His co-directed “Shin Godzilla” (2016) featured the demolition of a Keikyu 800 series train, while his earlier work “Doomsday: The Sinking of Japan” (2006) showcased the dramatic ...

Hideaki Anno had a wild creation on his hands when he unleashed the Shin Universe. Giving classic Japanese characters like Godzilla, Kamen Rider, and Ultraman new, dark makeovers, the trilogy of ...

Pop quiz, hotshot: What happens if you take the co-director of Shin Godzilla, give him the premise of Speed and the bones of the classic 70s Japanese action thriller that inspired it, and stump up ...

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This is because, the animation studio did not just animate the manga panels into anime, but took a step further and made a reference to the Shin Godzilla movie. This homage made the scene perfect ...

The first Japanese Godzilla film released after the Fukushima disaster, Shin Godzilla (2016), reboots the franchise in a contemporary Japan with a new type of Godzilla, in an eerie echo of the ...

Shin Godzilla modernizes its allegory to nuclear power, evoking the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and the Tohoku earthquake. It satirizes bureaucratic incompetence in dealing with such disasters.

Exclusive: The annual film festival will return to New York this summer for another celebration of Japanese cinema. “We couldn’t be more amazed by this year’s festival,” Peter Tatara ...

Godzilla continues to evolve throughout the film, and Shin Godzilla makes it clear that Japan must evolve with him. The trigger-happy American military wants to nuke Tokyo to stop Godzilla ...