Godzilla Minus One Interview: Director Takashi Yamazaki & Star Ryunosuke Kamiki On Their Ambitious Monster Reboot

After seven decades of seeing the creature terrify modern settings, Godzilla Minus One is going back to its roots and exploring one of its earliest stories yet. Set in 1945 shortly after World War II, the movie sees postwar Japan being terrified by the eponymous monster and centers on the country’s efforts to put a stop to his new reign of terror, while also exploring some of the humans at the heart of it all, including Kōichi Shikishima, a kamikaze pilot grappling with his lack of courage to go through with killing himself to take out his foes.