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Monster movie masterpiece

Godzilla Minus One

Dir Takashi Yamazaki, Japan 2023 Available now on streaming platforms

In 1954 writer Shigeru Kayama and director Ishiro Honda unleashed the greatest movie monster of all time upon Japan and then the world. In a country still raw from nuclear devastation, the atom bomb was given flesh in the form of , a giant dinosaur mutated by radioactive fallout. Producer Tomoyuki Tanaka said of the monster: “Godzilla is the son of the atomic bomb. He is a nightmare

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