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Godzilla Minus One
(Gojira -1.0,
ゴジラ -1.0)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date 14 December 2023
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Director – Takashi Yamazaki – 2023 – Japan – Cert. 12a – 124m ***** Japan, defeated and demoralised after World War Two, must somehow defeat the seemingly unstoppable menace of Godzilla when it rises from the depths of the ocean – out on Netflix from Sunday, May 3rd 2026 World War Two, Pacific theatre. Unwilling […]

Tags 1940s, 3D animation, Academy Award, Academy Awards, Academy Awards 2023-24, Academy Awards 2024, action, aircraft, animation, battleship, belief, blowing up, CG, CG animation, cowardice, death, decommissioning, destitution, devastatation, explosion, Godzilla, Gojira, guilt, Hidetaki Yoshioka, Japan, Kaiju, Kamikaze, Kamikaze pilot, Kuranosuke Sasaki, mayhem, mines, mistaken belief, monster, mother and baby, Munetaka Aoki, nuclear, nuclear bomb, ocean, Oscar, Oscar nominations, Oscars, Oscars 2023-24, Oscars 2024, Pacific, parents and children, pilot, post-war, post-war Japan, post-war Tokyo, poverty, pull the trigger, pyrotechnics, sacrifice, Sakura Ando, Second World War, self-sacrifice, Setsuro Wakamatsu, ship, shoot-to-kill, stop thief, survival, survivor, Takashi Yamazaki, Toho, war guilt, World War 2, World War II, World War Two, WW2, Yuki Yamada

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Ghost Cat Anzu
(Bakeneko Anzu-chan,
化け猫あんずちゃん)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date 15 March 2025
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(Bakeneko Anzu-chan,
化け猫あんずちゃん)

Director – Yoko Kuno, Nobuhiro Yamashita – 2024 – Japan – Cert. N/C 15+ – 97m **** When her father leaves to sort out his loan shark debt problem, a man-sized, ghost cat is charged to look after her by her grandfather – animated fable plays UK cinemas in the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme […]

Tags #JFTFP25, 2D animation, a man in a loincloth, absent dad, absent father, animation, arm in plaster, back rub, bereavement, broken down lavatory, Buddha, car chase, cat, cave, daughter, debt problem, down-at-heel, fathers and daughters, fifth grade, fishing, ghost cat, Ghost Cat Anzu, God of Poverty, God of Poverty (vloiced: Shingo Mizusawa), grandfather, grandfathers and granddaughters, harbour, Japan, Japan Foundation, Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme, Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2025, JPF, JPF 2025, JPF Touring Programme, loan shark, loss, massage, Mirai Moriyama, monk, motorcycle, Munetaka Aoki, Noa Goto, Nobuhiro Yamashita, pay off a loan, pay off a loan shark, phone calls, portal, pressure points, schoolgirl, small town, speeding, statue, temple, The Great Screaming Hell, Tokyo, torture, traffic tunnel, undergrowth, World of the Dead, Yoko Kuno

Animation Features Live Action Movies

Godzilla Minus One
/ Minus Color
(Gojira-1.0 / C,
ゴジラ -1.0 / C)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date 31 October 2024
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Director – Takashi Yamazaki – 2023 – Japan – Cert. 12a – 124m ***** Japan, defeated and demoralised after World War Two, must somehow defeat the seemingly unstoppable menace of Godzilla when it rises from the depths of the ocean – now in black & white – out in UK cinemas from Friday, November 1st […]

Tags 1940s, 3D animation, Academy Award, Academy Awards, Academy Awards 2023-24, Academy Awards 2024, action, aircraft, animation, battleship, belief, black and white, blowing up, CG, CG animation, cowardice, death, decommissioning, destitution, devastatation, explosion, Godzilla, Gojira, guilt, Hidetaki Yoshioka, Japan, Kaiju, Kamikaze, Kamikaze pilot, Kuranosuke Sasaki, mayhem, mines, minus color, minus colour, mistaken belief, monster, mother and baby, Munetaka Aoki, nuclear, nuclear bomb, ocean, Oscars, Oscars 2023-24, Oscars 2024, Pacific, parents and children, pilot, post-war, post-war Japan, post-war Tokyo, poverty, pull the trigger, pyrotechnics, sacrifice, Sakura Ando, Second World War, self-sacrifice, Setsuro Wakamatsu, ship, shoot-to-kill, stop thief, survival, survivor, Takashi Yamazaki, Toho, war guilt, World War 2, World War II, World War Two, WW2, Yuki Yamada