a dog dies
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No dogs die. If you look closer during the scene, you can see the pet dog running away as Koichi lures Godzilla away.
someone is sexually assaulted
Yes
a child is abandoned by a parent or guardian
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A baby is orphaned during the war
someone leaves without saying goodbye
Yes
there's domestic violence
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Not domestic violence, but the main character briefly grabs a female character in their house at night during an intense PTSD episode
someone smokes or vapes
Yes
an animal dies
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Whenever Godzilla enters an area by water, dead fish from the deep float to the surface. The fish look strange but are intact and have no blood shown.
an animal attacks someone
Yes
there's finger/toe mutilation
Yes
someone breaks a bone
Yes
hands are damaged
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One character has a broken hand/arm in a sling
someone is held under water
Yes
someone is restrained
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Someone has there hands tied behind their back
someone is robbed or mugged
Yes
a baby cries
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Akiko is shown crying. She might technically be a toddler but she's very young.
there are adoption or foster care themes
Yes
a non-human character dies
Yes
a major character dies
Yes
someone dies
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There is a newscast that mentions 30,000 casualties in Godzilla's attack. Many deaths are offscreen but Godzilla is shown stomping and biting several people to death. His "heat ray" also destroys ships and tanks.
someone sacrifices themselves
Yes
there's a funeral or cemetery scene
Yes
a family member dies
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Multiple characters talk about losing people in the war
a parent dies
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There are three characters whose parents are mentioned early on to have died from air raids.
Later on a girl's adoptive mother seems to die from Godzilla's attack on Ginza, and her father states his intent to sacrifice his life to kill Godzilla. Though he ultimately ejects from his plane at the last minute and survives, and the ending reveals that the mother's survived as well.
there are jump scares
Yes
there's natural bodies of water
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The ocean
there's a countdown or time pressure
Yes
there's a scene with extreme heights
Yes
someone vomits
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The film is safe for fellow emetophobes!
someone is eaten
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Godzilla chomps on some people but doesn't eat them, he's seen flinging them away
there's eye mutilation
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One character shown with a bandage over her eye
heads get squashed
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Spoilers for the ending. Godzilla's head is exploded with a bomb and there are scenes where the top of his head, everything above the mandible, is gone.
Godzilla also steps on and tail smashes a lot of people, so their heads got squashed with the rest of them.
there's decapitation
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Spoilers:
Godzilla gets his head blown off after a plane with bombs on it explodes in his mouth.
there are mass casualties
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Godzilla's attacks are shown damaging an entire city, with thousands of casualties. World War 2 and the aftermath in Japan are also seen and mentioned often.
there are 9/11 depictions
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It takes place in the mid-1940s, so obviously 9/11 doesn't occur. However, we do see several large buildings crumble and widespread city destruction, so be aware if that imagery is triggering.
there is copaganda
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The film is pretty firmly anti-authoritarian, focusing on the people of Japan, abandoned by their government, saving themselves, rather than relying on police or military power.
a priceless artifact is destroyed
Yes
there's a hospital scene
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The film’s ending takes place in a hospital.
While nothing tragic happens, it’s still emotional, as it involves the main character finding out someone he loves is okay.
there's dissociation, depersonalization, or derealization
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There are multiple instances where the main character is so overwhelmed by fear/horror he completely shuts down and freezes. There is also an instance where he believes he may not even be alive and his whole life since the end of the war is just a hallucination.
someone suffers from PTSD
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The whole film has themes of PTSD, and in some ways Godzilla functions as a physical manifestation of PTSD
reality is unstable or unhinged
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One character says he is unsure if he is really alive after flashbacks/nightmares
someone has a mental illness
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This being a film set in the direct aftermath of WW2 in Japan, most characters having some form of PTSD almost goes without saying.
someone has an anxiety attack
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The main character has a few. During the island scene early on, he freezes during the first Godzilla attack. He is shown hyperventilating and totally unable to react.
someone has a meltdown
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Due to war and Godzilla PTSD, the main character has a meltdown where he can't tell if he is actually still alive or just the dreams of his dying self. He is left crying and panicking.
someone struggles to breathe
Yes
there are sudden loud noises
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Mostly booming noises, but rarely are they especially jarring or jump-worthy. English subtitles are paraphrased from memory, and some notes are kept as vague as possible to avoid spoilers. Timer starts at this first sudden noise: The alarm sounds on the beach at nighttime, then Godzilla appears somewhat suddenly. 0h22m: Kōichi wakes up crying and says, "Am I even alive? