The Japan Society announced last week that it will screen the 13-minute “Bottle George” animated short and the black-and-white Shin Godzilla: Orthochromatic film in Japanese with English subtitles as part of the JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Cinema event at New York on July 10-21.
Shin Godzilla: Orthochromatic, a black-and-white version of Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi’s Shin Godzilla film, debuted in theaters in Japan in October 2023, prior to the opening of Takashi Yamazaki’s Godzilla Minus One film in November.
Shin Godzilla earned 8.2 billion yen (US$75.6 million) at the box office in Japan after opening in Japan in July 2016.
The film won an award at the 56th Japan Science Fiction Convention’s (Nihon SF Taikai) 48th Seiun Awards in July 2017.