
I've already watched the movie multiple times and it was fun watching the crew's reaction but it hit me when Calvin asked Jake to hand him a tissue. He always seems to be the most thick-skinned among the members but he cried more than usual in this reaction.
I was a bit thrown off when the film subtitles had the doctor (who as a weapons developer should have known better) asking for the best _jet_ fighter mechanic to work on the new prototype _prop_ plane.
His first appearance on Odo Island and the chase in the water were TERRIFYING in theaters. The expression in his eyes was so stark and intense, I felt genuine dread, not just “haha, cool Godzilla”. Definitely agree that this movie should have gotten way more Oscar nominations than just visual effects. Also, the actors for both Shikishima and Tachibana were in the Rurouni Kenshin live action movies, and it was the same composer, Naoki Wada!
Thank yall so much for reacting to this movie, this is probably my favorite reaction ever and I was hoping and waiting for this. Go go Godzilla forever
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It's really interesting having thisvand Oppenheimer come out the same year and are not connected but feel like they belong together. In Oppenheimer he said "I have become Death. Destroyer of worlds" but in this it's more like he created Death. Destroyer of worlds
After the legendary godzilla films came out. Toho just walks in, sunglasses on. "Let me show you how it's really done"
You guys have to check out Ultraman rising
@@-Gatorscanspit they have done it, it's up on patreon/beyond
Car sounds in vid. Why?
This movie deserved way more Oscars than just visual effects. It’s a freaking masterpiece.
Sadly Toho did not submit more categories. I feel they could have gotten more
@graphicdlaz and it really shows!
Honestly the vfx might be like the fourth or fifth thing it should've even been nominated for
best foreign film easily, possibly best director. this thing could have stomped through such a mediocre film season
They didn't want it to compete with the films they thought were more deserving. besides, it won Best Picture at the Japanese Academy Awards.
Underrated moment: Tachibanas relief when he hears Shikisima survived. He spent the war fixing planes so pilots could fly off and die. And now he's finally used his skills to save a life. And he can put his guilt to rest as well.
Damn u right, that is awesome
「桜花」という自爆用飛行機を設計したエンジニアがいます。
彼は、軍の命令を良心から拒否しました。しかし、設計を強要されました。
終戦後も、彼は強い罪悪感を持ってい生きねばなりませんでした。2度と兵器に関わらない事を誓った彼は、鉄道会社に就職しました。
彼は、世界初の高速鉄道の設計に参加しました。新幹線タイプ0と呼ばれる鉄道の誕生です。
His relief was palpable, amazing actor and character.
Yeah, that was my favorite part of the movie. You can tell on his face he's never heard someone report that before.
LIVE. One of the Best One Liner on this Film
"To have never gone to war is something to be proud of."
That's a powerful line.
The movie is full of memorable lines. The writing is top-notch, even in translation.
That and the “My war isn’t over yet” were the standout lines for me in this film. You could take Godzilla out of this movie and it’d still be an excellent story.
"I forbid you to die."- That made me tear up when Noriko said that. The emotion, the pain. It makes sense why this movie won the Oscar it deserved.
@@danielmalone4820I agree.
I like that in this work, Godzilla is not just a monster but symbolizes PTSD caused by war, and that fighting Godzilla means facing and overcoming one's own trauma head on with the help of Noriko and the others.
what time it was in the vidio?
Can we all just agree, the real GOAT of the film is Sumiko? She loses everything and everyone, including 3 children, and still manages to not only forgive Shikishima's failure but continues to help him and Noriko and Akiko through everything like an absolute rock?
Best Auntie Sumiko 😊
Agreed. And the actress who played Sumiko was amazing.
All the named cast were stellar. They were all vivid and nuanced and felt real, and we came to care about all of them.
I absolutely love how her reaction at the end of the film is the opposite of her reaction to Shikishima at the beginning.
She hated him for not "doing his duty " and dying for his country.
But by the end she's hitting him for not only potentially giving up on Akiko rather than living for her but also potentially not finding out about Noriko being alive.
Just a reliable sassy neighborhood Auntie Sumiko was. She was mad, and grieving but she wasn’t cruel enough to leave those kids, her heart for children saved them and they became family. Such a great character.
Thank you for rolling the credit😊
FunFact:The scene where Noriko and Shikishima reunite in Ginza is based on a real experience of Director Yamazaki. On the day when all transportation was paralyzed due to the Great East Japan Earthquake, he unexpectedly reunited with his wife in a crowd. This personal experience inspired him to include it in the script.
That’s awesome, I thought it was unrealistic in the movie but it’s really cool to know it was a real experience for the director, based on a true emergency no less!
The male lead should have gotten an oscar for that screaming scene in the black rain alone..that was the most chilling and scary psychological pain scene I have seen in my life
Damn straight!
Ryuunosuke Kamiki also does voice work in anime. Nobody does screams of rage and anguish better than anime voice actors.
He’s an anime voice actor! Which makes sense cause out of the whole cast his voice sounds like he does anime roles (and then I found out he’s the voice actor for Taki in the iconic Kimi No Na Wa/ Your Name film!!)
