Min Tanaka as Professor Murakami made Minus Zero for me. His subdued performance mixed with haunting expressions brought a sense of reverence the Godzilla franchise was born from. I mean the man was born in early 1945. That can’t be a coincidence. THAT scene shook me to my core.
I’ll always remember walking out of the theater BEAMING with happiness and hope.
Fuck corporate greed or whatever other bullshit that tries to tell us that this wasn’t PEAK.
This Godzilla was a problem. The footwork, head movement, feints, mixing in the atomic breath he truly did have it all even got the tail grab to set up Rodan