Shin Godzilla on BD

[canofhumdingers]

Subtitles for this film are dead to me. Go Dub or go home!

[Ultra T-Rex]

[O.Supreme]

Most people probably already have this, but for Amazon prime members, it's on sale for a pretty good deal at the moment. prime day has offered other Godzilla DVD & BRD as well, but nothing really super outstanding.

https://www.amazon.com/Shin-Godzilla-Bl ... 66H38H00H5

[kiryugoji04]

Boycotted Prime Day in solidarity with the workers' strike but that's cool they've been discounting Godzilla stuff.

[Dr Kain]

[lhb412]

I also tried to avoid any Amazon subsidiaries these last two days.

... accidentally broke that vow early yesterday morning when I absentmindedly watched an episode of Mirrorman on Prime (via Toku).

... but other than that? I ain't no scab, except for Mirrorman that one time.

[kiryugoji04]

I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed. <3

[Dr Kain]

[jellydonut25]

Let's steer this back to Shin Godzilla on BD...a couple posts have been reported.

[Dr Kain]

[lhb412]

Well, it seems the physical release is out of print and it's no longer available digitally.

... when Shin Godzilla comes back to print will it be through Criterion or Toho directly? Place your bets!

(Of course, my dream would be Criterion does all three Shin films)

[Dai]

I can't believe that movie is nearly a decade old already. Or that we've had three Hollywood Godzilla movies since then. Where did the time go?

[Benjamin Haines]

When Shin Godzilla was released, Barack Obama was still the US president, Peter Capaldi was still playing the Doctor, the Summer Olympics were held in Rio de Janeiro, Netflix had only been producing their own shows for three years and still did their DVD-by-mail service, Covid-19 didn't exist yet, the newest Marvel Studios movies were Captain America: Civil War and Doctor Strange, and this message board was still fully functional.

[lhb412]

Well, seems GKIDS just applied to the MPAA for a rating for Shin Godzilla, so it certainly seems like they'll be handling the new release. Crossing my fingers for 4K, orthochromatic, and extras!

Wouldn't suprise me if the Minus One release eventually switches over to being produced by them. Maybe if the GKIDS acquisition had been a little earlier they would've handled it from the beginning and it would've been less scattershot?

[Benjamin Haines]

I wonder if a Shin Godzilla release from a Toho-owned GKIDS would have the theatrical presentation of the movie with all of the onscreen Japanese text intact. Funimation's release featured a clean presentation with all of the text included as English subtitles. The version of Minus One on Netflix has all of the onscreen Japanese text (location markers, etc.) replaced with English text, while the version that Toho released on disc has the theatrical presentation with onscreen Japanese text.

[lhb412]

Rundown of the various editions for the upcoming home video re-release:

- standard Blu-ray: feature disc and extras disc
- standard 4K: feature disc and extras disc (extras disc is Blu-ray)
- steelbook: 4K feature disc, Blu-ray feature disc, extras disc
- Godzillastore exclusive: 4K feature disc, Blu-ray feature disc, Blu-ray Orthocromatic feature disc, extras disc (+booklet)

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This is similar to the variants offered of Minus One, except with the store exclusive being dramatically improved as a full on English language release instead of a Japanese release with English subs only for the feature. It's the clear winner for me, and even if another variant is announced I doubt it could be more complete than this one.

[Benjamin Haines]

The only way in which this doesn't mirror the different editions of Godzilla Minus One is that GKids currently doesn't appear to be planning a DVD release of Shin Godzilla.

Gruv has a collection page up now listing the three different retail editions, currently without a release date: https://gruv.com/collections/shin-godzilla

The Godzilla Store product page for the four-disc set lists an estimated ship date of October 2025 and provides details of the disc contents: https://godzilla.com/products/shin-godzilla-4k-blu-ray-deluxe-collectors-edition

They seem to be actively trying to make these different editions less confusing than with Minus One by giving each disc its own distinct color, no matter which edition you get. The red disc is the movie on blu-ray, the purple disc is the movie on 4K, the black disc is Orthochromatic on blu-ray, and the white disc is the extras on blu-ray. The white disc is in every edition while the black disc is exclusive to the Godzilla Store set. That's easy to follow, although it's only half as helpful to colorblind people, which I guess might be why they made the blu-ray disc red instead of blue.

