Title Question
Why minus one?
shareBecause Kong is not in this movie
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After I see it tonight I may have a different idea, but the meaning I take away from it now is that post-war Japan was in awful shape. They weren't starting from zero, they were starting from -1, and then along comes Godzilla to make things even worse. This is pure speculation on my part, but it's what came to mind first when I saw the title.
shareIt could also be a hint that Godzilla is the only monster in the movie. Pretty much all the other Godzilla flicks all had at least another monster in it
shareThis is precisely what I take it to mean as well
shareI think it's hinting at a multiverse...
shareJapan was crushed by war, so they're at zero. Then Godzilla brings them into negative territory.
"In an interview with Forbes, Toho International President Koji Ueda stated:
The concept is that Japan, which had already been devastated by the war, faces a new threat with Godzilla, bringing the country into the ‘minus.’"
I assume that it is because it is a prequel of sorts to the very first Godzilla movie from the 1950s, as it takes place at an earlier date. That one was Zero, this one in Minus One.
in comics, issue zero is a prequel that comes before issue 1
so -1 would come before even that
Just my meaningless names Fan-Fiction:
The "creature" that makes the attack on Odo island in March 1945 was the Godzilla-Minus-1. Much smaller in stature this Gojira had been attacking islands before the Odo attack and this creature is indeed stoppable. The Kamikaze pilot (Koichi Shikishima) has a plane with a large caliber weapon that actually probably could have killed the aggressive Gojira. Koichi is very much a disillusioned and cowardly pilot (can't say pacifist) that just can't complete his missions, because he wants to live.
During the 1946 nuclear bomb test near the Bikini Atoll islands it is assumed that the Gojira creature had been present and now has mutated based on the many nuclear tests done in and around that area.
To me that becomes Godzilla-Zero
After the creature is finally confronted in what is thought to be a final "Death-Strike", we see the ending of the movie and what may very well be Godzilla-Plus-One.