Unfortunately I read other comments in other reaction channels saying his acting was so bad…
@@Entxq_ damn those channels have no taste, he did his role so well and you can see his emotions so clearly. He really sold the feelings of someone who has survivors guilt.
@@nikeadidas9555 oh I meant the comments section of some TH-cam reactors not the TH-cam reaction channels themselves but yeah :’)
There's a kamikaze pilot named Yuji Sasaki, who survived nine kamikaze missions and died at age 93. He simply dropped the bomb and returned to base rather than hitting the ship with the whole plane. Because he did hit some ships, the military couldn't just throw him to jail, and he got some friends to cover him too.
His story got published at 2010s and made people realized how the military forced these kamikaze pilots to die for literally nothing.
That is a really interesting story I wish I knew before going into this reaction, thank you for this.
Do you mean Kaoru Hasegawa. Yuji Sasaki is a Luger who competed at the 1992 Winter Olympics
thats what government do...forced soldiers to die for fun
"made people realized how the military forced these kamikaze pilots to die for literally nothing"
With all due respect, I'm pretty sure people already knew that for a long time....
You could say the same thing for all 58,000 Americans that died in Vietnam.
"We leave the future to you." Great moment. They didnt expect to live and they wanted the kid to make it.
that moment made me cry 😭
They planned to live, but prepared to die
The translator did an amazing job! The literal translation of this line in Japanese is "I leave this country in your hands."
Personally, I find Director Yamazaki's scripts to be straightforward, but his use of dialogue is poor, often being overly explanatory and lacking in emotional depth.
In this film as well, there were honestly many scenes that were overly explanatory, but the translation did a wonderful job, making the work better as a whole.
And then the music and the scene cut to the warehouse with the gun. Damn it's so good.
That line is the exact part where the tears come for me, no matter what all 4 times I've seen it, it gets me there every time 😂
That scene of Koichi screaming after the explosion must be one of the most devastating things I have seen in my life, there are many movies that I regret not having seen in theaters, this is one of them, one of the best Kaijus movies of history
That whole scene in theaters was absolutely chilling.
I saw it four times. The last time in black and white. The best cinematic experience I've had since watching Terminator 2 in the theaters in 1991.
Too bad I wasn't able to see it in IMAX though.
Black rain is symbolic of the A bomb attacks. They say after the bomb the rain was black. It traumatized an already traumatized people. There's even a 90s cop movie set in Japan called Black rain (Michael Douglas)
Ever in your life or just movie wise?
Cloverfield could learn a hell of a lot of lessons from this movie. They should remake Cloverfield with this level of emotion and storytelling.
You know it's good when a Godzilla movie makes you cry. I went with my dad and son who both cried during the movie. 15 million dollars goes a long way with this director and crew!
In the theater there were little gasps and murmurs throughout the movie, but when the breathe was released and decimated the city, it was stone cold silence and shock. Everyone was frozen until the next scene started. Amazing experience.
We've never seen such a devastating atomic breath scene. It's practically an exhaled atom bomb.
@@danieldickson8591 Actual ATOMIC breath
Woah
There were mothers who brought their kids to see this when my friend and I went, those same moms were crying by the end.
I said this in The Normies reaction, but you can tell this Godzilla’s behavior was based on the director’s cat. It also allows you to view his actions as one of two ways.
A) His destruction felt more curious and playful than anger. He gets distracted by his own explosions. Even when killing people, he feels like a cat being proud about killing a mouse.
It honestly makes him more scary that he both is and isn’t aware of the carnage he’s wrought.
B) He is intelligent and sentient like most other incarnations of Godzilla, and is taking his anger out on Japan for the nuke. There's a great fan-monologue about Godzilla's motivations I always loved... "I was the last of my kind, and you turned me into the first. That is why I punish you... because I never though I could be made more alone."
according to the movie's novelization, this Godzilla is sapient from the start of the movie, entirely aware that humanity is responsible for his mutation, and is actively getting revenge.
No, the second one is correct. Godzilla is sadistic as hell in this movie. He's angry, he's smart, and he's out for blood.
The director said he chose to make Godzilla much smaller than the Monsterverse version, so its interactions with us would be more personal. We aren't just collateral damage, it's actively killing us.
In this specific movie saying Godzilla is playful and curious while comparing it to a cat is the dumbest thing I read in a while🤣
Damn bro! That's why I love youtube comments. That little nugget of analysis has changed my outlook on the whole movie.
Takashi Yamazaki who was the director, writer, and VFX supervisor for this film was told by Steven Spielberg that not only did he love it, he saw this film in IMAX 3 times.
He also confirmed that the black substance crawling up Noriko’s neck in the final shot was in fact Godzilla’s cells, implying that she was able to survive because she had mostly regenerated just like Godzilla. And she likely got those cells because the news voiceover said parts of Godzilla came off him when he was being shot at by the tanks.
