Godzilla Minus Zero

I haven’t seen Minus Zero yet, but I just rewatched Godzilla Minus One (2023) with my son. It’s just as spectacular as I remember. In case you’re uninitiated, here’s the deal with these titles:

Director Takashi Yamazaki’s idea for Minus One was that postwar Japan had been knocked down to zero, and then Godzilla arrives and drives it below zero. The story is about people climbing back up from there. The title is also a nod to the timeline, since the film is set in 1947, before the 1954 original.

For Minus Zero, Yamazaki has said the…