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Shin Godzilla

Name: Shin Godzilla
Director: Shinji Higuchi
Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Horror
Released: 2016
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Hiroki Hasegawa, Yutaka Takenouchi, Satomi Ishihara, Kengo Kora, Satoru Matsuo

When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.

2016 · Directed by Shinji Higuchi · 120 min · Action · Science Fiction · Horror · 17 frames

Tagline

A god incarnate. A city doomed.

Crew

Screenplay: Hideaki Anno
Cinematography: Kosuke Yamada
Edited by: Hideaki Anno, Atsuki Sato
Music: Shiro Sagisu
Production design: Yuji Hayashida, Eri Sakushima
Produced by: Yoshihiro Sato, Masaya Shibusawa, Taichi Ueda, Kazutoshi Wadakura

Cast

Hiroki Hasegawa as Rando Yaguchi
Yutaka Takenouchi as Hideki Akasaka : Special Advisor to the Prime Minister
Satomi Ishihara as Kayoko Ann Patterson : US special envoy
Kengo Kora as Yusuke Shimura : Secretary of Rando
Satoru Matsuo as Syuichi Izumi : Policy Research Council Vice Chairman
Mikako Ichikawa as Hiromi Ogashira : Ministry of the Environment Nature
Issey Takahashi as Ryu Yasuda : Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Research / Promotion Bureau Director
Kanji Tsuda as Fumiya Mori : Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare / Research and Development Division Director
Shinya Tsukamoto as Kunio Hazama : Jouhoku University Associate professor
Toru Nomaguchi as Tachikawa : Agency for Natural Resources and Energy / Electricity and Gas Industry Department Director

Production

Country: Japan
Language: Italian, German, English, Japanese
Studios: Toho Pictures, Cine Bazar
Budget: $15,000,000
Box office: $78,053,145
Themes: japan, monster, bureaucracy, politics, giant monster, nuclear radiation, political incompetence, tokyo, japan, destruction, reboot

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