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How ‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ Used Real-World Sound to Make Its Monsters More Terrifying

Sound designer Natsuko Inoue and sound mixer Hisafumi Takeuchi tell IndieWire how they breathed life into the warring monster kings of "Godzilla Minus Zero."

November 6, 2026 5:00 pm

'Godzilla Minus Zero'

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No one is doing monster movies quite like director Takashi Yamazaki and his team — who not once but twice now, with “Godzilla Minus One” and “Godzilla Minus Zero,” have made Godzilla feel both bigger than Tokyo Bay and extremely emotional and personal, even handcrafted. Much of that comes down to the narrative balance between our human heroes and the King of the Monsters, of course.…