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Godzilla Minus One director Takashi Yamazaki, left, actor Ryunosuke Kamiki poses for a photograph on the red carpet, before the opening rite of the 36th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF), in Tokyo, Japan, Monday, Oct. 23.
TOKYO >> Godzilla, the nightmarish monster that spits radiation and is born from nuclear weapons, has given that impression in movies, adding several Hollywood versions.
Takashi Yamazaki, the director of the new Godzilla movie, which will be released in the U. S. In the U. S. later this year, he decided to bring out what he sees as the necessarily Japanese spirituality that characterizes the 1954 original.
In this classic, directed by Ishiro Honda, a man sweated in a rubber suit and trampled miniature cityscapes to tell the story of a prehistoric creature mistakenly animated by nuclear radiation in the Pacific. The monster in “Godzilla Minus One” is made entirely of infographics.
“I love the original Godzilla and felt like it had to be true to that spirit, addressing the issues of war and nuclear weapons,” said Yamazaki, who also wrote the script and oversaw the automatic special effects.
“There is a concept in Japan called ‘tatarigami’. There are gods and bad gods. Godzilla is part monster, but also part god.
The world has recently been plunged into an era of uncertainty, with the war in Ukraine and the coronavirus pandemic. It was a vibe that matched his “very Japanese” supernatural Godzilla, Yamazaki said at the Tokyo International Film Festival, where “Godzilla Minus One” was unveiled. It’s the final film. It opens in Japanese theaters on Friday.
“You have to calm him down,” he told The Associated Press of Godzilla, as if only a prayer could calm or prevent the monster from trying to kill him.
Set just after Japan’s World War II, Yamazaki’s performance predates the original and depicts a country so war-torn that it is left with nothing, let alone weapons to fight Godzilla.
And so with his arrival everything is back in negative territory, or negative.
Ryunosuke Kamiki plays the hero, a soldier who survives the war and loses his family, facing off against Godzilla.
The finely detailed depiction of the monster are paintings by Tokyo-based virtual special effects team Shirogumi, which includes Yamazaki. A terrifyingly realistic-looking Godzilla crashes into the fleeing crowds, his giant tail sweeping through buildings in an instant, his bumpy skin glistening as if irradiated. embers, its growl goes straight to your face.
Some Godzilla fans feel that Hollywood has mischaracterized “Gojira,” as it’s known in Japan, as an inevitably fatalistic herbal disaster, when the nuclear angle is essential.
Yamazaki, a friendly, giggly guy, under pressure that he loves the special effects of Hollywood movies, adds that he’s a big fan of Gareth Edwards’ 2014 film Godzilla.
This helped motivate the new Japanese Godzilla, 2016’s “Shin Godzilla,” directed by Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi. Toho Studios hadn’t made a Godzilla movie since 2004.
Yamazaki, who worked with the famous Juzo Itami, won Japan’s equivalent of an Oscar for “Always – Sunset on Third Street,” a poignant family drama set in the 1950s, and “The Eternal Zero,” about Japanese fighter pilots.
He’s in a position to make another Godzilla movie, but what he needs to do is a “Star Wars” movie.
What led him to become interested in cinema as a child was Steven Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind. “He was so enthralled by the film that he couldn’t help but talk about it, he recalls, following his mother for hours, even when she had cooked dinner.
“Star Wars,” the franchise created by George Lucas and a sci-fi favorite, evokes so many Asian themes that make him the best director for a sequel, Yamazaki said.
“I’m confident that I can create a very special ‘Star Wars,'” he said.
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