Godzilla Minus Zero opens in Malaysia on 5 November, and Minus One gets its first wide run here first

Malaysians who missed Godzilla Minus One in a cinema get a second chance a week before its sequel arrives. GSC lists the Oscar-winning film from Friday 30 October, and Godzilla Minus Zero follows on Thursday 5 November, a date Toho Entertainment Asia announced in August, Malay Mail reported.

Why the first film matters here

Malay Mail pointed out that Godzilla Minus One never had a regular nationwide release in Malaysia: it reached Netflix Malaysia in June 2024 and had only limited big-screen showings during the Japanese Film Festival that year. GSC's listing for the special run gives it at 2 hours 5 minutes, with Malay and Chinese subtitles. For anyone who has only seen it on a television, this is the version the director made it for. Takashi Yamazaki told reporters at CinemaCon, in an AFP report carried by Free Malaysia Today, that Godzilla becomes Godzilla when experienced in the theatre.

The sequel, in 1949

Screen Daily's review of 28 September sets the scene: it is 1949, two years after Godzilla levelled Ginza in the first film, and King Ghidorah emerges from a meteorite to lay siege to Japan. Ryunosuke Kamiki returns as the former kamikaze pilot Koichi Shikishima and Minami Hamabe as Noriko, with Hidetaka Yoshioka as the engineer Kenji Noda. The reviewer, Robert Daniels, called it "a massive triumph for writer/director Takashi Yamazaki", and found the effects even more impressive than the first film's. Screen gives the running time as 135 minutes and notes it was filmed for IMAX.

The film had its world premiere at the New York Film Festival on 26 September, Screen reported, and opens in Japan on 3 November. Yamazaki promised, in the FMT report, that this time the audience would get closer to Godzilla than ever before.

IMAX, and six chains

Malay Mail reported that it will also screen in IMAX from 5 November. This site's listings have it announced at GSC, TGV, FST, Amerin, Paragon and 10 Star, which is wide for a Japanese-language film; no sessions are published yet, and no classification. The first film ran to 125 minutes here, the sequel to 135, so evening shows will end late.

Before you book

Watch them in order if you can: Minus One at GSC from 30 October, then Minus Zero from 5 November. The Godzilla Minus One page and the Godzilla Minus Zero page will list every cinema, session and IMAX hall as the chains publish them, usually about a week ahead.