Yamazaki also apparently has a solid film resumé so it was cool that he was praised by high level Hollywood directors. Even Gareth Edwards who directed Godzilla 2014 said that he was jealous of how much better Godzilla Minus One was to his film
yep and there are theories that IF this movie ever had any sequel she can be taken as an origin to Biollante
If she is infected with G-Cells it will be interesting to see how that plays out in a sequel. Maybe she has a psychic link.
I have a feeling a sequel would take place about 5 to 10 years after the event of Minis One, sure to how much of Godzilla's body he had to regenerate.
I think she got infected when she was in the train car Godzilla bit into and fell into the water with the car falling after her. The inside of Godzilla's mouth is shown to be more prone to taking damage.
@@Spongebrain97 This isn't even the first time he's used Godzilla in films he's done.. A well-received CGI Godzilla appears in a dream sequence in his film Always: Sunset on Third Street. He also did the Godzilla film part of the Godzilla: The Ride attraction.
@@Blackferret66 However, in that movie, right after that scene a child remarks, "You're just ripping off Godzilla" implying that the monster in that sequence wasn't Godzilla. I know, I know, it has all the Godzilla bells and whistles, but if we're supposed to think it's Godzilla, they shouldn't have the next damn line in the movie be "You're ripping off Godzilla" instead of something like "Hey! That's just Godzilla!".
For the first time ever, I was fully vested in the story of the humans in a Godzilla movie.
I was always fully vested in their story. I was just content to leave their story at "getting what the species deserves". Still am.
I love that the tissue box came out and everyone grabbed some 😭 Great movie and great reaction and discussion 😊
I love how they show military veteran ptsd and panic attacks in this movie, especially in the scene where he starts to tell himself that maybe he died already.
I usually hate when they focus on humans in monster movies, but the way they did it in this movie was just pure perfection. Hands down my favourite Godzilla movie. I am sooooo looking forward to a sequel especially to see how they explain the neck shot on Nariko. I'm assuming it's to insinuate that she's been infected with Godzilla's healing ability. One of a handful of movies that made me cry. I literally have NO criticisms
The film starts with a compelling story and characters, and adds Godzilla to the mix. Substitute some other disaster for Godzilla, and it would still be a great story. That's what Hollywood today doesn't grasp.
Don't try to make a great monster movie, just make the best *movie* you can.
@@danieldickson8591 Hollywood still makes a lot of great movies, in fact, many of them have been in theaters this year, it's just not all of them are from big name franchises. And as for American Godzilla movies, it's clear that they intend for those films to just be big action monster smash fun and not exactly deep character exploration narratives, I mean the closest thing the American Godzilla franchise has come to that is the Monarch show
What monster movie doesn't focus on humans?
It's setting up Biollante, which is a corrupted Gojira-human hybrid. I personally don't think a sequel for this film should be made. It has a beautiful ending, and adding more shouldn't be necessary nor wise.
This easily won my film of the year. Super emotional and epic experience, I wish I could see it for the first time again.
A couple fun facts that weren't mentioned:
• The Shinden aircraft was built as a 1:1 accurate replica and anonymously donated to a Japanese WWII museum and it was only revealed that it was made by Toho for the film after Minus One released.
• The fish showing up dead near when Godzilla arrives are what the professor sees and gives him the inspiration for why the pressurization & depressurization tactic is his plan for defeating Godzilla.
• Sumiko initially berating Shikishima for not carrying out his duty as a kamikaze pilot sets up for her experiencing that same frustration and fear when she thinks he DOES do that at the end of the film. Even though she lost her old children and is left with Akiko, it shows that she genuinely processed her emotion and pain exactly as much as Shikishima did.
• Godzilla is portrayed as a curse god (Tatarigami) where the physical and emotional trauma lashes out at everything around them, even if they're all suffering from the same pain. It's why Godzilla's wrath gets directed at the Japanese instead of the Americans the same way we see with characters like Sumiko in the aftermath of the war. That's why they salute Godzilla as he's crumbling into the ocean, as that type of entity isn't fought out of malice, but necessity. It's also why the mark on Noriko's neck at the end is the type of scar that gets passed on (like in Princess Mononoke which is also abiut Tatarigami and how that hatred & pain spreads to everything it touches).
• Lastly, one of the director's original films, *_Returner_* has been a favourite of mine for years, and also has a human story in the middle of a sci-fi premise. If you enjoyed this, you might enjoy that even though it's got a different tone and is more of an action movie, the human-level focus makes his films just SO good.
Returner was WILD.
@@ArcaJ The over-the-top-ness of the main villain still makes for some of the _best_ anime-but-in-a-live-action-film moments of all time.
Pretty sure I have Returner in my DVD collection. I will have to track it down.
ドクター中松という96歳のyoutuberは元海軍で実際に震電を作ってた人です。
かれは東京都知事選に出馬しましたが負けました。
Didn't even realized the fish were the inspiration for Noda's plan. Great detail! But your Tatarigami explanation made no sense whatsoever
Never thought I'd cry because of a Godzilla movie...the last scene broke me
I witnessed many people were crying in the theater. A dumb great movie!
Godzilla Minus One: We're sad for the people...
Godzilla X Kong: We're sad for the buildings...
