Japan Shin Godzilla returned 5.2× its production cost, earning $77.9M against a $15.0M budget — one of the highest-return Japan films in our catalog.
Synopsis
シン・ゴジラ
“Reality (Japan) vs. Fiction (Godzilla)”
When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side – the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.
Audience Engagement
1,001 audience reviews — more than 97% of Japan films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 89th percentile among Japan films.
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 2h 0m runtime, production spent $125K per minute on screen and earned $650K per minute back.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Shin Godzilla. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Other Titles From Toho Pictures
Action + Science Fiction in Japan
324 Japan titles in our catalog blend the Action and Science Fiction genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Shin Godzilla itself).
The 2015–2017 Japan Window
Shin Godzilla holds position #273 of 588 Japan films in the 2015–2017 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2010s Japan Landscape
2016 was the decade’s peak output year for Japan — 213 titles released, including Shin Godzilla. Bars below show how the 2010s stacked up year by year (1769 total).
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 212 other Japan films in 2016.
The 3391st Japan title from Japan we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1899).
Our Japan catalog contains 4,579 titles in total (2,908 films).
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Shin Godzilla, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- destruction · 5
- intense · 4
- bureaucracy · 3
- human made disaster · 3
- nuclear disaster · 3
- nuclear radiation · 2
- satirical · 2
- political incompetence · 1
- hopeless · 1
- political turmoil · 1
- us japan relations · 1
- scathing · 1
- godzilla · 30
- reboot · 13
- japan · 454
- japan · 454
- monster · 91
- tokyo · 78
- kaiju · 77
- giant monster · 64
- politics · 39
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #1,912 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (58th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Among Japan Action productions specifically: #789 of 1,714 (top 46%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Spoken Languages | Italian, German, English, Japanese |
| Production Companies | Toho Pictures, Cine Bazar, TOHO |
| Runtime | 2h 0m |
| Release Date | July 29, 2016 |
| IMDb | tt4262980 |