Toho put a full-frame IMAX trailer online for Godzilla Minus Zero. The cut is 1.43:1, the IMAX ratio, and it is the first Japanese production cleared to sell itself as Filmed for IMAX. Takashi Yamazaki is back as director, writer, and VFX supervisor. Naoki Sato is back on the score. Japan opens November 3, 2026, which is Culture Day and the anniversary of the 1954 Godzilla. GKIDS and Toho open North America on November 6, the first time a Japan-made Godzilla series film hits both territories in the same week. Latin America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Australia, and New Zealand are in that same window. The world premiere is the Spotlight Gala at the 64th New York Film Festival on September 26. Check out the new trailer below:
The story picks up in 1947’s wreckage plus two years. The synopsis goes as: war took Japan to zero, Godzilla took it to minus, the country clawed back a daily life, then a new threat ends that peace. "There is no third time. Everything ends here." The trailer opens on the idea that Godzilla was not finished. It shows a new kaiju-extermination operation, energy fields, lightning, and a line some coverage heard as "this isn’t Godzilla we are talking about." Viewers and outlets including Ars Technica flagged a roar that sounds like King Ghidorah. Toho has not captioned a second monster by name in the ANN write-up. Treat the three-head read as what the audio suggested, not a press-kit monster list.
Ryunosuke Kamiki returns as Koichi Shikishima. Minami Hamabe returns as Noriko. Hidetaka Yoshioka is Kenji Noda, now running the Disaster Response Bureau. Yuki Yamada, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Sakura Ando, and Mio Tanaka reprise. New names: Min Tanaka as biologist Kanji Murakami, Masami Nagasawa as weather forecaster Makoto Aoyama, Jun Kunimura as Dr. Ogata, Ko Maehara as Murakami’s assistant Akira Hagiwara. Motosuke Iida returns as balloon-section chief Akio Itagaki. Sae Nagatani is back as Akiko.
Production is at TOHO Studios. ROBOT produces. Shirogumi handles visual effects. Cameras are IMAX-certified digital. Yamazaki told Collider a high share of the big fights were framed for full IMAX, which also means heavier CG renders. An earlier teaser already showed New York. This trailer is the Japan-and-operation pass.
Minus One opened November 3, 2023, took more than $116 million worldwide, and $57 million in the United States. It won Best Visual Effects at the 96th Academy Awards, the first Japanese film and first Godzilla film to do that. Netflix has the color and Minus Color versions worldwide. Toho bought GKIDS in October 2024, which is why the U.S. date sits this close to Japan. Yamazaki’s next announced film after this is the English-language Grandgear in February 2028.
November 3 in Japan is a holiday stack: Culture Day plus Godzilla Day. November 6 in North America is the IMAX sell. If you want the ratio the trailer was built for, that is the screen to book it for.
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