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Shin Godzilla (2016)
Directed by Hideaki Anno, Shinji Higuchi
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Most recently watched by AllAboutSteve, sensoria
Overview
When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster’s weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.
Rated PG-13 | Length 120 minutes
Actors
Hiroki Hasegawa | Yutaka Takenouchi | Satomi Ishihara | Kengo Kora | Satoru Matsuo | Mikako Ichikawa | Issey Takahashi | Kanji Tsuda | Shinya Tsukamoto | Toru Nomaguchi | Daisuke Kuroda | Ren Osugi | Kimiko Yo | Akira Emoto | Sei Hiraizumi | Toru Tezuka | Kenichi Yajima | Akira Hamada | Ikuji Nakamura | Tetsu Watanabe | Jun Kunimura | Shingo Tsurumi | Jun Hashimoto | Pierre Taki | Takumi Saito | KREVA | Ken Mitsuishi | Kyusaku Shimada | Taro Suwa | Yuji Suzuki | Arata Furuta | Morooka Moro | Kôsei Katô | Shohei Abe | Keisuke Koide | Hairi Katagiri | Suzuki Matsuo | Takahiro Miura | Yôta Kawase | Ren Mori | Atsuko Maeda | Kazuo Hara | Isshin Inudô | Akira Ogata | Hideaki Anno | Kihachi Okamoto | Mansai Nomura | Mayumi Ogawa | Katsuhiko Yokomitsu | Yusuke Sugiyama | Shô Oyamada | Takashi Kobayashi | Takashi Fujiki | Shōta Taniguchi | Tomonori Mizuno | Keitaro Azumi | Kôichi Miwa | Yuichi Ito | Koji Seki | So Nozawa | Kou Maehara | Masayuki Shida | Charles Glover | Takao Kinoshita | Hisao Kanno | Riko Yonemura | Daisaku Nishino | Toshihito Kokubo | Michiko Iwahashi
Viewing History (seen 9 times)
Viewing Notes
Dr. Strangegojira or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Drop the Bomb
“It’s an underwater vent”
“It’s a small earthquake”
“It’s a whale”
So happy to see this on the big screen again. New 4K looks excellent. Audio is better too with the borrowed classic tracks getting slightly punched up. I didn’t let the misfires bother me as much and the pacing moves it along.
I laughed a lot at the dark comedy of the first half. A few others in my packed screening were also laughing. From the chatter afterwards it seems that more than a few folks were seeing this for the first time and perhaps expecting another Minus One.
It’s been so long since I last viewed this (7 years) that I forgot how insane this cast is. Just loaded with character actors. Kentaro Shimazu has a blink and you’ll miss him scene in a hallway; he’s not even credited on IMDb. I am surprised Anno and Higuchi didn’t cast any of the classic actors like Takarada or Tsuchiya in bit parts. Especially since the purposely use the vintage tracks in the score.
Gonna try to see it again maybe in a different cinema. I love this movie so much.
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