Shin Godzilla

Shin Godzilla is a 2016 film about a giant monster that appears in Japan.

Directed and Written by Hideaki Anno.

A god incarnate. A city doomed.  (taglines)

Hiromi Ogashira

• Man is more frightening than Gojira.

Kayoko Ann Patterson

• I won't see a third bomb dropped on the country of my grandmother, who lived through it.

Dialogue

[First scene of the film]

Japan Coast Guard member #1: I've just spotted a pleasure craft drifting off sure of Haneda. Recon and intercept over.

Japan Coast Guard member #2: Roger that.

Japan Coast Guard member #3: Got the vessel in site, from here there's no apparent hull damage. Just called the Glory Maru, requesting owner information now. The meantime, we're going aboard. We are now onboard

Japan Coast Guard member #4: Hello? Anyone here?

Japan Coast Guard member #5: There's no one on the flying deck

Japan Coast Guard member #4: No sign of life. Just some personal effects. No traces of an incident. Maybe a fall overboard? Vessel's vacant, we'll prepare a tow.

[loud underwater explosion occurs]

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Prime Minister Seiji Okochi: Earlier in the day, both the aqua line and the Tama River Tunnel sustained significant damage. We're currently tracking the creature responsible as it moves up Anome River. We've yet dispositively identified what sort of animal it is, but we don't believe that it can come on land, but even though it is unlikely should it beach itself in the bay shallows, there's no need to fear, our experts believe that its own weight will crush it to death. I repeat, there's no danger of the creature coming ashore, so please set your minds in ease, thank you, that will be all.

One of Seiji Okochi's men: Sir, sorry to interrupt. [he tells Seiji Okochi that the creature has gone ashore]

Prime Minister Seiji Okochi: What? it has?

[cut to a montage of Kamata-kun (Shin Godzilla's second form) ravaging through the streets of the Kamata district]

One of Seiji Okochi's men: Well well, no danger of coming ashore huh?

Prime Minister Seiji Okochi: Well now what, I was just proven a liar on TV.

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Radio: The creature's progression, it somehow it suddenly stopped.

Prime Minister Seiji Okochi: Stopped? But why now?

[Kamata-kun (Shin Godzilla's second form) evolves into Shinagawa-kun (Shin Godzilla's third form)]

Rando Yaguchi: Look. It's evolving

[Shinagawa-kun (Shin Godzilla's third form) roars and then continues walking through the Shinagawa area]

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Rando Yaguchi: God-zilla.

Kayoko Ann Patterson: That’s right. It’s the D.O.E.’s code name. Godzilla. He gave it an English name.

Rando Yaguchi: Gojira... What does it mean.

One of Yaguchi’s men: I found one link, on Odo Island where Maki's from, Gojira means “God Incarnate”.

Kayoko Ann Patterson: A violent one, apparently that’s why you put “god” in the name that he gave it.

Rando Yaguchi: Japanese, the characters read Gojira.

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[Shin Godzilla makes a loud footstep]

Rando Yaguchi: So that’s Gojira.

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[Shin Godzilla screams in pain and retaliates with his atomic powers]

One of Okochi's men: Gojira's back has started to glow all of a sudden sir, no more details than that!

Prime Minister Seiji Okochi: What could it be glowing for?

[Shin Godzilla shoots smoke onto the ground, turns it into fire and turns it into a purple beam and destroys B-2 no. 1]

One of Yaguchi’s men: That's everyone, Come on Yaguchi.

Radio: There's been an emergency call from the Yokota Air Base, B-2 number One seems to have been downed.

U.S. Ambassador: But there's no way. That's impossible.

Kayoko Ann Patterson: Godzilla, truly a god incarnate.

Bomber 2 pilot: The target is shooting some unidentified weapon from the front, Bomber 2 and Bomber 3 will circle in from behind. Payback time.

Bomber 3 pilot: Roger. Payback. [B-2 nos. 2 and 3 drop bombs]

[Shin Godzilla closes his mouth and fires photons from his dorsals, destroying the bombs and the bombers, and destroys the city with his beam from his mouth.]

Helicopter pilot: The Prime Minster and his cabnet are onboard and heading to Tachikawa- [Helicopter explodes.]

[Shin Godzilla continues destroying the city with his beam from his mouth, before it goes back into fire and burning the city before he goes into hibernation.]

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Rando Yaguchi: Did it work?

[Shin Godzilla wakes up again, crunches on parts of the vehicles and gets up again]

JSDF member 1: Oh no. THE TARGET HAS RESUMED ACTIVITY! FULL EVACUATION NOW! CHANGE POSITIONS! HURRY! FASTER, ABANDON THE TANKS AND EVACUATE TO THE HOLDING AREA!

[Shin Godzilla breaks a building with his extremely thick legs and makes one last roar before freezing]

Voice on the machinery: Chest area temperature has dropped to negative 196 degrees.

Rando Yaguchi: Gojira. It’s completely shut down. [Sign of relief] Operation Yashiori appears to be a success.

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[last lines of the film]

Rando Yaguchi: I guess now’s not the time to quit. Because things aren’t settled. Not yet at least.

[cuts to Shin Godzilla having halted its evolution to its fifth form and then the end credits roll]

Taglines

• A god incarnate. A city doomed.

Cast

• Hiroki Hasegawa — Rando Yaguchi
• Yutaka Takenouchi — Hideki Akasaka
• Satomi Ishihara — Kayoko Ann Patterson
• Ren Ohsugi — Prime Minister Seiji Okochi

External links

• Shin Godzilla quotes at the Internet Movie Database
• Shin Godzilla at Allmovie
• Shin Godzilla at Rotten Tomatoes