{"id":351906,"date":"2025-11-03T05:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T05:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/351906\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T05:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T05:18:10","slug":"godzilla-0-0-marks-next-chapter-for-tohos-monster-saga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/351906\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Godzilla -0.0’ Marks Next Chapter for Toho’s Monster Saga"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tToho<\/a> has officially revealed the title of its next \u201cGodzilla<\/a>\u201d feature: \u201cGodzilla -0.0<\/a>\u201d (Godzilla Minus Zero). The announcement was made at the annual Godzilla Fest in Tokyo and confirmed via Toho\u2019s official X account.<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tThe film will once again be written, directed and supervised for VFX by Yamazaki Takashi, with VFX work by Shirogumi and production handled by Toho Studios and Robot, the same team behind 2023\u2019s \u201cGodzilla Minus One<\/a>.\u201d Toho Co., Ltd. will produce and distribute.<\/p>\n

\n\tA new \u201cGodzilla\u201d film was teased<\/a> almost exactly a year ago. <\/p>\n

\n\tYamazaki\u2019s \u201cGodzilla Minus One\u201d became a landmark hit for the franchise. Released in Japan in November 2023, it grossed more than JPY7.65 billion ($50 million) locally, making it the top-earning live-action Japanese Godzilla film in history. In North America, it earned $56 million, making it the highest grossing Japanese-language live-action film of all time. The film later made history at the 96th Academy Awards, where it won the Oscar for best visual effects \u2014 the first \u201cGodzilla\u201d film ever nominated for an Academy Award and the first Japanese feature to win in that category.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe franchise began in 1954 with Ishir\u014d Honda\u2019s \u201cGodzilla,\u201d a grim allegory for nuclear devastation that introduced audiences to the radioactive reptile who would become Japan\u2019s most enduring pop-culture export. Since then, Toho has produced 33 live-action \u201cGodzilla\u201d films across multiple eras \u2014 the Showa, Heisei, Millennium, and now Reiwa \u2014 while American studios have released five additional titles, including Legendary\u2019s MonsterVerse.<\/p>\n

\n\tSet in Japan after World War II, \u201cGodzilla Minus One\u201d starred Kamiki Ryunosuke as Shikishima Koichi, a former kamikaze pilot who survives an almost fatal encounter with Godzilla and suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. When the massive beast reappears years later, a group of soldiers and veterans must band together to defeat the monster before it can destroy Japan. The cast also includes Hamabe Minami, Yamada Yuki, Aoki Munetaka, Yoshioka Hidetaka, Ando Sakura, and Sasaki Kuranosuke.<\/p>\n

\n\tWith \u201cGodzilla -0.0,\u201d Toho appears to be signaling a continuation of Yamazaki\u2019s \u201cMinus\u201d saga while teasing a thematic reset implied by the \u201cZero\u201d in its title. No plot or release date has yet been announced, but anticipation is running high for the next stomping move of the King of the Monsters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toho has officially revealed the title of its next \u201cGodzilla\u201d feature: \u201cGodzilla -0.0\u201d (Godzilla Minus Zero). The announcement…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":351907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[171,27445,172186,27446,53,116204,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-351906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-godzilla","10":"tag-godzilla-0-0","11":"tag-godzilla-minus-one","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-toho","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115484079926937270","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}