Shin Godzilla (2016)
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.
Directors:
Shinji Higuchi, Hideaki Anno.
Writer:
Hideaki Anno
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Hiroki Hasegawa as Rando Yaguchi : Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary |
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Yutaka Takenouchi as Hideki Akasaka : Special Advisor to the Prime Minister |
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Satomi Ishihara as Kayoko Ann Patterson : US special envoy |
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Kengo Kora as Yusuke Shimura : Secretary of Rando |
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Satoru Matsuo as Syuichi Izumi : Policy Research Council Vice Chairman |
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Mikako Ichikawa as Hiromi Ogashira : Ministry of the Environment Nature |
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Issey Takahashi as Ryu Yasuda : Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Research / Promotion Bureau Director |
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Kanji Tsuda as Fumiya Mori : Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare / Research and Development Division Director |
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Shinya Tsukamoto as Kunio Hazama : Jouhoku University Associate professor |
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Toru Nomaguchi as Tachikawa : Agency for Natural Resources and Energy / Electricity and Gas Industry Department Director |
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Daisuke Kuroda as Tatsuya Negisi : Nuclear Regulatory Agency / Monitoring information Division Director |
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Ren Osugi as Seiji Ookouchi : Prime minister |
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Kimiko Yo as Reiko Hanamori : Minister of Defense |
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Akira Emoto as Ryuta Azuma : Chief Cabinet Secretary |
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Sei Hiraizumi as Yusuke Satomi : Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries |
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Toru Tezuka as Sekiguchi : Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology |
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Kenichi Yajima as Yanagihara : Minister of land, infrastructure and transportation |
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Akira Hamada as Kouno : Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications |
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Ikuji Nakamura as Kanai : Minister of State for Special Missions |
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Tetsu Watanabe as Kooriyama : Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary for Crisis Management |
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Jun Kunimura as Masao Zaizen : JSDF Chief of Staff, Joint Staff Office |
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Shingo Tsurumi as Yajima : JSDF Vice Chief of Staff, Joint Staff Office |
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Jun Hashimoto as JSDF Eastern Army Chief of Staff |
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Pierre Taki as Saigo : Operation "TaBa" Combat leader |
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Takumi Saitoh as 1st. tank squadron captain |
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KREVA as 2nd. tank squadron captain |
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Ken Mitsuishi as Kozuka : Governor of Tokyo |
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Kyusaku Shimada as Katayama : Minister for Foreign Affairs ad interim |
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Tarō Suwa as Tahara : Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications / Disaster Management Division |
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Yū Kamio as Kazekoshi : Executive Secretary to the Prime Minister |
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Arata Furuta as Sawaguchi : Police Agency Commissioner General's Secretariat |
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Moro Morooka as National Police Agency Criminal Investigation Bureau Director-General |
