Shin Godzilla

About Shin Godzilla

When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower.

Shin Godzilla is a 2016 horror science fiction film directed by Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi. Released in July 2016, it runs 120 minutes.

Its themes are satirical, giant monster, kaiju, and tokusatsu.

Hiroki Hasegawa takes the lead as Rando Yaguchi, Yutaka Takenouchi as Hideki Akasaka : Special Advisor to the Prime Minister, Satomi Ishihara as Kayoko Ann Patterson : US special envoy, and Kengo Kora as Yusuke Shimura : Secretary of Rando. The screenplay is by Hideaki Anno. Produced by Cine Bazar. It streams on HBO Max and HBO Max Amazon Channel in the United States.

Godzilla, Godzilla Raids Again, and Godzilla 1985 make useful companions to Shin Godzilla, all filed under godzilla and japan. TMDB voters put it at 7.3 out of 10 across 1,694 votes and it carries a PG-13 rating.