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Godzilla Minus One Gets Black-and-White Edition on January 12

franchise, will have a new black-and-white version titled Godzilla Minus One/Minus Color (Godzilla -1.0/C) that will open in Japan on January 12. TOHO is streaming a teaser trailer for the news version.

Godzilla Minus One opened in Japan on November 3, 2023 ("Godzilla Day"), which was the anniversary of the first Godzilla film's November 3, 1954 release. The new film screened at The Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) as the closing film of this year's event on November 1.

The film sold 648,600 tickets for 1,041,193,460 yen ($6.93 million) in its first three days in the Japanese box office. The film sold 14.7% more tickets and earned 22.8% more in its first three days than the last live-action Japanese Godzilla film, sold a total of 2.87 million tickets for a cumulative total of 4,425,512,980 yen ($31.04 million).

Kuranosuke Sasaki.

The film nominated the film for Best Foreign Language Film.

Yamazaki is the director and writer, and is also credited for visual effects. Yamazaki has primarily directed live-action films, including the Stand By Me Doraemon.

Sources: Godzilla Minus One official YouTube channel