GODZILLA MINUS ONE continues to make impressive waves at the box office!

Toho International Godzilla minus one continues to explode at the box office! It has grossed $50.9 million in its seventh week in U.S. theaters so far.

It became the highest-grossing Japanese-language film in both live-action and animation in Japan. It is now also the fifth highest-grossing non-English film at the US box office, and is expected to gross over $100 million worldwide, all told.

It’s amazing and makes me so happy! I loved this movie so much and to see it continue to succeed at the box office is such a reward.

Even though the film was a success and it is expected that Toho will follow it up with a sequel, they are in no rush to make the next film. Producer Minami Ichikawa spoke about the future of Godzilla and said: “I don’t feel the need to rush the next live-action film. Good films are all about quality. We want great ideas, an excellent script, a talented director , and the right cast to work on it carefully.

I hope when they make it, they bring the director Takashi Yamazaki he returns to direct it. Speaking about a sequel, she said: “My sincere feelings, I would love to see a continuation of those people’s story. If I could make it [A Godzilla Minus One sequel]I’d like to make a film about what happens to them afterwards.”

The director had previously explained that he had laid the foundations for a sequel and how the open ending of Godzilla Minus One could lead to the next chapter of the story: “Godzilla is both a monster and a god. Godzilla is the Tatari-gami who appears in Princess Mononoke. After all, if you really think about it, isn’t it strange that the thing awakened by America’s nuclear tests is about to attack Japan? However, if you think of it as the Tatari-gami, it makes sense. story of everyone working together to suppress an attack by the Tatari-gami.”

He goes on to say, “Godzilla was born as a result of an American nuclear test and yet he was created in Japan. Isn’t it incredibly absurd for this to happen? But I think the Japanese feel they have to accept this and consider, ‘It’s a curse. Even Princess Mononoke’s Tatari-gami comes to a village she has no connection to, ruins everything, and leaves behind a curse. That’s how I felt after making this movie. I felt that making a Godzilla movie was a curse. divine ritual The ritual [gathers] the anxieties of the world at that moment and evokes them as a cursed deity that must be appeased.”

The film is set in Japan 1945-1947. “After the war, Japan was reduced to nothing. Godzilla appears and throws the country into a negative state. Against the most desperate situation in the history of Japan, how – and with whom – will Japan resist?”