Godzilla Minus One
2023ActionJapanese125 minBRYME editorial score 9/10
Japan, post-war, zero hope. And then the sea begins to move. The best Godzilla film in decades.
Official trailer on YouTube · Rotten Tomatoes Trailers · link verified 16 September 2026.
The story
Set in postwar Japan, a kamikaze pilot returns home to a destroyed country and faces a new terror rising from the sea. It became the first Japanese Godzilla film to win an Oscar.
Details the desk keeps
- It won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects on a budget of about 15 million dollars.
- The film is set in 1945-1947, right after World War Two.
- The director also wrote and edited the film and handled much of the VFX himself.
- The monster design returns to the original 1954 silhouette.
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