Godzilla/Gojira was born out of nuclear anxiety in the post-Hiroshima 1950s, so a reboot makes perfect sense for the angsty post-Fukushima teens. Apparently enough time has passed in the five years since the tsunami and nuclear emergency to destroy Tokyo again, but the echoes of the real tragedy conspicuously reverberate in the King of Monsters’ latest outing.
Fittingly, the creator of the Evangelion franchise and the special effects director of the more serious 1990s “Gamera” reboot trilogy explore those apocalyptic themes in Hideaki Anno and co-director Shinji Higushi’s “Shin Godzilla,” a real deal Toho-produced Japanese-language Godzilla movie, which opens this coming Tuesday for a special week-long run in select cities.
'Shin Godzilla' harkens back to the moodiness of the original, unadulterated 1954 'Godzilla.'
