How do Americans feel about 'Godzilla Minus One'?

Nov 16, 2026 | News On Japan

The latest Godzilla film, "Godzilla-0.0," has surpassed 3 billion yen in box office revenue in Japan and is a huge hit in North America.

It opened in 3,254 theaters in North America, the largest number of theaters for a Japanese film in history, and its opening weekend gross was approximately 5 billion yen. It achieved the remarkable feat of becoming the first Japanese live-action film to reach number one in the US weekend box office rankings.

This film, directed by Takashi Yamazaki, who won the first Academy Award for Visual Effects for a Japanese film with the previous film, "Godzilla-1.0," and produced by the VFX studio "Shirogumi," delves deeply into the horrific conditions of Japan during and after the war, the pain endured by the Japanese people, and the relationship with the US military during the occupation of Japan. It received an "R" rating, the first for the American Godzilla series.

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