![]() ![]() These guys only hint at their inner demons they often literally wear their trauma on their sleeves since the ash and grime of post-war recovery have already overtaken them. His intense need to prove himself is paralleled but never matched by fellow cast-offs like Kenji Noda ( Hidetaka Yoshioka), a bookish ex-weapons engineer, and Sosaku Tachibana ( Munetaka Aoki), an ex-Navy mechanic. “I would like to try to live again,” Koichi says with square-jawed sincerity. ![]() That last part is crucial, but overcoming spiritual decline is also a big part of Koichi and therefore, Big G’s story in “Godzilla Minus One.” At the same time, Koichi’s loved ones are still very dead, so now he has to take care of other survivors, most of whom have also lost their loved ones, their homes, and their will to fight. Reviving Koichi’s ultimately patriotic mojo takes priority since that sort of nationalistic passion is apparently essential to fighting Godzilla. ![]() As a result, several fellow army men die, leaving Koichi to bury their bodies. In an establishing scene on Odo Island, Koichi takes aim at Godzilla but can’t bring himself to shoot. If traumatized survivors like disgraced kamikaze pilot Koichi Shikishima ( Ryunosuke Kamiki) can’t stop Godzilla, he will destroy Ginza and then stomp all over Tokyo. Here, Godzilla’s presence is a given, as it probably should be after dozens of movies and spinoff projects. Set in 1946, “Godzilla Minus One” follows a spiritually depleted group of ex-military men as they rally to vanquish everyone’s favorite kaiju antihero. ![]()
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