Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle entered its third month in Japanese theaters today and with that came a massive win for Karasuno and every team on the roster. Following the last weekend in March, first anime film in the Haikyu!! Final duology reached 72nd place on the Japanese all-time box office charts. As of March 31, 2024, Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle has made 8.75 billion yen (US$58.35 million) on the back of over 6.1 million tickets sold for the volleyball flick. On the all-time Japanese box office charts, Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle is just shy of 2013’s The Eternal Zero ’s 8.76 billion yen and above 1999’s The Matrix ’s straight 8 billion yen takings. With Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle continuing to stay in the top three weekend box office attendance over the place few weeks, the sky continues to be the limit for the first part of the culmination of the mega sports anime franchise. Related: Haikyuu!
- 4/1/2024
- by Daryl Harding
- Crunchyroll
Christopher Nolan is heaping on the praise for Oscar-winning monster movie “Godzilla Minus One.”
The “Oppenheimer” writer/director, whose feature won Best Picture at the 2024 Academy Awards, interviewed “Godzilla Minus One” director Takashi Yamazaki ahead of the release of “Oppenheimer” in Japan.
“I watched ‘Godzilla Minus One’ and I thought it was a tremendous film,” Nolan told Yamazaki in the below video. “I thought it was so exciting. I mean obviously it’s beautifully made, and the mechanics of it are so involving. It’s so exciting, but also I felt like it had a lot of the spirit of your earlier film, ‘The Eternal Zero.’ It had a depth around the issues surrounding the main story, even though the main story is ‘Godzilla,’ and is an entertaining and exciting one. There was also wonderful depths of the characters, and a wonderful sense of history that I really appreciated.”
While...
The “Oppenheimer” writer/director, whose feature won Best Picture at the 2024 Academy Awards, interviewed “Godzilla Minus One” director Takashi Yamazaki ahead of the release of “Oppenheimer” in Japan.
“I watched ‘Godzilla Minus One’ and I thought it was a tremendous film,” Nolan told Yamazaki in the below video. “I thought it was so exciting. I mean obviously it’s beautifully made, and the mechanics of it are so involving. It’s so exciting, but also I felt like it had a lot of the spirit of your earlier film, ‘The Eternal Zero.’ It had a depth around the issues surrounding the main story, even though the main story is ‘Godzilla,’ and is an entertaining and exciting one. There was also wonderful depths of the characters, and a wonderful sense of history that I really appreciated.”
While...
- 3/18/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
After countless variations and sequels, plus major studio Hollywood versions, Toho is back in the driver’s seat for the first time since 2016 with a new take on the 70-year-old Godzilla franchise, a consistent run far longer than Bond and just about anything else. The very good news here is that just when you thought there was nothing new to do with the giant lizard who enjoys stomping on cities and all their inhabitants, along comes what might be called the first Godzilla art film — or at least one where the humans actually are three-dimensional and recognizable.
In writer-director and VFX supervisor Takashi Yamazaki’s (The Eternal Zero) hands, Godzilla’s screen time adds up to more of a supporting turn to the humans whose lives are deeply affected by his re-emergence. And unlike any previous film, including Ishiro Honda’s irresistible 1954 original, this one isn’t dubbed into English.
In writer-director and VFX supervisor Takashi Yamazaki’s (The Eternal Zero) hands, Godzilla’s screen time adds up to more of a supporting turn to the humans whose lives are deeply affected by his re-emergence. And unlike any previous film, including Ishiro Honda’s irresistible 1954 original, this one isn’t dubbed into English.
- 12/1/2023
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Like a contracted movie star loaned out by a studio in Hollywood’s heyday, Godzilla has returned to Japanese parent company Toho after doing a stint in the U.S. MonsterVerse to take center stage in “Godzilla Minus One,” a stellar entry in the world’s longest continually running film franchise. Set in a devastated post-war Japan, Takashi Yamazaki’s reboot gets back to basics in grand style, with engrossing human drama alongside spectacular mass destruction. Since opening in Japan on Nov. 3, “Minus One” has accumulated a whopping $20 million. Its American and overseas theatrical assault commences Dec. 1, with solid prospects of further expanding the legendary monster’s already massive fanbase.
Hewing closer to the spirit of Ishiro Honda’s 1954 original than other films in the 37-strong series, Toho’s first live-action entry since “Shin Godzilla” (2016) is markedly different from the creature’s recent outings. Produced at a fraction of the...
