{"id":113706,"date":"2025-11-03T21:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T21:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/113706\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T21:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T21:04:07","slug":"you-have-to-watch-this-amazing-all-practical-godzilla-short-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/113706\/","title":{"rendered":"You Have to Watch This Amazing, All-Practical ‘Godzilla’ Short Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Godzilla\u2019s 71st anniversary today, all eyes are on the future<\/a> as Toho prepares for its next major movie, the Godzilla Minus One sequel\u00a0Minus Zero<\/a>. But the day also serves as an opportunity to celebrate the past\u2014and celebrate it in style.<\/p>\n

For the past few years, Godzilla\u2019s anniversary has been marked with the\u00a0Fest Godzilla short film series, directed by Kazuhiro Nakagawa, culminating in last year\u2019s 70th anniversary short that saw Godzilla duke it out with Hedorah, Gigan, Jet Jaguar, and King Ghidorah.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Fest shorts are all about celebrating the\u00a0Godzilla franchise\u2019s traditional filmmaking values<\/a> as much as possible\u2014practical FX and creature suits, miniature sets, and more pyrotechnics than you could shake a kaiju tail at. But while everyone thought it was over, Nakagawa returned to kick off a whole new sequel series. And speaking of pyrotechnics, he\u2019s making Burning Godzilla the star.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s short,\u00a0Shinjuku Burning (watch it on YouTube here<\/a>), features Godzilla going on a rampage in the titular Tokyo ward (including a very cute meta moment where he goes face-to-face with Kabukicho\u2019s very own Godzilla hotel, complete with its statue of the King of All Kaiju perched on top of it). But instead of being pushed back, Godzilla transforms into his gloriously glowy form from the 1995 classic Godzilla vs. Destoroyah\u2026\u00a0just in time to face another monstrous threat.<\/p>\n

\"Godzilla\u00a9 Toho <\/p>\n

Aside from the emphasis on classic tokusatsu filming techniques, the short is in particular interesting for its attempt to do a one-shot-style extended sequence to depict Godzilla stomping through Shinjuku. It\u2019s a very fun way of trying to \u201ctrick\u201d the perspective of the audience as we snake through an actual location to miniature models and blend green screen work to make it all work.<\/p>\n

Even as\u00a0Godzilla looks to its future, it\u2019s a very fun way to celebrate the kind of filmmaking that\u2019s made it all possible for the last 71 years\u2014and based on the ending, it looks like we\u2019ll be getting a few more wonderful celebrations of it for the next few years.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Godzilla\u2019s 71st anniversary today, all eyes are on the future as Toho prepares for its next major…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[146,72846,85,46,397,73493,73494],"class_list":["post-113706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-godzilla","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-movies","tag-short-films","tag-tokusatsu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}