The movie includes Japanese and English audio options on each disc as well as English, English SDH, Spanish and French subtitle options. The extras have burned-in English subtitles.

The page lists a combined runtime of 224 minutes for the extras. This is what's included:

- Promotional Video Collection
- Making Of SHIN GODZILLA
- Deleted Scenes
- Outtakes
- News Reels
- Previs Reel Collection
- Previs and Special Effects Outtakes
- Visual Effects Breakdown
- Trailer 1
- Trailer 2
- Teaser 1
- Teaser 2

I don't own Toho's three-disc or four-disc Japanese sets from 2017 but Wikizilla lists a breakdown of the extras in those sets: https://wikizilla.org/wiki/Shin_Godzilla#Video_releases

- Trailers, promos, and TV spots (27 minutes)
- footage from promotional events (113 minutes)
- previsualization and storyboards (28 minutes)
- additional previsualization and tokusatsu footage (20 minutes)
- alternate and deleted scenes (45 minutes)
- TV footage shot for the film (35 minutes)
- VFX breakdown (18 minutes)
- general behind-the-scenes featurette (31 minutes)

If Wikizilla's listed runtimes are accurate, the combined runtime of the extras is 317 minutes on Toho's Japanese sets. I'm certainly not griping about getting 3 hours and 44 minutes of English-subtitled extras on this upcoming release but I do wonder about the 93 minutes that apparently are being left out. I guess some of that is promos and TV spots, since the Japanese release apparently has 27 minutes of them while this upcoming set lists just two teasers and two trailers. Maybe the promotional video collection doesn't include all 113 minutes of the footage from promotional events. Then again, maybe these runtimes are inaccurate all around and everything from the Japanese sets will be included after all.

[Dai]

Has there been any word on the method used for Shin's remaster? Is it a conventional upscale or an AI-"assisted" abomination?

[Benjamin Haines]

^ I haven't yet seen this re-release, and while I can't confirm that AI wasn't used in some unwelcome way here, I believe that Shin Godzilla was shot and edited in digital 4K, so there would be no need to upscale it from 2K resolution. Toho released it on 4K disc in Japan back in 2017.

[lhb412]

I've read a few reports from eagle-eyed viewers and there's been no mention of extra digital trickery.

There have been a few comments to the effect that the digital effects were originally finished in 2K so their resolution is a smidgen softer than the live action footage if you're really looking.

[Benjamin Haines]

Although the price of the four-disc set on the Godzilla Store is $55, and the shipping and sales tax brings it close to $70, I was able to use the code KAIJU15 at checkout for a 15% discount and I also signed up to receive a text message with a free shipping code, bringing the total cost down to $50.02 in the end!

[Benjamin Haines]

I got the four-disc set. To my surprise, the booklet has a page listing all of the post-release changes that Hideaki Anno made to the movie from the '1.0' theatrical version to the '2.0' home media version. The only shots with different visual effects are the two that we've known about since 2017 (as seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qammqRhMdeo) but it also lists several other changes to the music volume, the voiceover lines and the onscreen text in various scenes. Here's a photo of that page: https://i.imgur.com/7VfTjua.jpg

The booklet also has a thorough breakdown of the bonus features on the white disc (which is included with every edition of Shin Godzilla from GKids). It even lists their runtimes and music cues!

