This movie has something for practically everyone: monsters, destruction, human drama, action, friendship and hope. Now you can watch it in a very special version
The sea is churning. It’s boiling beneath her. Water drips in torrents from the jagged ridges that break the surface. A toothy mouth pushes its way out of the sea. Then the monster finds solid ground at its feet and rears up to its full height. The unsuspecting people on the island are left breathless.
Godzilla has been wreaking havoc on the big screen in various versions for 70 years. But while the monster verse turned the atomic giant lizard into a kind of heroic figure, in 2023 a Japanese team returned to Godzilla’s terrifying catastrophic roots.
Godzilla Minus One thrilled old and new fans of the monster icon, delivering moving drama and Oscar-winning destruction. On Netflix you can now experience this fantastic Godzilla representative in the normal and even the impressive black and white version
On Netflix: Godzilla Minus One impresses with human destinies and a monstrous Godzilla
Japan, shortly after the Second World War. For the majority of the population, a world lies in ruins. Even Kōichi Shikishima (Ryunosuke Kamiki) hardly knows what to do with himself after all the horrors he had to experience as a fighter pilot. What’s more, he carries two secrets around with him that torment him day and night.
Firstly, he has returned home in disgrace. He was a kamikaze pilot, but deserted to save his life. And secondly, he had to witness something incredible at the last base he flew to: A gigantic lizard brought death to all his comrades like a primeval force of nature. And he? He watched without doing anything. Paralyzed with fear
The events that soon follow in Tokyo hit him all the harder: the giant lizard, known as Godzilla according to old legends, appears on the coast. And begins to reduce entire areas of Japan and Tokyo to rubble. The inhabitants of Tokyo must join forces to save their homeland and countless lives from destruction.
Godzilla Minus One is a masterpiece as it is – and even ten times better in black and white
Godzilla Minus One returns to the roots of the Japanese monster in an impressive way. The focus is on the fate of people after the Second World War and the pure, otherworldly horror they experience when the force of nature Godzilla arrives. War trauma mingles with fear of the future and the horror of nuclear annihilation
Forgotten is the fun lizard from the Monsterverse that happily fights its way through the Hollow Earth with King Kong. Instead, every appearance of this creature is pure catastrophic horror, Godzilla a real, hostile monster. Rarely has the destruction of Japan been so terrifying and the fight for survival such an ordeal.
The black-and-white images in the special version of Godzilla Minus One act like a secret ingredient that intensifies everything. They are a hyperfocus that makes every emotion, every bit of destruction, every earth-shattering step Godzilla takes seem all the more violent.