Tbf, GxK did got most of us question how many people were kill in every monster fight 😅😂
The buildings didn't fare very well in this movie either.
Seriously,I felt upset when Kong and Godzilla destroyed the Pyramids of Giza. Just felt unnecessary
well they are movies with entirely different intentions, so they both did exactly what they wanted to do
GxK: I'm sad I wasted time and money on it lol
Godzilla minus one is my favorite movie. I’m afraid of many foreign people don’t understand that meaning of black rain after Noriko was blown out in Ginza. That was the black rain containing large amounts of radiation that we Japanese experienced in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Please enjoy this movie. But please remember that originally Godzilla was Anti-war films.
Today is August 6th, the day the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. We, the citizens of Hiroshima, together with the many people who visited Hiroshima for this day, spend this day in requiem.
Thank you.
Thank you for the info!
God I love when people prove big Kaiju movies don’t just need to be big cgi fights but grounded real stories!
They can be both
@@laarkientje6543 This would have been a good movie even without any Godzilla.
Still love those big CGI fights! Sometimes all I want is big monsters duking it out.
@@cthulhucollector IDK about all that
“Prove” as if the first Godzilla movie ever wasn’t exactly that.
You know it's a good movie when all the crew is there for a reaction.
i’m sorry but who is jake? i clearly don’t watch enough
@@chance757 I have been the production tech behind the scenes for almost 3 years now and only have been in a handful of reactions so easy to miss me.
@JustJake91 Hey Jake just wanted to say I've enjoyed your presence in all of the Godzilla reactions. There's certain details you've said to the crew throughout all these reactions that I wasn't aware of either, so thanks for that!
@@devincole4977 Thank you, I try to keep my information to a minimum during reactions and loop them in later, still learning how to be the best in my limited time on screen but your kind words help.
@@JustJake91what is your opinion on Godzilla: Singular Point?
I had the luck to catch this movie when it was in theaters and man it was something. This movie deserved more awards, I knew it would be good but it blew my expectations right out of the water. This is the only Godzilla movie where I cared about the humans and wanted to see Godzilla get taken down. The destruction, desperation, acting, story was just absolutely phenomenal all the way through. I get chills every time seeing Godzillas atomic beam in ginza and the third act had me at the edge of my seat. A definite 10/10 movie for sure
For me, the real breakout character in this film is Sumiko, who quickly evolves from her Karen-esque introduction into a caring-- if brusque-- friend and neighbor. Her sacrificing of her prized stash of rice to feed Akiko... followed by Noriko's deep bow of respect... is one of the movie's most moving moments.
The two actors who played Shikishima and Doc started their acting career as a child actor and they were really really famous back then. They were like Japanese ideal sons from different generations. You know sometime being in this industry from the childhood messes up your head. So I'm really glad that their success didn't ruin them and they've got recognized by the world with this movie!
The doctor was a an underrated internationally but Ryunosuke Kamiki was already recognized outside Japan because of his Portraying as Perfect Copy of Sojiro Seta for Rurouni Kenshin Live Action and Takeru Amaya for As the Gods will, and also he is a great seiyu for Ghibli films and won the Seiyuu award for his Performance on Kimi no Nawa
@@jhomsubiaga-cabaro5715 yes, both of them always have been very very famous in Japan, especially Kamiki is incredibly talented in many ways as you said. But, you know not many people outside of Japan wouldn't know what Kenshin is and wouldn't care the subs version/the original voice actors of those animes even if they had watched them. This time it's an Oscar movie! So you get my point right? I'm very happy to hear that you know so much about his works! I'm a big fan of him!
@@sensen2299 yes sirs , I'm also a Big Fan of him since Detective Q 😂
"Helpless people on a subway train scream, bug-eyed as he looks in on them. He picks up a bus and he throws it back down, as he wades through the buildings towards the center of town..." They nailed that scene.
Those lyrics did not escape me
OOOOH NO! There goes TO-KYO!
@@alexsilva28 GO GO GODZILAA!!
@@tytoalbasoren9457 yeee-eeeeh
Godzilla Minus One brought so many grown men to tears.
I’ve seen dozens of reactions to this movie now and you guys are the only ones to realize that those things in the water were fish with their stomachs hanging out of their mouths. I knew what they were right away and couldn’t figure out why nobody else did. Thank you for all your great reactions and for having brains that work!
I love the moment of people crying because he got a happy ending and then-- wait, hang on, what the hell was that on her neck????
Godzilla cells
I wouldn't be opposed to a sequel, but will honestly be pretty miffed if the catharsis of the happy ending is undone for the sake of it.
@@YorkJonhson I like this ending, but I do think there could have been a clearer visual that shows how even after a war ends its effects linger on. I think she just looks too pristine for someone who got blown away by essentially a bomb, even Godzilla had a bunch of damage on him despite his healing Factor. A sequel would undermine a lot of what this movie did really well, at least a direct one with the same characters.
@@YorkJonhson I personally just see it as an easter egg, if they ever go for a sequel. I doubt it'll be as good as the first. but I would be glad if I'm wrong.
