Godzilla Minus One (2023)
ゴジラ-1.0
Science Fiction, Horror, Action • 2h 4m
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
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About the film
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.
- Alternative Titles
- Godzilla Minus One/Minus Color, Godzilla Minus One Minus Color
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Director: Jūzō Itami
Director: Makoto Shinkai
Caveat: Songs are only in Japanese, even with the English dub selected.
JP Toho 4K Blu-ray for the alternate Japanese audio with English songs, and US OOP Funimation Blu-ray for the English dub with English songs
(US GKIDS 4K Blu-ray has a higher bitrate than the Japan Toho 4K Blu-ray, but improvements are minimal, if visible.)
Director: Makoto Shinkai
Hong Kong Neofilms 4K Blu-ray
US/UK Crunchyroll 4K Blu-ray
Hong Kong Neofilms 4K Blu-ray
Hong Kong Neofilms 4K Blu-ray/Japan Toho 4K Blu-ray
Hong Kong Neofilms 4K Blu-ray has better bitrate and detail than Japan Toho 4K Blu-ray, both releases have English subtitles.
The original theatrical Atmos mix has not been given a home release.
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
Japan Toho 4K Blu-ray for uncensored Japanese audio and original 6.1 mix
Japan Toho 4K Blu-ray is an upscale of the original 2K DI but has no English subtitles, all past releases are flawed scans from filmout sources.
Directors: Shinji Higuchi & Hideaki Anno
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
US Toho/GKIDS 4K Blu-ray > France 4K Blu-ray > Japan Toho 4K Blu-ray; caps
US disc includes original Japanese intertitles, as well as stylized English translations for all of them, both burned-in.
US Toho/GKIDS 4K Blu-ray has no limiting, unlike other releases.
Director: Genki Kawamura
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
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
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
France Carlotta > Criterion 4K Blu-ray see caps: https://slow.pics/c/s7AfL3XW
Grain is sharper/clearer on the new Carlotta/Criterion 4K; BFI's grain resolves slightly worse and more so in motion, being a standard Blu-ray; The Toho 4K's grain is softer, probably DNR'd.
BFI Player used to have the same mastering available to stream in 2019.
Director: Shinobu Yaguchi
More Science Fiction on Blu-ray
Director: George Lucas
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
OG: "4K77" or "D+77" on high seas.
Special Edition: "4K97_IV" or "D+97_IV" on high seas.
2027 Original Trilogy restoration/50th anniversary rerelease clips leaked plus release confirmed
OG: LaserDisc audio is the best option for the Dolby Stereo mixes (and usually included in fan restorations). There are 16mm/TV rips of the mono mixes.
Special Edition: Cinema DTS or 1997 LaserDisc for the Special Edition.
Director: Steven Spielberg
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
Universal 4K
Dolby Vision grading looks identical to a cinema DCP, which is the highest compliment that could be given. Encode is perfectly solid in motion.
Director: Satoshi Kon
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Director: Michael Anderson
Arrow 4K Blu-ray scheduled for Dec 2026 release
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Bandai JP 4K Blu-ray
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
All 4K releases are sourced from the same mediocre transfer provided by Bandai, with various amounts of tweaks. Japanese disc presents it with the least tinkering.
The best attempt at improving it comes from the German/French releases from KSM/All the Anime, both of which use the same master with HDR regrading (original grade is SDR in HDR container), tasteful regraining and sharpening, in an attempt to breathe some life into the middling transfer, making for an arguably more pleasing viewing experience.
All earlier releases are from an even worse transfer, with significant black crush, with the exception of a Japanese TV airing, which doesn't suffer from that issue, but instead is heavily sharpened and suffers from poor encoding.
Comparisons: JPN UHD, USA UHD, FRA/GER UHD, ITA UHD (tonemapped), JPN UHD, USA UHD, FRA/GER UHD, ITA UHD, ESP UHD (PQ), All 1080p BDs, HDTV, HDTV filtered
Original matrixed stereo mix: Bandai JP 4K Blu-ray
Most discs include this track with comparable fidelity (which is excellent).
Dolby Atmos remix: Lionsgate US 4K / All the Anime FR 4K
6.1 remix (from Ghost in the Shell 2.0): KSM DE 4K / All the Anime FR 4K
All tracks on the Lionsgate US 4K replace the original ending song with the one heard on the English dub. As the Atmos track on the FR 4K is just a port, it also has this song replaced.
Japanese 4K includes English dub and subtitles.
French/German 4Ks are not English friendly, with no dub or subtitles.
French disc includes the Atmos track, but the German disc does not.
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Included in the Complete Kubrick box set with FiM encode of the same master from the WB release without the filtering Comparison between the Criterion and WB.
5.1: WB 4K Blu-ray, a remix but has higher fidelity
Mono: Criterion 4K Blu-ray (restored for the box set)
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Included in the Complete Kubrick box set with FiM encode of the same master from the WB release without the filtering; WB 4K early pressing has errors of a shot, later pressings fixed. Comparison between Criterion and WB.
6-Track 70mm mix: Criterion 4K Blu-ray (restored for the box set), 1997 MGM LaserDisc, 1998 MGM DVD
35mm Mono Mix: Criterion 4K Blu-ray
Matrixed Stereo Remix: MGM Japan LaserDisc (1985) [G158F5509]
5.1 Remix: Criterion 4K Blu-ray
Director: Steve De Jarnatt
2024 Kino Lorber Blu-ray
UK Transmission 4K Blu-ray in January 2027
Either the 2015 Kino Lorber Blu-ray or the Arrow Blu-ray
The 2024 Kino Lorber Blu-ray is botched.
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