Godzilla Minus One (2023)
ゴジラ-1.0
Science Fiction, Horror, Action • 2h 4m
Overview
In postwar Japan, Godzilla brings new devastation to an already scorched landscape. With no military intervention or government help in sight, the survivors must join together in the face of despair and fight back against an unrelenting horror.
Director: Takashi Yamazaki
Cast: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Yuki Yamada, Munetaka Aoki, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Sakura Ando, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Saki Nakatani, Miou Tanaka, Yuya Endo, Kisuke Iida, Kenji Anan, Kenji Mizuhashi, Kunihiro Suda, Shota Taniguchi, Akio Nakadai, Ippei Sasaki, Ozuno Nakamura, Masaichi Wanibuchi, Sho Nishigaki, Fuma Sasaki, Tsutomu Osabe, Yuji Komatsu, Yosuke Minokawa, Sentarou Kusakabe, Kota Kawabata, Genki Furugen, Yuto Yoshikawa, Yuya Oshima, Hirotaka Akatsuma, Ryo Hamanaka, Kiyomi Aratani, Yukio Tsukamoto, Shoji Omiya, Michael Arias, Masataka Matsubara, Kentaro Furuyama, Takumi Matsui, Tetsu Hirahara, Hiroyuki Toritani, Seitaro Chiba, Tatsuki Oguma, Hidemasa Mase, Jun Ohnishi, Yuho Mochinaga, Daiki Ichikawa, Yasunori Ota, Ryota Tsuchihashi, Atsushi Saitou, Masayuki Yamada, Goro Sato, Keisuke Fujita, Yuta Wakabayashi, Koya Fukuda, Shunpeter Sugisaki, Yuki Takao, Yusuke Karita, Makoto Matsumoto, Shinji Nagashima, Akihiro Yamamoto, Hidehiko Yamada, Atomu Ito, Django Yamada, Gomez Hori, Shohei Abe, Gen Shimada, Masatoshi Kihara, Masaru Yahagi, Touta Tawaragi, Etsuji Harada, Senji Nakagi, Tetsunori Akira, Mao Ohno, Ami Kitamikado, Yoka, Mami Tokuda, Yukihide Ueda, Sho Tsuruta, Makoto Araki, Yamato Aizawa, Mizuki Hasegawa, Kisuke Inoue, Miki Mirai, Daichi Abe, Rikako Miura, Gohshuu, Yuko Onose, Seiji Okuda, Eisuke Sasai, Shinsuke Kasai, Saori, Takato Yonemoto, Yoshiyo Naka, Ikumu Shigeta, Keita Chiba, Masato Nakano, Kiyoshi Uchida, Aya Sakura, Ayane Kamoi, Risa Miyake, Mami Aoki
Director: Akira Kurosawa
BFI 4K Blu-ray has excellent master and grade, no DNR and tasteful HDR
Restored original mono mix: Toho Japan 4K Blu-ray
Unrestored original mono: 2014 BFI Blu-ray
BFI 4K Blu-ray has OG Perspecta (in 5.1 container) and a stereo downmix of it; no original mono.
The unrestored track on BFI's earlier release appears to be an almost entirely unmanipulated transfer of the original mix. It suffers from a distracting low-frequency hum. The 4K restoration comes with a restored track, which appears to be the same transfer, but which appears to be cleaned up with a moderate amount of noise reduction and some EQ, nicely opening up the high-end, and which is likely to be preferable to most listeners. All earlier releases sound poor.
Perspecta isn't a discrete surround format, instead only relying on manipulating volume and panning of the mono track across L/C/R channels, based on embedded control tones. As such, even the Perspecta track is technically just the mono mix, though the omission of the proper mono on BFI's 4K is still unfortunate.
Director: Akira Kurosawa
BFI 4K Blu-ray has excellent master and grade, no DNR and tasteful HDR
Restored original mono mix: Toho Japan 4K Blu-ray
Unrestored original mono: 2014 BFI Blu-ray
BFI 4K Blu-ray has OG Perspecta (in 5.1 container) and a stereo downmix of it; no original mono.
The unrestored track on BFI's earlier release appears to be an almost entirely unmanipulated transfer of the original mix. It suffers from a distracting low-frequency hum. The 4K restoration comes with a restored track, which appears to be the same transfer, but which appears to be cleaned up with a moderate amount of noise reduction and some EQ, nicely opening up the high-end, and which is likely to be preferable to most listeners. All earlier releases sound poor.