Promotional Video Collection (27:21 total)
• Super Teaser (0:15)
• Teaser 1 (0:30)
• Toho Cinemas Theatrical Interlude Footage 1 (0:30)
• Toho Cinemas Theatrical Interlude Footage 2 (0:30)
• Teaser 2 (0:30)
• Teaser 2 IMAX + etc. ver. (0:30)
• Trailer 1 (1:30)
• Trailer 1 IMAX ver. (1:30)
• Trailer 1 IMAX + etc. ver. (1:30)
• Toho Cinemas Billboard Footage (1:45)
• Kawasaki Frontale Collaboration Footage (0:34)
• FC Tokyo Collaboration Footage (0:34)
• Teaser 3 (0:30)
• Teaser 3 Toho Cinemas ver. (0:30)
• Trailer 2 (1:30)
• Trailer 2 Toho Cinemas ver. (1:30)
• Toho Cinemas Cinema Mileage Footage (0:30)
• TV Commercial News Flash 2, pre-release (0:30)
• TV Commercial News Flash 2, pre-release (0:15)
• TV Commercial Continuous Shot, pre-release (0:15)
• TV Commercial News Flash 3, pre-release (0:30)
• TV Commercial Action, pre-release (0:15)
• TV Commercial Action, pre-release (0:12)
• TV Commercial Action, pre-release (0:10)
• Trailer 3 (1:30)
• Toho Cinemas Mega Popcorn Notice (1:30)
• TV Commercial News Flash 2, post-release (0:15)
• TV Commercial Continuous Shot, post-release (0:15)
• TV Commercial News Flash 3, post-release (0:30)
• TV Commercial Action, post-release (0:15)
• TV Commercial Action, post-release (0:12)
• TV Commercial Action, post-release (0:10)
• TV Commercial Event, post-release (0:15)
• TV Commercial Action, 1st Place, post-release (0:15)
• TV Commercial Event, 1st Place, post-release (0:15)
• TV Commercial Social Phenomenon, post-release (0:30)
• Fan Cheer Screening Footage (2:44)
• Teaser 2 - Blu-ray & DVD ver. (0:30)
• Trailer 1 - Blu-ray & DVD ver. (1:30)

Making of Shin Godzilla (30:40)

Deleted Scenes (45:25)

Outtakes (15:42)

News Reels (35:13)

Teasers and Trailers (4:00 total)
• Teaser 1 (0:30)
• Teaser 2 (0:30)
• Trailer 1 (1:30)
• Trailer 2 (1:30)

Previs Reel Collection (28:03)

Previs and Special Effects Outtakes (20:15)

Visual Effects Breakdown (17:56)


True to the product page on the Godzilla Store, the total runtime of the bonus features is 3 hours, 44 minutes and 35 seconds.

Comparing these to what's listed on Wikizilla for Toho's 2017 Japanese set, almost all of it lines up. The one thing apparently left out of the GKids release, according to Wikizilla, is "footage from promotional events" running 113 minutes, which would seem to be a rather lengthy omission. On the other hand, the GKids disc has outtakes running 15 minutes and 42 seconds, which Wikizilla doesn't list on Toho's release, and the GKids disc also has duplicate presentations of the main teasers and trailers running four minutes in total. Add it all up and that accounts for why Wikizilla lists the total runtime of the bonus features on Toho's set as being 93 minutes longer but it raises further questions. What exactly is that "footage from promotional events" running nearly two hours and why would it be excluded from the GKids release? Why would that 15-minute outtake reel turn up in this 2025 North American set if it wasn't in Toho's original Japanese set? I'm inclined to believe that Wikizilla is wrong on both of those counts and this GKids release includes all of the bonus features from Toho's set.

[Benjamin Haines]

https://www.dvdcompare.net/comparisons/film.php?fid=42064

According to this webpage, the 15-minute outtake reel was indeed on Toho's original 2017 release, and it also details the event video collection that wasn't ported over for the GKids release.


Event Footage (112:44)

"Shin Godzilla Jet" Showcase Event
Completion Press Conference
World Premiere Red Carpet Ceremony
Post Release Event in Osaka
First Day Stage Greeting
Audience Vocal Screening
Female Exclusive Viewing Conference
All Around Japan! Audience Vocal Screening


That coupled with all of the other bonus features adds up to 5 hours and 33 minutes, excluding the duplicate presentations of the two main teasers and the two main trailers. They were all spread across two discs in Toho's set, which didn't include Orthochromatic as it hadn't been done yet, so I guess there just wasn't enough space for GKids to include that event video collection without adding another disc to their set. Maybe they could have stuck those event videos onto the same disc as Orthochromatic, giving the black disc a total runtime of nearly four hours, but that might have negatively affected the movie's bit rate and reduced the image quality.