Godzilla Minus Zero opens to strong box office, sets domestic record for foreign film

Deadline reports Godzilla Minus Zero opened in the U.S. to between $30 million and $33 million, the largest domestic opening weekend ever for a foreign-language film. The film is directed by Takashi Yamazaki and is a follow-up to Godzilla Minus One. Aopok's review notes the story picks up two years after the prior film, following Koichi Shikishima, played by Ryunosuke Kamiki, living with Noriko Oishi, played by Minami Hamabe, as a new monster threat emerges. The review names King Ghidorah as the additional monster that complicates the plot and says the movie expands the scale of destruction and the human drama. The box office result establishes a domestic milestone for live-action foreign-language releases in the U.S.