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Kôsei Katô as National Police Agency in charge of crisis management officer |
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Shohei Abe as Fire and Disaster Management Agency in charge of crisis management officer |
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Keisuke Koide as Firefighters of Tokyo Fire Department |
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Hairi Katagiri as Prime Minister's Office staff |
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Suzuki Matsuo as Hayafune : Free Journalist |
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Takahiro Miura as Journalist |
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Yohta Kawase as Journalist |
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Ren Mori as Evacuees |
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Atsuko Maeda as Evacuees Aqua Tunnel |
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Kazuo Hara as Biology Professor |
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Isshin Inudo as Ancient Biologist |
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Akira Ogata as Marine Biologist |
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Hideaki Anno as Bus Driver |
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Kihachi Okamoto as Dr. Goro Maki (photograph) |
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Mansai Nomura as Godzilla (motion capture) |
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Mayumi Ogawa as |
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Katsuhiko Yokomitsu as |
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Yusuke Sugiyama as Ambulance Personnel Who Guides Evacuation |
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Sho Oyamada as Akihisa Yanagi |
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Takashi Kobayashi as official of Japan Self-Defence forces |
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Takashi Fujiki as Tokyo deputy governor |
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Shota Taniguchi as Taiji Sodehara |
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Tomonori Mizuno as Haruomi Aida |
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Keitaro Azumi as deputy minister of foreign affairs. |
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Kôichi Miwa as Jun Komatsubara |
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Yuichi Ito as section chief of Disaster Prevention |
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Koji Seki as |
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So Nozawa as |
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Kou Maehara as |
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Masayuki Shida as |
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Charles Glover as Ranshinggu |
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Takao Kinoshita as |
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Hisao Kanno as |
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Riko Yonemura as |
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Daisaku Nishino as |
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Toshihito Kokubo as |
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Michiko Iwahashi as |
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Shoki Matsui as |
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Ōmiya Ichi as |
| Writing | Hideaki Anno | Storyboard |
| Writing | Masayuki | Storyboard |
| Writing | Kazuya Tsurumaki | Storyboard |
| Writing | Mahiro Maeda | Storyboard |
| Writing | Shinji Higuchi | Storyboard |
| Writing | Ikki Todoroki | Storyboard |
| Art | Yuji Hayashida | Production Design |
| Art | Eri Sakushima | Production Design |
| Visual Effects | Shinji Higuchi | Visual Effects Director |
| Art | Masato Inatsuki | Art Designer |
| Sound | Jun Nakamura | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Toru Noguchi | Sound Effects |
| Visual Effects | Tetsuo Ôya | Visual Effects Producer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Rie Suda | Makeup & Hair |
| Art | Mahiro Maeda | Conceptual Design |
| Visual Effects | Takayuki Takeya | Character Designer |
| Directing | Shinji Higuchi | Director |
| Art | Akira Sakamoto | Set Decoration |
| Visual Effects | Katsuro Onoue | Special Effects Supervisor |
| Crew | Keizo Suzuki | Second Unit Cinematographer |