Perspecta isn't a discrete surround format, instead only relying on manipulating volume and panning of the mono track across L/C/R channels, based on embedded control tones. As such, even the Perspecta track is technically just the mono mix, though the omission of the proper mono on BFI's 4K is still unfortunate.
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Criterion NTSC DVD overall. The 4K restoration's track is denoised and sounds muffled, but has a few of moments where it edges out in detail
Audio analysis between the Criterion 4K Blu-ray, BFI Blu-ray and Toho 4K Blu-ray
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Criterion NTSC DVD overall. The 4K restoration's track is denoised and sounds muffled, but has a few of moments where it edges out in detail
Audio analysis between the Criterion 4K Blu-ray, BFI Blu-ray and Toho 4K Blu-ray
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Criterion 4K Blu-ray: intact grain compared to Toho/BFI UHDs' DNR'd master
Criterion 4K Blu-ray is good, derived from the 1995 Criterion LaserDisc (which would be minimally better due to its lack of filtering) see blah-ray
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Criterion 4K Blu-ray: intact grain compared to Toho/BFI UHDs' DNR'd master
Criterion 4K Blu-ray is good, derived from the 1995 Criterion LaserDisc (which would be minimally better due to its lack of filtering) see blah-ray
Director: Shinobu Yaguchi
Director: Shinobu Yaguchi
Director: Ishirō Honda
Director: Ishirō Honda
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Directors: Shinji Higuchi & Hideaki Anno
US Toho 4K Blu-ray > France 4K Blu-ray > Japan Toho 4K Blu-ray caps
BR members also compared subtitles and placement and the US contains the original burnt-in subs compared to the France and UK 4Ks.
Toho/GKIDS US 4K Blu-ray has a new English dub, different from the old Funi US Blu-ray
Directors: Shinji Higuchi & Hideaki Anno
US Toho 4K Blu-ray > France 4K Blu-ray > Japan Toho 4K Blu-ray caps
BR members also compared subtitles and placement and the US contains the original burnt-in subs compared to the France and UK 4Ks.
Toho/GKIDS US 4K Blu-ray has a new English dub, different from the old Funi US Blu-ray
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Director: Akira Kurosawa
More Science Fiction on Blu-ray
Director: James Cameron
Disney 4K Blu-ray's artificial smoothening of facial textures making actors look unnatural, grain reduction and other changes to make the film look less like a product of its time
Old WEB-DL or HDTV rip for non AI version
Director: James Cameron
Disney 4K Blu-ray's artificial smoothening of facial textures making actors look unnatural, grain reduction and other changes to make the film look less like a product of its time
Old WEB-DL or HDTV rip for non AI version
Director: Peter Medak
Imprint 4K Blu-ray scheduled for August 2026 release
Director: Peter Medak
Imprint 4K Blu-ray scheduled for August 2026 release
Director: Roger Donaldson
88 Films & Scream Factory 4K Blu-ray
Imprint 4K Blu-ray scheduled for August 2026 release
88 Films tied with Scream Factory 4K Blu-ray (88 Films is FiM encoded)
88 Films and Scream Factory have exclusive extras
Director: Roger Donaldson
88 Films & Scream Factory 4K Blu-ray
Imprint 4K Blu-ray scheduled for August 2026 release
88 Films tied with Scream Factory 4K Blu-ray (88 Films is FiM encoded)
88 Films and Scream Factory have exclusive extras
Director: Gordon Douglas
Director: Gordon Douglas
Arrow 4K Blu-ray see caps
Info: Arrow 4K Blu-ray is scanned from interpositive film, thus having a softer than the first title.
Original: Arrow 4K Blu-ray vs New Line LaserDisc
Arrow 4K Blu-ray see caps
Info: Arrow 4K Blu-ray is scanned from interpositive film, thus having a softer than the first title.
Original: Arrow 4K Blu-ray vs New Line LaserDisc
Arrow 4K Blu-ray see caps
Dolby Stereo: Arrow 4K Blu-ray or New Line LaserDisc for line absent on VHS, DVD, and Blu-ray releases
Info: Arrow 4K Blu-ray is scanned from interpositive film, thus having a softer than the first title.
Arrow 4K Blu-ray see caps
Dolby Stereo: Arrow 4K Blu-ray or New Line LaserDisc for line absent on VHS, DVD, and Blu-ray releases
Info: Arrow 4K Blu-ray is scanned from interpositive film, thus having a softer than the first title.
Director: John Woo
Director: John Woo
Director: John Badham
Director: John Badham
Director: John Carpenter
Fabulous Films 4K Blu-ray, some caps
Director: John Carpenter
Fabulous Films 4K Blu-ray, some caps
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