“Godzilla Minus One/Minus Color” Trailer Reveals Juggernaut Kaiju Movie in Black & White

August 1, 2024

Godzilla Minus One/Minus Color is now streaming on Netflix.

A trailer for one of the highest-ratest Godzilla movies in history (hailed as one of the best ever by many critics) reveals a meticulously decolorized version of writer/director Takashi Yamazaki’s masterpiece. The colorized version of Godzilla Minus One is the first domestic Japanese Godzilla film in seven years and takes us back to post-war Japan as the iconic kaiju surfaces from the ocean depths to unleash holy hell on a populace still reckoning with the ravages of World War II, a nation that was “baptized in the horrific power of the atom bomb” as the film’s press materials state.

When Godzilla Minus One arrived on U.S. shores, the reviews glowed as brightly as the titan’s atomic breath. “The result is nothing short of magical: a feast for the eyes, an entertaining epic in every sense of the word,” writes the Washington Post‘s Lucas Trevor. “Godzilla Minus One isn’t just a good Godzilla movie. It’s an excellent Godzilla movie – arguably among the best ever to grace the screen,” says ReelViews James Berardinelli.

The black-and-white version gives us a gorgeous duotone version of Yamazaki’s film, which is a vastly different beast from the American incarnations we’ve seen in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) and Godzilla (2014). Minus One takes us back to Godzilla’s roots as a metaphor for Japan’s postwar agony and grief while balancing the beast’s lust for carnage and destruction with a human-level story focusing on the people’s lives beneath Godzilla’s feet.

Godzilla Minus One stars Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Yuki Yamada, Munetaka Aoki, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Sakura Ando, and Kuranosuke Sasaki.

Check out the trailer below for Godzilla Minus One/Minus Color.