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Godzilla Minus One, the latest edition in Toho’s monster franchise and the closing film at this year’s Tokyo Film Festival, has locked a deal for distribution in the UK and Ireland.

The Glasgow-based distribution outfit Anime Limited will release the pic in UK and Irish cinemas on December 15. The wide rollout will also include IMAX and 4Dx screens.

Godzilla Minus One is written and directed by Lupin III filmmaker Takashi Yamazaki. The pic is set for a local release on Nov 3 from Toho and comes 70 years after the first film. Synopsis reads: After the war, Japan has been reduced to zero. Godzilla appears and plunges the country into a negative state. Against the most desperate situation in the history of Japan, how — and with whom —will Japan stand up to it?

Alongside writing and directing duties on Godzilla Minus One, Yamazaki also supervised the visual effects. The film stars Ryunosuke Kamiki,...

Godzilla Minus One, the latest installment in Toho’s long-running mega-monster franchise and the Tokyo International Film Festival’s closing title, has locked down distribution in the U.K. and Ireland. Glasgow-based distributor Anime Ltd. has picked up the action movie for a Dec. 15 release.

Anime Ltd. plans to open the film at 200 to 250 locations, which makes it the company’s biggest live-action release to date. This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Godzilla franchise and Godzilla Minus One is the first fully Japanese-made film in the series since 2016.

Godzilla Minus One is written and directed by noted CG animator and VFX artist Takashi Yamazaki (Lupin III: The First, The Great War of Archimedes). The film stars Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Yuki Yamada, Munetaka Aoki, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Sakura Ando, and Kuranosuke Sasaki. The film is actually Yamazaki’s third on-screen depiction of Godzilla, following his previous use of the...

The latest instalment in the classic monster franchise will open on December 15.

Glasgow-based distributor Anime Ltd has secured UK-Ireland distribution rights to Godzilla Minus One, the latest in Toho Studios’ iconic monster franchise.

Anime Ltd will open the film at 200-250 sites on December 15, including Imax and 4Dx theatres. It marks the biggest ever theatrical live-action release for the distributor, which is known for releasing some of Japan’s biggest animated box office hits in the UK and Ireland such as One Piece Film: Red and more recently The First Slam Dunk.

Godzilla Minus One received its world premiere in...

Toho has released a new poster for its upcoming kaiju film ‘Godzilla Minus One’, which will hit theaters in the U.S. on December 1, 2023. The poster features a striking image of Godzilla’s silhouette looming over a devastated postwar Japan, with the tagline “The terror begins…”.

‘Godzilla Minus One’ is written and directed by Takashi Yamazaki, who is known for his work on ‘The Great War of Archimedes’ and ‘Always: Sunset on Third Street 2’. The film is the 37th installment in the Godzilla franchise, Toho’s 33rd Godzilla film, and the fifth film in the franchise’s Reiwa era1

Godzilla Minus One Trailer

The film stars Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Yuki Yamada, Munetaka Aoki, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Sakura Ando, and Kuranosuke Sasaki. The plot follows the emergence of Godzilla in postwar Japan, which has been reduced to zero economically. The people must face the new threat while struggling to survive...

The city-shattering trailer for Godzilla Minus One has arrived. The film will be released at movie theaters in North America on Friday, December 1, 2023.

Written and directed by Takashi Yamazaki and featuring music by Naoki Sato, “Godzilla Minus One will see postwar Japan face new fear in the form of Godzilla. Will the devastated people be able to survive… let alone fight back?”

Godzilla first premiered in Nagoya on October 27, 1954 and received a wide release in Japan on November 3.

The first new Toho Godzilla film since 2016’s Shin Godzilla, Godzilla Minus One stars Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Yuki Yamada, Munetaka Aoki, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Sakura Ando, and Kuranosuke Sasaki.

The all-new Godzilla feature debuts November 3, 2023 in Japan. Godzilla has starred in a total of thirty-eight films; thirty-three Japanese films produced and distributed by Toho Co., Ltd. and five American films: one produced by TriStar Pictures and four produced by Legendary Pictures.

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