| Crew | Keiichi Sakurai | Second Unit Cinematographer |
| Directing | Yusuke Ishida | Second Unit Director |
| Sound | Haru Yamada | Sound Mixer |
| Directing | Hideaki Anno | Director |
| Production | Yoshihiro Sato | Producer |
| Sound | Akira Ifukube | Music |
| Writing | Hideaki Anno | Screenplay |
| Art | Mahiro Maeda | Art Direction |
| Visual Effects | Atsuki Sato | Visual Effects Supervisor |
| Crew | Toshio Miike | Visual Effects Art Director |
| Sound | Hideaki Anno | Sound Designer |
| Sound | Shiro Sagisu | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Kensei Mori | Line Producer |
| Production | Masaya Shibusawa | Producer |
| Production | Taichi Ueda | Producer |
| Production | Kazutoshi Wadakura | Producer |
| Editing | Hideaki Anno | Editor |
| Editing | Atsuki Sato | Editor |
| Production | Tsuyoshi Sugino | Casting |
| Art | Eri Sakushima | Art Direction |
| Art | Toshiaki Takahashi | Set Decoration |
| Visual Effects | Shinji Higuchi | Visual Effects Technical Director |
| Editing | Seiji Saitô | Color Grading |
| Sound | Chris Laurence | Musician |
| Editing | Ryuichi Goto | Digital Intermediate Assistant |
| Editing | Kentarô Shima | Digital Intermediate Assistant |
| Production | Minami Ichikawa | Production Manager |
| Production | Masato Inatsuki | Production Manager |
| Visual Effects | Shota Deguchi | CG Animator |
| Visual Effects | Sachiko Eba | Matte Painter |
| Visual Effects | Kanae Ebe | Compositing Artist |
| Visual Effects | Shuncarlos Fukushima | Compositing Artist |
| Crew | Go Fushimi | CG Supervisor |
| Visual Effects | Kimiyuki Hashimoto | Visual Effects Coordinator |
| Visual Effects | Hiromichi Hayashi | VFX Artist |
| Visual Effects | Junya Hirota | Compositing Artist |
| Visual Effects | Yusuke Hirota | CG Animator |
| Visual Effects | Mitsuyasu Inagaki | Compositing Lead |
| Visual Effects | Tsubasa Ishida | VFX Artist |
| Visual Effects | Yutaro Ishida | Compositing Artist |
| Visual Effects | Yutaka Iwama | CG Animator |
| Visual Effects | Kôsuke Kamata | Compositing Artist |
| Visual Effects | Kento Kanda | Visual Effects Producer |
| Visual Effects | Yudai Kato | Compositing Artist |
| Visual Effects | Haruka Kikuchi | CG Animator |
| Visual Effects | Shingo Kobayashi | Compositing Supervisor |
| Visual Effects | Naoki Korematsu | Compositing Artist |
| Visual Effects | Kazuyori Kosaka | Visual Effects Producer |
| Visual Effects | Rinami Kudo | Compositing Artist |
| Visual Effects | Daisuke Kuwabara | Compositing Artist |
| Visual Effects | Miura | CG Animator |
| Visual Effects | Shinji Miyake | VFX Artist |
| Visual Effects | Maki Morikawa | VFX Artist |
| Visual Effects | Koji Nakayama | Compositing Lead |
| Visual Effects | Yoshiya Okoyama | VFX Supervisor |
| Visual Effects | Eisin Okubo | Digital Compositor |
| Visual Effects | Naoki Otsuki | Compositing Artist |
| Visual Effects | Kensuke Saito | CG Animator |
| Visual Effects | Katsuhiko Sakurai | CG Artist |
| Visual Effects | Atsushi Sato | Animation Supervisor |
| Visual Effects | Nobuyasu Segawa | Compositing Artist |
| Visual Effects | Takaomi Seki | Visual Effects Production Manager |
| Visual Effects | Wakako Sekine | Compositing Artist |
| Visual Effects | Nanako Shiba | Compositing Artist |
| Visual Effects | Tetsuya Shiraishi | Visual Effects Director |
| Visual Effects | Atsushi Sugimoto | Compositing Artist |
| Visual Effects | Kazutaka Sugiyama | Modeling |
| Visual Effects | Naotaro Takahashi | VFX Artist |
| Visual Effects | Masaki Takaoka | Visual Effects Director |
| Visual Effects | Yoshiyuki Toyooka | Compositing Artist |
| Visual Effects | Suzuka Uchiyama | Compositing Artist |
| Visual Effects | Takuya Uenishi | Modeling |
| Visual Effects | Takuya Uenishi | Compositing Artist |
| Visual Effects | Teppei Wakabayashi | Visual Effects Producer |
| Visual Effects | Shion Yamada | CG Artist |
| Visual Effects | Hikaru Yamane | VFX Artist |
| Visual Effects | Shoji Yamato | Compositing Artist |
| Visual Effects | Takuto Yamauchi | Compositing Artist |
| Visual Effects | Tsuyoshi Yano | VFX Artist |
| Visual Effects | Tomotaka Yokoo | Compositing Artist |
| Visual Effects | Kei Yoneoka | VFX Supervisor |
| Crew | Mao Asou | Stunts |
| Crew | Hiroki Ezawa | Stunt Coordinator |
| Lighting | Takayuki Kawabe | Gaffer |
| Sound | Masamichi Amano | Music Arranger |
| Sound | Masamichi Amano | Orchestrator |