God, I'm glad they're reacting to this movie. It's a masterpiece. I'd never seen a Godzilla movie before, and this one has set an impossible standards for any others I might watch.
1:04:36 that last roar in the IMAX theater scared the SHIT out of me-wasn’t expecting it!!!
Haha me too, I expected the roar to be there but I didn't expect it to be that loud
Dear American Godzilla fans, I am a Japanese Godzilla fan. Japan's Godzilla series came to an end with Godzilla Final Wars, but I think it was created with new talent as Shin Godzilla and Godzilla Minus One. The title "Minus" in Godzilla Minus One means that Japan, which had lost everything after the war, is threatened to become even more negative, but the film was released one year earlier than its original 70th anniversary in consideration of Godzilla and Kong being released in 2024. It is said that it also has meaning. Director Yamazaki has officially mentioned that the birthmark on Noriko's neck is Godzilla cells, and it seems that the director is also interested in making a sequel. I would also like to watch with interest. Thank you for your review!
Thank you for clearing that up for us.
We're living in the golden age of Godzilla. With Toho focusing on thoughtful, serious iterations and America going full camp.
It's the best of both worlds, and I for one, don't want the ride to stop.
...
I can't wait to see what Toho does next.
Godzilla back to being the "harbinger of the apocalypse" as originally intended, plus a deeply emotional and compelling human story equals the best Godzilla film since the original Gojira in 1954.
Something about the ending where he is reunited with the women he loves. If you're wondering how she survived with such little damage, according to the director there is a black spot on her neck that you can just barely see, that spot is G-Cells aka Godzillla's cells. We see in the very end of the movie Godzilla is regenerating.
So if what the director said is true then she is possibly infected with Godzilla's cells that allowed her to body to heal itself.
My theory as to how she possibly got infected with Godzilla's cells, is the scene where he bites into the train car she is in with his mouth. The movie shows that the inside of his mouth is a weak spot and can be more easily damaged. So what I am thinking is when he bit into the train some of his DNA got the train and when she fell into the water and the train was dropped behind her that is when she was infected with his cells.
This makes WAY more sense than all the articles claiming that it’s supposed to be a “somber reminder of how radiation can impact the human body”. That common theory made me hate that final shot because the marking looks animated and fantastical, not realistic or sad. Thank you.
Don't know about her being in Godzilla's mouth, but I do recall a line of it being said that Godzilla had littered pieces of its flesh all over Tokyo.
I've watched all the Godzilla films multiple times since I was a kid. In the late 80's, early 90's one of the cable channels had a 3 day marathon every May. Minus One is probably one of the best Godzilla movies I've ever seen. Not just the story but the thought put into fighting Godzilla with something that was realistic for the time period.
It’s a realistic take on fighting Godzilla, and the bubbles are a great callback to the Oxygen Destroyer from 1954. I don’t know if it was intentional but it’s amazing how they came up with something the people might actually try but still homages the original film
1:01:25 when a grown man busts out the tissues, you know it hit hard
Real Men Cried on that scene ❤👍
This movie was the theaterical highlight of my year, so amazing
It was ended the '23 with a Bang 💥 and make an After shock in '24 🥶
One of my favorite facts is that the director has been working on perfecting his Godzilla design for like 20 years
It shows. That model is awesome.
@@danieldickson8591 Yeah he looks like an amalgam of all the Godzillas
Godzilla Minus One is a Perfect Film with a Budget of $15,000,000! The Movie got a 98% Rotten Tomato rating and HOLY CRAP it was a Good Movie!!!
It was actually lower than 15!
Totally agree and the budget was between $10 mil and $12 mil. Astonishing.
@@wahn10 It really isn't. Japan is notorious for overworking their employees. Even worse than USA. They basically do overtime without the pay. That's the main reason it was done for so cheap. They overworked their workers
For once the critic and audience score on Rotten Tomatoes was in complete agreement.
@@bryzantine1571 That may be so, but the director worked just as hard. He was also the VFX supervisor, which cut down the people normally needed for approval, and saved time and money. But everyone involved in the movie poured their hearts into it, because they realized it was special.
5 adult men crying like little girls when watching a godzilla movie.... The same happened to me, this is how good this movie is
Godzilla would usually be one of those franchises I would never be able to convince my dad to watch, but I got him to come to this movie with me and he absolutely loved it. Amazing film.
I don't trust people who don't cry at this movie... 😭
Kinda hard to have sympathy for world war 2 japan atleast up to the 50s
@@drewwar9344 Id same its almost Game of Thumb War with Yourself levels of easy to *check notes* be sympathetic about people
No reason to cry because I’ve seen real tragedy my whole life just by living in Memphis. Watched one of my best friends get a whole clip emptied in him at age eleven then watched another friend get taken out at age 14. Plus many more where I just became numb to stuff.
Some people have low empathy....
I am people.
I definitely cried to this, but like, there’s no reason to make it THAT personal.
Everybody gangsta until Godzilla makes you feel emotions
The four members of Shinseimaru are my favorites.
I'd love to see them again.
