Just six months after its German cinema release, the great monster spectacle Godzilla Minus One by Takashi Yamazaki has already been released in this country on Netflix. And just two months after the Netflix launch An alternative version of the Kaiju blockbuster, which won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects, is now in the starting blocks.
Godzilla Minus One unleashes a new black-and-white film experience on Netflix
Already at 1 August 2024 the time has come. Then you can stream a second version of the celebrated Godzilla film on Netflix, which has the international title Godzilla Minus One/Minus Color In Germany, this version can be found under the pragmatic title Godzilla Minus One: Black and White.
How is Godzilla Minus One: Black and White different from the previous version? In terms of content, everything remains the same. Only the visual presentation has changed. But this is not a simple monochrome version with the color slider set to zero. Under the direction of colorist Masahiro Ishiyama, every shot in the film was completely color-corrected.
Here you can watch the trailer for Godzilla Minus One: Black and White:
Director Takashi Yamazaki explained in a statement (via Bloody Disgusting):
Instead of just making it monochrome, one image at a time was edited. I had [die Coloristen] making adjustments using different matting as if they were creating a new film. What I was aiming for was a style that looked as if it had been taken by masters of black and white photography.
International Kaiju fans in Japan and the USA were able to see the black and white version of the film in cinemas in January 2024. From 1 August 2024 Now the rest of the world can enjoy the colorless monster for the first time on Netflix.
Why you shouldn’t miss Godzilla Minus One on Netflix
Even if you’ve never seen a Godzilla moviewe can only warmly recommend Godzilla Minus One, which landed in the top 20 best films of 2023 in the Moviepilot and Filmstarts rankings. Because here, visually powerful monster attacks are on a par with emotionally complex, human characters that ground the film.
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Godzilla Minus One
The story centers on the kamikaze pilot Kōichi Shikishima (Ryunosuke Kamiki), who at the end of the Second World War after a traumatic encounter with the giant lizard Godzilla in bombed-out Tokyo and is consumed by guilt for not having fulfilled his duty. In the ruins of the city, he builds something new with the survivor Noriko Ōishi (Minami Hamabe) and an orphaned baby, which could soon be destroyed again by the fiery breath of the Kaiju creature.
As a character, we follow Shikishima through an exciting development, which is accompanied by visually impressive Godzilla set pieces and outstanding visual effects. The monstrous beast is presented in a way that is as terrifying and destructive as Hollywood’s MonsterVerse has hardly been able to achieve in recent years. You can expect no stupid monster fun here, but a A shocking mix of historical film, war drama and monster metaphors.
Have your tissues ready for the end of the emotional sci-fi trauma. You can stream Godzilla Minus One on Netflix at any time. And from August 1, 2024, also in the black and white version.