Film Review - Godzilla Minus One

Takashi Yamazaki strips Godzilla back to its original Japanese postwar nuclear trauma metaphor to thrilling and poignant effect

Credit: Toho

On the evidence of this, Godzilla Minus One would have been a better film to pair with Oppenheimer in an unlikely double bill, rather than Barbie. Director Takashi Yamazaki takes the titular giant lizard back to basics, building a surprisingly poignant story about Japanese postwar trauma around the giant monster attacks. Here, Godzilla is on…