Hewing closer to the spirit of Ishiro Honda’s 1954 original than other films in the 37-strong series, Toho’s first live-action entry since “Shin Godzilla” (2016) is markedly different from the creature’s recent outings. Produced at a fraction of the...
- 11/22/2023
- by Richard Kuipers
- Variety Film + TV
Takashi Yamazaki's latest feature, “Godzilla Minus One,” is a terrific new entry to the title monster's extensive franchise. Prior, the director had depicted the character in various media, most notably a cameo in the opening of “Always: Sunset on Third Street 2.” For “Minus One,” Yamazaki sets the story in postwar Japan and draws influence from the original “Godzilla” directed by Ishiro Honda, Shusuke Kaneko's “Gmk: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack,” and Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi's “Shin Godzilla.” After closing out the 36th Tokyo International Film Festival, the film opened strong for its theatrical release, becoming a financial and critical success.
Word War II closes, and traumatized kamikaze pilot Koichi Shikishima returns to a devastated Japan under American occupation and is further met with tragedy. Koichi is plagued with survivor's guilt while suffering Ptsd from a horrific encounter he experienced on Odo Island. Yet he finds comfort in...
Word War II closes, and traumatized kamikaze pilot Koichi Shikishima returns to a devastated Japan under American occupation and is further met with tragedy. Koichi is plagued with survivor's guilt while suffering Ptsd from a horrific encounter he experienced on Odo Island. Yet he finds comfort in...
- 11/15/2023
- by Sean Barry
- AsianMoviePulse
“Godzilla Minus One,” the biggest picture to date in the Japanese monster movie franchise and the Wednesday night closing gala title at the Tokyo International Film Festival, is set for pan-European release at the beginning of December.
Rights were acquired for 38 territories by theatrical-only specialist distributor Piece of Magic Entertainment from Toho, the Japanese studio that controls the ‘kaiju’ franchise and distributes the picture in Japan from Nov. 3.
“Godzilla Minus One” takes place in postwar Japan, where Godzilla a new terror rises, forcing the country’s devastated people to not only survive, but fight back. Yamazaki Takashi has multiple credits as director, screenwriter and VFX artist on the film.
It stars Kamiki Ryunosuke, Hamabe Minami, Yamada Yuki, Aoki Munetaka, Yoshioka Hidetaka, Ando Sakura and Sasaki Kuranosuke.
See the new trailer here:
From its origins as an allegory for the devastating potential of the hydrogen bomb, the Godzilla franchise has achieved phenomenal worldwide success,...
Rights were acquired for 38 territories by theatrical-only specialist distributor Piece of Magic Entertainment from Toho, the Japanese studio that controls the ‘kaiju’ franchise and distributes the picture in Japan from Nov. 3.
“Godzilla Minus One” takes place in postwar Japan, where Godzilla a new terror rises, forcing the country’s devastated people to not only survive, but fight back. Yamazaki Takashi has multiple credits as director, screenwriter and VFX artist on the film.
It stars Kamiki Ryunosuke, Hamabe Minami, Yamada Yuki, Aoki Munetaka, Yoshioka Hidetaka, Ando Sakura and Sasaki Kuranosuke.
See the new trailer here:
From its origins as an allegory for the devastating potential of the hydrogen bomb, the Godzilla franchise has achieved phenomenal worldwide success,...
- 10/31/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Anticipation has erupted with the release of the short yet captivating teaser for the upcoming film “Godzilla Minus One,” written and directed by Takashi Yamazaki. The latest return of the King of the Monsters is the 33rd Japanese entry in the “Godzilla” series and the 37th feature total. In addition, the film commemorates the 69th anniversary of the franchise. Similar to the previous live-action feature, “Shin Godzilla,” the movie is set to be a standalone feature.
From what has been revealed of the plot, the film is set in postwar Japan as it is in a state of despair, desperately trying to recover from the devastation from the closing months of World War II. Yet, things are about to get far worse for the country when it is threatened with further destruction by the appearance of a giant radioactive monster, setting the chances for recovery, as the trailer puts it,...
From what has been revealed of the plot, the film is set in postwar Japan as it is in a state of despair, desperately trying to recover from the devastation from the closing months of World War II. Yet, things are about to get far worse for the country when it is threatened with further destruction by the appearance of a giant radioactive monster, setting the chances for recovery, as the trailer puts it,...
- 7/12/2023
- by Sean Barry
- AsianMoviePulse
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