"Takao was a real ship." Finally! Somebody here is a real Nihon Kaigun enthusiast, 😃
I think if he was an enthusiast, he would have mentioned Takao was very special, one of the largest heavy cruisers in the Japanese fleet, which could hit Godzilla with five twin turrets of 20 cm guns, the heaviest armament of any heavy cruiser in the world at the time. This probably would have been the most powerful warship they could have used.That's why the "kid" Mizushima and the others are so excited and hopeful that it is coming. Instead of that, he just said it was a heavy cruiser that was used for target practice in the Phillipines, the kind of thing a typical TH-camr might read somewhere while they were trying to get ready for a TH-cam video about something they know next to nothing about (as usual). So I don't think he is a military ship enthusiast.
@@TB-wvvvwits a reaction video not an info dump video lol.
The captain is my favorite character! The actor does such a great job delivering every single line.
Easily the best atomic breath scene in any godzilla movie. It's actually atomic not just a big beam
It also looks like Gojira is projectile vomiting, and when it’s done is injured from it, as well as a bit confused.
The Odo Island scene caught me so off guard when I saw it in theaters! What a way to introduce this version of Godzilla!
Watching this movie in the cinema made me realise just how much crap we’ve been forced to watch in at least the last 10 years. How G-1 didn’t sweep the Oscars boggles my mind.
the oscars are rigged BS and not worth anyone's time.
This is, hands down, the greatest Godzilla movie I have ever seen. The human drama and acting is phenomenal, the atomic breath is pure perfection with the slightly delayed explosions, the SFX/VFX are incredible ESPECIALLY for having such a low budget. It's honestly among the best movies I've seen, period. It is *cinema*, mastered at every step.
I cared about the people in G-1 more than any other Godzilla movie. A Great Film that also has Godzilla. Best ever!
to see 5 grown men passing the box of tissues to each other... you know that's got to be a great movie!
As someone who has Jaws as his favorite movie and a lifelong Godzilla fan, I absolutely adore this movie. Not only the sequence where Godzilla attacked the boats was heavily inspired by Jaws, but even his "death" felt similar to the shark since both of them had this bellow sound effect once they started to sink
The director confirmed that the black spots on Noriko's neck are Godzilla cells and they are the reason she survived the shockwave. They regenerated her vital organs, preventing her from dying.
This is the best Godzilla movie to be put to film in the last 3 decades
I liked Godzilla 2014 more
I mean, it is the best Godzilla movie. But that doesn’t mean all the others before were bad.
Shin Godzilla is way better than this
@@kevinmaroney9819 lmao
With out 2014, we wouldn't have gotten this
生きて帰ってくるのは恥と教えられた特攻隊員にとって生きて帰ってこいと言われる描写は過去の過ちを正す意味のある台詞だ。
しかし国の為に戦った特攻隊員を誇りに思う。
日本のゴジラ-1.0を見てくれて、私は嬉しいです😊
just random fact i find it interseting (and spoiler alert): Why do all people give salute when Godzilla falls?
They see Godzilla as "Tatarigami," but what is Tatarigami? Tatarigami are powerful spirits that bring death, destruction, fire, famine, plague, war, and all forms of calamity. This concept was mentioned by the director, Takashi Yamazaki: "There is a concept in Japan called ‘tatarigami’ [spirits that bring calamity]. There are good gods, and there are bad gods. Godzilla is half-monster, but it’s also half-god."
As far as I know, Japanese people respect both concepts of bad and good gods as part of their culture and religion. The Kyoto Gion Festival or Gion Matsuri, a festival dating back to 869, which originated as an attempt by the people of Kyoto to conduct a purification ritual and appease the gods during an epidemic.
The description of Tatarigami is represented in Godzilla, and the attempt to stop Godzilla is not just an act to kill the monster, but also an act to purify and appease the spirit of calamity. That's why people give Godzilla a form of respect by saluting it, hoping that it is finally appeased and gone peacefully.
Another random fact theory : This spirit of calamity cannot be killed, but only appeased, as it is part of nature. Someday, it will emerge again to bring calamities, and it symbolized by the end scene of Godzilla regeneration.
日本の八百万の神は、自然の中に多様な在り方でただ存在します。存在するだけで完璧な存在でもなく人の考える善悪にも左右されない特異な存在です。なにか刺激を与えられると覚醒して人間がいてもいなくても気ままに振舞いそして去っていくだけ。そういった神たちの中で人間世界に害を及ぼす神をタタリガミと呼びます。彼ら神たちに対して基本的に人間は何もできず、たたハリケーンのようにひたすら耐え忍ぶしかない。唯一の方法は「刺激を与えないで覚醒させないこと」「再覚醒しないように神社などで祀り、眠りが継続するように祈る事」です。こういった「人と契約もしない・指導はおろか関係しようともしない」「超越存在としてただ存在するだけ」という神の在り方がわからないと難しいでしょう。
ゴジラは戦争に伴う原爆や人命軽視の戦法等の刺激によって覚醒したタタリガミであり、戦争によってゼロになるまで破壊された日本をさらにマイナスに引きずり落すタタリガミです。それに対して「人命軽視だった戦争の手法」を見直し「プラス」を目指すというのがこの映画だと思います。
HOLY CRAP, do I believe the Oscar hype!!!! Minus One was beautifully done and animated. I wasn't expecting Noriko to have survived, but those Godzilla cells literally saved her neck.
