This is the real deal. Kamikaze pilot who chickened out at the end of WWII has repeated confrontations with: 1) his feelings of failure for not sacrificing himself in the Big One; and 2) one hell of a monster in Godzilla, who only enhances himself after a close call with the Bikini A Bomb test. Along the way our hero returns to a war torn Tokyo, and adopts a woman who has herself adopted a child among the ruins.
The immediate post-war Tokyo is excellently portrayed, as is the platonic relationship between our hero and his charges. Our hero gets a job exploding live mines in the waters off Tokyo when the Big Guy returns much more buff then his first appearance and trashes the whole city. After another trashing of Tokyo things finally come to a head.
As with any really good foreign movie, you forgot you were reading dialogue rather than hearing it about two minutes in. The cast is uniformly excellent. The story of our hero, the woman and the child is an interesting side story, along with the crew of the ship our hero works on.
Watching a foreign movie was a breath of fresh air compared to the PC/woke-infested drivel spewed out by current US filmakers.
The immediate post-war Tokyo is excellently portrayed, as is the platonic relationship between our hero and his charges. Our hero gets a job exploding live mines in the waters off Tokyo when the Big Guy returns much more buff then his first appearance and trashes the whole city. After another trashing of Tokyo things finally come to a head.
As with any really good foreign movie, you forgot you were reading dialogue rather than hearing it about two minutes in. The cast is uniformly excellent. The story of our hero, the woman and the child is an interesting side story, along with the crew of the ship our hero works on.
Watching a foreign movie was a breath of fresh air compared to the PC/woke-infested drivel spewed out by current US filmakers.