First Teaser For Godzilla Minus Zero Released

Godzilla Minus One came out in 2023 and was hailed as one of the greatest kaiju movies ever made. Despite this, and its easy accessibility on Netflix for the past two years, I still haven’t seen the film. The main reason beyond time: I hear it’s depressing. It’s tough to carve out space in my day for an entire movie as it is, but when it’s a SAD movie, my motivation is decreased by at least 80%.

But not everyone is me and plenty of folks had the will to make time for a depressing movie. Godzilla Minus One was a big success for Toho and thus, we have this sequel coming, Godzilla Minus Zero. Don’t count on a trilogy, however. The language from Toho and distributor GKIDS is clear…”There is no third time.”

War reduced Japan to zero, and Godzilla plunged it into minus. Two years have passed since then, and the country has faced agonizing struggles to achieve recovery and finally reclaim its daily life.

Just as humanity managed to cling to a hard-won peace, a new threat strikes, crushing hope in an instant.

There is no third time. Everything ends here.

The teaser released today isn’t very long, but shows Japanese authorities struggling over how to do away with the King of the Monsters once and for all. Nukes are immediately shot down as an idea, because this is postwar Japan and would YOU feel like it? It’s also pointed out though that Godzilla can survive such an attack — he was borne from radioactivity, after all – so why even bring it up.

According to Toho, Godzilla Minus Zero will again focus on a Japanese family just trying to survive amid the chaos — the same one, to be clear. Survivors of the first film who will return for the second include Ryunosuke Kamiki as Koichi Shikishima, Hidetaka Yoshioka as Kenji Noda, Yuki Yamada as Shiro Mizushima, Sakura Ando as Sumiko Ota, Miou Tanaka as Tatsuo Hotta, and Minami Hamabe as Noriko Shikishima. Min Tanaka joins the cast as Kanji Murakami, a biologist with “deep psychological scars from the war.”

This is it, folks — which of these cast members will be left standing once Godzilla’s reign of terror is ended? Find out November 3 in Japan and November 6 in America, when Godzilla Minus Zero opens in theaters.