Shin Godzilla GKIDS re-release

[lhb412]

It's official; GKIDS has snapped up the rights to Shin Godzilla and the new (to us in North America, at least) 4K version of the film will go back into theaters this August before being made widely avaliable on home media.

... and the deliberately overwhelming Japanese text is back!

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/shin-godzilla-gkids-north-american-distribution-rights-1236415553/

[Baltan II]

Very excited for this! I had the original Blu-Ray but this likely means a 4K release and maybe we'll get ORTHOchromatic too.

[lhb412]

^ I'm hoping for ORTHOcromatic and as many other extras they can squeeze on a disc!

[Kailem]

ORTHOchromatic on any new home release would definitely get me to double-dip, as long as it ended up either being region-free or getting a UK release as well.

I'll definitely keep my eye out for any possible theatrical release over here too. It's been a minute since I last watched Shin, so I'm definitely overdue a re-watch one way or another.

[Benjamin Haines]

Great news! I like how the GKids press release makes a point to mention "restored text cards" in this upcoming re-release. I've always been satisfied with the clean presentation that Funimation put on disc but I do remember how delightfully distracting all of the Japanese text cards were when I first saw Shin Godzilla in a theater, so I'll be glad to finally own that version.

SciFi Japan posted the press release too, with the usual hi-res image of the re-release poster: https://www.scifijapan.com/godzilla-toho/gkids-to-release-shin-godzilla-4k-to-cinemas-august-14

[lhb412]

Fandango has listings up for my local AMC theaters.