Ishirô Honda's GODZILLA also commences the kaiju universe that would become a mainstay in Japanese cinema. Then almost seven decades later, the latest iteration is Takashi Yamazaki's GODZILLA MINUS ONE, a box office prizewinner around the globe and a critical darling too, nabbing ...
Wikimedia Commons J7W Shinden taxiing in film Godzilla Minus One. So, the audience could be forgiven for assuming that the Shinden is an invention of the movie designed on the basis of ‘rule of cool’. But that’s not the case—the Shinden really did exist in flyin...
“Godzilla Minus Oneuses a full-sized model of the Shinden (a prototype fighter plane), as well as miniatures in some scenes, effectively integrating them with CGI. Yamazaki was not focused on the question of whether to usetokusatuor CGI, but on finding creative ways to bring power to the...