I cried watching this film, too. Beautiful.
I feel like her not running was not out of fear, but to look upon the creature that terrorizes the man she loves and respects.
I felt it was just shock. Koichi had to shake her out of it to get her to run.
@danieldickson8591 I disagree. Why was she only one of the dozens of people that went into shock? You would think shock from fear would not be exclusive to one person.
Apparently the director wrote a novel that supports this. I can't find a copy that has a good translation since it's written in Japanese, but I remember reading about this scene and it says something like Noriko not caring to live anymore in this scene, probably because of shock or hopelessness about what she just saw and how she narrowly escaped.
And thus the trinity is complete! Legendary, Shin & Minus One
I would include og 54 Gojira in there too, maybe even replace Legendary, but yeah.
One of the GREATEST MOVIES EVER... and it's a GODZILLA MOVIE!!!!!!!!!
"Live" that moment broke me
It is like 7 in the morning and already Godzilla is mad at everything. Love it.
1:06:07 Godzilla was originally, supposedly, the 'bad guy' in the 1954 movie. It was a curse sent down by gods as a consequence and punishment for warmongers. It was less of a monster movie and more of a disaster movie. But if I'm not mistaken, the godzilla became very popular and people started to make more godzilla movies, but 'dumbed down' where godzilla became some sort of anti-hero, and it became a trend. This movie was the first and only movie to portray godzilla exactly as it was in the 1954 movie.
You could say this about Shin Godzilla as well, that's another fully antagonistic incarnation of Godzilla, basically a natural disaster caused by chemical dumping that mutated a creature into the Godzilla that appears in the film.
The orignal Japanese version of Godzilla has a strong anti-nuclear weapons message. Godzilla is essentially the punishment for the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
The first Godzilla movie came out only 9 years after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. So the scars where still pretty fresh and nearly all the people living in Japan at the time remember it happening and living through it.
In some later Godzilla movies where he was an anti-hero he was nature's punishment for polluting the planet. Other movies he was the defender of the planet.
A sequel has been decide😁
from japan.
Thank you for watching
I read some more on kamikaze after watching this, and it is estimated that in the late stages of the war between 1/4 and 1/3 of pilots never completed their mission, either feigning plane issues or reporting no viable targets. Some would even fly out of sight, and then ditch their planes.
Once they got past the initial volunteers for the kamikaze, those who followed tended to join out of peer pressure.
This is a retelling of the original film by the original studio. Can't get better than that. This film is why we all love movies.
I'm a Japanese Godzilla fan. Your reactions and comments were really amazing and touching! In Japan, the movie title is Godzilla Minus One
今まで見た中で一番共感のできるリアクションでした
日本人だ！！
It was an emotional movie, these guys got it right bringing out the tissues
Best Godzilla movie so far...
1:04:35 I’m glad you guys rolled the credits because of Godzilla’s roar at the end!😊
Minus One refers to Japan's condition in the film. Japan's condition after war was considered as ground zero, then with Godzilla, it's minus one
This movie has revealed the next great movie director, Takashi Yamazaki. Every aspect of this movie was masterful. Not just the best Godzilla movie, but certainly one of the best movies of any genre in the past decade.
This is the best Godzilla film ever made. Great reaction! 👍🏿
この方達は、ゴジラ映画が大好きで、純粋にこの映画を楽しんでいるのが伝わって来て見ていて好感が持てます。😊
この映画を映画館で観ることはできませんでしたが、Amazon Prime Videoで観ただけでも物凄い迫力がありましたから、きっと映画館で観ていたら興奮で3日間はゴジラ－1.0の話をしていたでしょう😂
日本人として、このゴジラ映画が世界中で評価されていることを嬉しく思います❤
ところで、真ん中の三人のTシャツはとても印象的ですね。STAR WARS、ゴジラ、もう一つはなぜ日本語で“ブロッコリー”と書いてあるのでしょうか…？面白いTシャツですね。😊
This has to be one of my favorite movies ever, its so good
One of the best Godzilla films, if not *the* best. So glad this won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects.
Something this movie hits home better than most other Godzilla films is that Godzilla being a metaphor for war and nuclear weapons. His “atomic breath” literally making mushroom clouds was haunting
"Dying is easy, living is harder!"
But yeah, I also got spoiled by the German. I wasn't sure if he would do it until the end, but I had a hunch.
I didn't even need to understand or see the German. I figured with the way they lingered on the seat, the casual mention of ejection seats earlier in the movie and how the guy was like "one more thing" and they pulled away so we couldn't hear what was actually said made it pretty obvious he was being told the plane had an ejection seat.
