Godzilla Minus Zero Leaves Door Open to Another Film

Godzilla Minus Zero ends with Godzilla returning to the sea after helping defeat King Ghidorah, while its human characters flee forces seeking to use the monster as a weapon. The film’s ending also leaves open the possibility of another installment, though director Takashi Yamazaki’s remarks describe only a willingness to consider a future offer from Toho, not a confirmed project. The battle against King Ghidorah turns on Noriko’s exposure to Godzilla cells, or G-cells. The film depicts the mutation progressing after her survival of Godzilla’s heat-ray attack in Ginza, including a yellowing eye and scales and spikes on her neck. Her condition allows her to send a rudimentary bioacoustic call through Professor Murakami’s Resonance Wave emitter, drawing Godzilla toward Ghidorah and rousing him when he is buried beneath rubble. The film’s account says other people near Godzilla in Ginza were also infected, but Noriko was the only one whose body accepted the mutation without killing her. Her ability to draw Godzilla gives the characters a way to direct him, but does not make him an ally of humanity. The ending presents him as a destructive force that leaves after the immediate...