Shin Godzilla
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| German title | Shin Godzilla |
| Original title | シ ン ・ ゴ ジ ラ |
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| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 118 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director |
Hideaki Anno (main director), Shinji Higuchi |
| script | Hideaki Anno |
| production | Hideaki Anno, Minami Ichikawa, Taichi Ueda, Yoshihiro Sato, Masaya Shibusawa, Kazutoshi Wadakura |
| music | Shirō Sagisu |
| camera | Kosuke Yamada |
| cut | Atsuki Satō, Hideaki Anno |
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Shin Godzilla ( Japanese シン·ゴジラ Shin Gojira ) is a Kaiju - action movie of directors Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi from the year 2016. The film focuses on 29 of the original series of Toho and 31 part including the US Interpretations. Shin Godzilla is the most successful Japanese film in the series. It is the first Japanese Godzilla film since 2004.
action
In the Tokyo Bay a driverless boat drifts. The coast guard goes on board and takes the place of the crew several documents from a journalist named Goro Maki. Shortly thereafter, there is an eruption and the water in the bay begins to boil. The Tōkyō-wan-Aqua-Line under the bay is flooded by a strange and radioactive red substance. The tunnel is then evacuated. Passers-by record the situation with their smartphones and the press also broadcasts the phenomenon on television. The recordings also reach the government seat under Prime Minister Seiji Okochi, who convenes an emergency meeting. Most government members consider the phenomenon to be a volcanic eruption, only the young, ambitious cabinet secretary Rando Yaguchi suspects more. B. a giant monster. The theory is dismissed as nonsense by the others.
But Yaguchi was proved right when the pictures show the tail of a giant monster. The residents panic, but Okochi assures the people that the monster cannot go ashore because of its weight. When the monster moved towards the coast, his statement was confirmed, but it used the Nomi River in the Ōta district and caused great damage there. The monster goes ashore and there develops into a land animal. The area is evacuated and the air force wants to launch a helicopter attack. But because there are still civilians in the attack area, Okochi breaks off the attack. The monster then flees back into the sea because its body temperature is rising steadily.
When looking at the damage, it becomes clear that it is imperative that the government hunt down the monster. Yaguchi is then assigned to lead a task force to study the monster. She examines the liquid and notices the strong ionizing radiation it emits. The task force therefore suspects that the monster is being propelled by some form of nuclear fission . The task force is supported by the Japanese native Kayoko Ann Patterson, who serves as the special envoy for the President of the United States . This has information about research by Goro Maki, who once examined genetic mutations that were caused by ionizing radiation and therefore put forward the theory that a new form of creature was created as a result. But neither in Japan nor in the United States believed him and so he was ostracized in the faculties. His research results were then kept secret by the Americans. Presumably that was why he left the documents on the driverless boat in Tokyo Bay.
Shortly afterwards, the monster, which Makis notes call Godzilla, is spotted again on the Japanese coast near Kamakura . Godzilla grew incredibly fast and was twice the size of its first attack. He goes ashore in Kamakura and moves towards downtown Tokyo. The Japanese army mobilizes all units, but is unable to stop Godzilla's advance. Neither the use of tanks, helicopters, or special bombs have any effect on Godzilla. The US Army supports them and plans a massive air strike on the dinosaur, which results in a complete evacuation of the population and government. Stealth bomber Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit throw bunker-busting bombs on Godzilla that can wound him. But Godzilla uses a beam of heat that turns the environment around him into a sea of flames. But he does not manage to use the heat ray on the bombs and bombers through the snout, which is why he fires them through his back plates and thus destroys the attackers. With another heat beam he destroys other parts of Tokyo and hits the helicopter in which Okochi was, who is killed in the explosion. As a result, Godzilla staggers and falls into a dormant state, rendering him immobile.
Yaguchi's task force then determines that the back plates and red substance act as cooling for Godzilla. Because of this, a plan is worked out, according to which Godzilla could be frozen with a cooling liquid and thus stop him. In addition, they find out that a Godzilla has cells that are constantly developing and can reproduce asexually. Given the danger this poses to mankind, the United Nations approves a thermonuclear nuclear attack on Godzilla if the Japanese fail to destroy Godzilla within three days. As a result, all prefectures in the Tokyo area are evacuated. Patterson, who doesn’t want her ancestral land to fall victim to another nuclear attack, decides to use their political ties to give Yaguchi and his task force enough time to plan Godzilla’s destruction. Meanwhile, Goro Maki succeeds in decrypting Goro Maki's documents and thus has the key to her plan to freeze Godzilla. The Japanese interim government, which Patterson did not trust, supports the task force's plan. The Americans also decide to help.
Only a few hours before the end of the atomic ultimatum, the task force implements its plan. This looks like you exhaust Godzilla by forcing him to use the heat ray. To achieve this, unmanned and explosive trains are rammed into Godzilla to force him out of hibernation. The American drones are then said to drop bombs to provoke the heat beam. When Godzilla is so exhausted, explosives are detonated in the surrounding skyscrapers, which fall on him and he is brought to the ground. On the floor, Godzilla is orally fed the cooling liquid that industrial companies are urgently producing. However, this requires several attempts, as Godzilla usually wakes up too quickly, gets up and destroys the crane systems that feed the liquid. After three waves, Godzilla actually freezes and lapses into a freeze. Tokyo is thus spared the fate of nuclear destruction.
After defeating Godzilla, the rebuilding of Tokyo begins. The radioactive liquid that he always emitted has a very short half-life , so there is no health risk from gamma radiation. The new government of Japan declares itself ready to accept the prevented thermonuclear nuclear attack, should Godzilla awaken again. Despite everything, Yaguchi and Patterson are pleased that they were able to prevent the worst. The last shot of the film shows Godzilla's tail, from which humanoid, Godzilla-like creatures are growing.
Reviews
Jörg Buttgereit wrote in the ray film magazine: "The uncontrollable monster is clearly a symbol of the tsunami and reactor disaster in Fukushima. Soulless and unstoppable like the tsunami of 2011, the Kaiju pours its radioactive glowing body onto the mainland as far as Tokyo. Gojira is the salt The manifested admission of guilt by an otherwise proud nation. (...) The film is a self-critical description of the state of helplessness in the face of the still threatening situation in Fukushima, which is unusually for Japanese standards can come."
On the Rotten Tomatoes website , 74 percent of the audience liked the film. The critics rated him 86 percent positive.
publication
Shin Godzilla was released in theaters in Japan on July 29, 2016. It started at first place in the cinema charts and has grossed around 78 million US dollars worldwide, making it the financially most successful Godzilla part. On October 11, 2016, the film was released as Godzilla Resurgence as part of a limited theatrical release in the United States. A limited theatrical release ran in Germany on May 4, 2017.
Web links
- Official page for the film
- Shin Godzilla in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Shin Godzilla with rotten tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Shin Godzilla . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Hideaki Anno Unlikely to Return for Shin Godzilla 2. In: godzilla-movies.com. September 16, 2016, accessed April 6, 2017 .
- ↑ Shin Godzilla / Shin Gojira. In: ray film magazine. May 3, 2017, accessed on August 3, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Godzilla Resurgence (Shin Godzilla) (2016). Retrieved July 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Godzilla Resurgence (Shin Godzilla) (2016). Accessed August 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Shin Godzilla (2016) - Box Office Mojo. Retrieved July 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Shin Godzilla. In: boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved April 6, 2017 .