Tickets are on sale now, and a new trailer was released ahead of Academy Award-winning producer and distributor GKIDS’ rerelease of SHIN GODZILLA. The film comes to theaters nationwide, as well as select 4DX and D-BOX screens August 14 in its original Japanese language with subtitles, including restored text cards and a 4K remaster that has never before been released in North America. The 2016 feature is directed by Hideaki Anno (NEON GENESIS EVANGELION Franchise, LOVE & POP) and co-directed by Shinji Higuchi (BULLET TRAIN EXPLOSION, SHIN ULTRAMAN) with screenplay by Anno and visual effects by Higuchi.
This weekend, co-director Shinji Higuchi arrives to San Diego Comic Con to appear at the official Godzilla panel “Godzilla at 70: Seven Decades of the King of the Monsters.” The panel, which honors seventy years of iconic Godzilla cinema in collaboration with multiple merchandise partners and special giveaways, will be held on Friday, July 25 at 4:15pm in Room 6DE.
SHIN GODZILLA marks GKIDS’ first release of a Godzilla property since the company’s 2024 acquisition by storied Japanese film studio Toho. SHIN GODZILLA also joins GKIDS’ expanding lineup of classic Japanese live-action features, following the company’s first-ever nationwide release of Hideaki Anno’s LOVE & POP.
First released domestically in Japan in 2016, SHIN GODZILLA is the 29th film in Toho’s storied Godzilla franchise, and the first Godzilla film to be released from Toho since 2004’s Godzilla Final Wars, taking a fresh design approach with the iconic monster. The film held a highly successful original box office run, grossing $79 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing Japanese-produced Godzilla film in the franchise’ history, until it was recently surpassed by 2023’s Oscar®-winning Godzilla Minus One. SHIN GODZILLA went on to receive eleven Japan Academy Prize nominations, and take home seven wins, including Picture and Director of the year.
Something has surfaced in Tokyo Bay. As the Prime Minister of Japan pleads with the public to remain calm, a horrific creature of tremendous size makes landfall in the city, leaving death and destruction in its wake. Then it evolves. The government assembles a motley task force to combat the monster when an envoy from the US Department of State delivers a folder of classified documents. On its cover is written “GODZILLA.”
From Director Hideaki Anno and Co-Director Shinji Higuchi, SHIN GODZILLLA offers a thrilling origin story to one of cinema’s greatest creations. Propelled by astounding visual effects and rapid fire dialogue, SHIN GODZILLA is equal parts pulse-pounding action film and venomous political satire, worthy of the franchise’s towering history.