First and foremost, this movies is a love story, just with Godzilla added. It could easily have been a movie where the antagonist would be war itself. And that's why it's SO good. The recent Monsterverse movies all add a lot of characters, but I personally don't care for any of those characters, and whether they live or die. Those movies focus on being monster-movies first, and good stories second. This movie is the exact opposite, and that's why it's the best Godzilla movie ever (in my opinion - Shin Godzilla is also very good).
calvin at the end just giving up and defeatedly saying 'gimmie one of those' and being given a tissue is great
The fact this was made on a 15 million dollar budget is wild
This movie is the only one where Godzilla has truly scared me! That soulless fury in his eyes as he chases the boat. Or the rear up in the water. The nuke mushroom cloud after blasting the tanks in Ginza.
I also saw in him that he's now in mindless pain from being burned. Monster version, if you will, of the Keloid or burn calluses that survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had. So I feel sorry for him, but at the same time his rage is still a terror to behold. I saw it in theaters and I couldn't move for a bit when the credits began. Emotional whiplash was too much.
Godzilla is TATARIGAMI as mention Takashi Yamazaki in a interview, TATARIGAMI is a spirit (high-dimensional being) that continued to be feared even after it died a violent death as a human. There is also a theory that he is the incarnation of a heroic spirit who died during WW2. (TATARIGAMI is also depicted in Ghibli's Princess Mononoke. The black stain is common in both films.) Although TATARIGAMI is a wild spirit and is feared and shunned, if it is carefully enshrined, it can become a powerful guardian deity. They are the gods that are worshiped.
How would you describe the existence between God and living things as follows? The director and CG artists spent more than six months developing Godzilla's walking style.
This isn't only a phenomenal Godzilla movie but a phenomenal movie in general. Usually the human characters are the weakest part of kaiju movies but this is a beautifully painful and compelling human story that happens to involve Godzilla, it's just phenomenal. Everything about this movie is amazing from start to finish but my personal highlight was me perfectly calling what the fighter plane at the end was going to be. When Noda said it's a unique one I immediately thought "What if it's that rear wing pusher prop interceptor prototype they built towards the end of the war?" and that was in fact exactly the one. Using the Shinden for the finale is perfect in every way, it not only makes sense both in and out of universe that it would be available but it offers a perfect full circle moment, most obviously with the ejection seat but also the fact that the shots of it taking off perfectly mirror the opening shots of Shikishima landing on Odo Island. It's so beautiful and perfect I barely even have the words to describe it, it made me so incredibly happy as an airplane nerd but it just worked so well. I absolutely agree that this movie should have been nominated for many more Oscars than just VFX, especially the acting is phenomenal.
@24:56 - _"What's he_ (Godzilla) _standing on?"_
He's standing on business.
The power of a true crashout allows godzilla to defy whatever limits he may have
Buoyancy and density. He literally floats on the surface of the water.
Whats the last Godzilla movie to bring you to tears? Godzilla Minus One was amazing. Unlike the American Godzilla movies you actually care about the actors. Fabulous movie.
I've never had a Godzilla make me emotional, let alone cry. Until this one.
Jake's insight into the soundtrack used in some important scenes was absolutely great, I did not know that. Amazing reaction as always. Thank you!
Love his insight in this universe!
When the bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki the explosion seeded the clouds and caused a Black Rain(Kuroi Ame) to fall shortly after. That rain, filled with radioactive particulates coated everything. Because homes and infrastructure were destroyed survivors could not change clothes so those particulates remained on them. With few sources of running water people boiled what they could find to drink, but the Black Rain had washed into the water they found and unknown to them boiling would not remove the radioactive particulates. So that rain that falls after Godzilla strikes with the nuclear breath has very deep significance in Japan as detailed in a 1965 novel named Black Rain. The book was made into a Japanese film in 1989 but it was overshadowed in the US by Ridley Scott's film of the same name, which also came out that year, about two American Cops who go to Japan and become embroiled in a case when the prisoner they were extraditing to Japan escapes.
I've already watched the movie multiple times and it was fun watching the crew's reaction but it hit me when Calvin asked Jake to hand him a tissue. He always seems to be the most thick-skinned among the members but he cried more than usual in this reaction.
That most thick skinned would be Rick. But that's what makes every crew unique in every reactions
Yay subtitles are fixed!!!! I think at least atm......
You saw nothing *Jedi mind trick*
👋 those were not the subtitles your looking for
I was a bit thrown off when the film subtitles had the doctor (who as a weapons developer should have known better) asking for the best _jet_ fighter mechanic to work on the new prototype _prop_ plane.
His first appearance on Odo Island and the chase in the water were TERRIFYING in theaters. The expression in his eyes was so stark and intense, I felt genuine dread, not just “haha, cool Godzilla”. Definitely agree that this movie should have gotten way more Oscar nominations than just visual effects.
Also, the actors for both Shikishima and Tachibana were in the Rurouni Kenshin live action movies, and it was the same composer, Naoki Wada!
Ryunosuke Kamiki and Aoki-san also killed their Role in Rurouni Kenshin 🔥
Thank yall so much for reacting to this movie, this is probably my favorite reaction ever and I was hoping and waiting for this. Go go Godzilla forever