{"id":97173,"date":"2026-11-02T20:54:03","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T12:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=97173"},"modified":"2026-11-02T20:54:03","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T12:54:03","slug":"godzilla-minus-zero-director-takashi-yamazaki-on-going-deeper-in-japanese-monster-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=97173","title":{"rendered":"Godzilla Minus Zero director Takashi Yamazaki on going \u2018deeper\u2019 in Japanese monster sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/11\/02\/f59127c2-b619-4585-b44e-c522de84dbab_53cbb478.jpg?itok=VKkdIaDn&amp;v=1793603169\" \/><\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">For the veteran filmmaker Takashi Yamazaki, a childhood spent gorging on 1970s and 80s Hollywood sci-fi in the Japanese city of Matsumoto \u2013 where his father worked as a baker \u2013 left a lifelong impression.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">\u201cEver since I was really small, going to the cinema felt like a special event for me,\u201d says the 62-year-old director, whose early cinematic diet consisted of titans such as <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Star Wars<\/em>, <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Close Encounters of the Third Kind<\/em> and <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\"><em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Back to the Future<\/em><\/span>. \u201cThese films almost served as my origin story,\u201d he adds.<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">Fast forward to today and Yamazaki, who is gentle-looking and bespectacled in the <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Spielberg<\/span> mould, is creating origin stories of his own. \u201cI want to capture that feeling and sensation that I had when I was really small and serve it to modern, younger audiences,\u201d he says.<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/entertainment\/article\/3372925\/godzilla-minus-zero-director-takashi-yamazaki-going-deeper-japanese-monster-sequel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the veteran filmmaker Takashi Yamazaki, a childhood spent gorging on 1970s and 80s Hollywood sci-fi in the Japanese city of Matsumoto \u2013 where his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[14527,2626,8829,1884,4886,2506,22301,32354],"class_list":["post-97173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-deeper","tag-director","tag-godzilla","tag-japanese","tag-monster","tag-sequel","tag-takashi","tag-yamazaki","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}