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Godzilla Minus Zero

There is no third time. Everything ends here.

15
3 November 2026
2h 15m
Science Fiction
Horror
Action

Film 2 of 2 · Godzilla Minus

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8.1 TMDB worldwide · 84 ratings

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.

About the film

Godzilla Minus Zero (Japanese: ゴジラ-0.0（マイナスゼロ）, Hepburn: Gojira Mainasu Zero) is a 2026 Japanese epic kaiju film written, directed, and with visual effects by Takashi Yamazaki. A sequel to Godzilla Minus One (2023), it is the 39th film in the Godzilla franchise, the 34th film thereof produced by Toho, and the sixth installment in the Reiwa era. The film stars Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Yuki Yamada, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Sakura Ando, and Miou Tanaka reprising their roles from Minus One, with Min Tanaka, Masami Nagasawa, and Jun Kunimura also starring as new characters. In the film, set in 1949, postwar Japan struggles to rebuild when it faces a new threat: King Ghidorah. Godzilla reappears and is drawn into conflict with the three-headed monster, guided through human intervention.

Following the international success of Godzilla Minus One, Toho announced in November 2024 that another Yamazaki-helmed Godzilla film had been greenlit. By February 2025, Yamazaki had begun screenwriting and storyboarding the follow-up. In April 2025, Toho International's president, Kōji Ueda, clarified that the new film would be a sequel, planned for a 2026 release. Principal photography commenced in August 2025 and wrapped by December. It became the first Japanese production filmed for IMAX. The film's title was announced in November 2025. Shirogumi handled the visual effects.

Godzilla Minus Zero premiered at the 2026 New York Film Festival on September 26, and was released theatrically in Japan by Toho on November 3. Critics praised its visual effects as superior to those of its predecessor, but were divided on whether the overall film was superior. The film has grossed over $23.2 million worldwide and set records for the highest opening day of any live-action film in Japanese history and the largest previews for a GKIDS release in the United States and Canada.

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