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. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.
Direction
Anno's frantic cabinet meeting chaos is pure cinema.
Practical Effects
Godzilla's grotesque evolving forms are nightmare fuel done right.
Score
Shiro Sagisu remixes classic Ifukube with apocalyptic dread.
Director
Shinji Higuchi
Hiroki Hasegawa
Rando Yaguchi : Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary
Yutaka Takenouchi
Hideki Akasaka : Special Advisor to the Prime Minister
Satomi Ishihara
Kayoko Ann Patterson : US special envoy
Kengo Kora
Yusuke Shimura : Secretary of Rando
Satoru Matsuo
Syuichi Izumi : Policy Research Council Vice Chairman
Mikako Ichikawa
Hiromi Ogashira : Ministry of the Environment Nature
Issey Takahashi
Ryu Yasuda : Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Research / Promotion Bureau Director
Kanji Tsuda
Fumiya Mori : Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare / Research and Development Division Director
Shinya Tsukamoto
Kunio Hazama : Jouhoku University Associate professor
Toru Nomaguchi
Tachikawa : Agency for Natural Resources and Energy / Electricity and Gas Industry Department Director
Daisuke Kuroda
Tatsuya Negisi : Nuclear Regulatory Agency / Monitoring information Division Director
Ren Osugi
Seiji Ookouchi : Prime minister
Kimiko Yo
Reiko Hanamori : Minister of Defense
Akira Emoto
Ryuta Azuma : Chief Cabinet Secretary
Sei Hiraizumi
Yusuke Satomi : Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hideaki Anno was in deep depression during production; the film's bleak bureaucratic satire mirrors his Evangelion work. He also voiced Godzilla's roars in early tests.
The endless conference room scenes directly satirize Japan's actual 2011 Fukushima response, where officials famously delayed action waiting for approvals. The film became the highest-grossing live-action Japanese film of 2016.
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