| Sound | John Barclay | Musician |
| Sound | Mark Berrow | Musician |
| Sound | Daniel Bhattacharya | Musician |
| Sound | Nigel Black | Musician |
| Sound | Rachel Bolt | Musician |
| Sound | Jerome Brown | Musician |
| Sound | Jon Carnac | Musician |
| Sound | Chokkaku | Music Arranger |
| Sound | Chokkaku | Musician |
| Sound | Chokkaku | Music Programmer |
| Sound | Christopher Cowie | Musician |
| Sound | Philip Eastop | Musician |
| Sound | David Fuest | Musician |
| Sound | Junnosuke Fujita | Musician |
| Sound | Stephen Henderson | Musician |
| Sound | Nick Ingman | Conductor |
| Sound | Shigeki Ippon | Musician |
| Sound | Daisuke Kadowaki | Musician |
| Sound | Skaila Kanga | Musician |
| Crew | Masahiro Kawaguchi | Mixing Engineer |
| Sound | Gary Kettel | Musician |
| Sound | Kyoko Kitahara | Music Producer |
| Sound | Peter Lale | Musician |
| Sound | Mike Lovatt | Musician |
| Sound | Martin Loveday | Musician |
| Sound | Junko Miyagi | Musician |
| Sound | Everton Nelson | Musician |
| Sound | Anna Noakes | Musician |
| Crew | George Oulton | Score Engineer |
| Sound | Simon Rayner | Musician |
| Sound | Simon Rhodes | Scoring Mixer |
| Sound | Frank Ricotti | Musician |
| Crew | Shiro Sagisu | Mixing Engineer |
| Sound | Shiro Sagisu | Music Arranger |
| Sound | Shiro Sagisu | Musician |
| Sound | Shiro Sagisu | Music Programmer |
| Sound | Emlyn Singleton | Musician |
| Sound | Richard Skinner | Musician |
| Sound | Owen Slade | Musician |
| Sound | Midori Takada | Musician |
| Sound | Teho | Music Arranger |
| Writing | Mike Wyzgowski | Lyricist |
| Sound | Warren Zielinski | Musician |
| Sound | Roger Linley | Musician |
| Sound | Steve Mair | Musician |
| Sound | Bruce White | Musician |
| Crew | Sean Muramatsu | Dialogue Coach |
| Production | Ken Tajima | Finance |
| Camera | Kosuke Yamada | Director of Photography |
| Visual Effects | Shinji Higuchi | Visual Effects |
| Directing | Katsuro Onoue | Co-Director |
| Directing | Linto Ueda | Second Unit First Assistant Director |
| Visual Effects | Katsuro Onoue | Visual Effects |
| Production | Minami Ichikawa | Executive Producer |
| Production | Akihiro Yamauchi | Co-Executive Producer |
| Production | Takeshi Sato | Production Supervisor |
| Production | Toru Mori | Line Producer |
| Sound | Haru Yamada | Sound Designer |
| Art | Isao Tsuge | Set Decoration |
| Costume & Make-Up | Yûya Maeda | Hairstylist |
| Crew | Katsuro Onoue | Special Effects |
| Directing | Kimiyoshi Adachi | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | Ikki Todoroki | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | Yū Inose | Second Assistant Director |
| Directing | Kazuhiro Nakagawa | Assistant Director |
| Crew | Mansai Nomura | Motion Actor |
| Camera | Keizo Suzuki | Second Unit Director of Photography |
| Camera | Keiichi Sakurai | Second Unit Director of Photography |
| Visual Effects | Keizo Suzuki | VFX Director of Photography |
| Crew | Keizo Suzuki | Special Effects |
| Crew | Keiichi Sakurai | Special Effects |
| Visual Effects | Keiichi Sakurai | VFX Director of Photography |
| Production | Daisuke Katahira | Production Manager |
| Art | Hideaki Anno | Title Designer |
| Visual Effects | Hideaki Anno | Creature Design |
| Visual Effects | Takayuki Takeya | Creature Design |
| Visual Effects | Mahiro Maeda | Creature Design |
| Art | Mahiro Maeda | Concept Artist |
| Production | Asuka Minami | Casting |
| Crew | Hiroshi Iwaya | Military Consultant |
| Camera | Hideaki Anno | Additional Director of Photography |
| Sound | Hideaki Anno | Additional Sound Re-Recordist |
| Camera | Ikki Todoroki | Additional Director of Photography |
| Sound | Ikki Todoroki | Additional Sound Re-Recordist |
| Directing | Kensei Nakayama | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Nao Ichihara | Assistant Director |
| Crew | Saori Masuko | Script |
| Visual Effects | Atsushi Ogasawara | VFX Lighting Artist |
| Lighting | Atsushi Ogasawara | Lighting Technician |
| Crew | Kazuaki Sekiyama | Special Effects |
| Camera | Masayuki | Additional Director of Photography |
| Sound | Masayuki | Additional Sound Re-Recordist |
| Visual Effects | Takeshi Yamazaki | Visual Effects |
| Directing | Junko Kawashima | Script Supervisor |
| Directing | Ryoko Taguchi | Script Supervisor |
| Directing | Hideaki Anno | Second Unit Director |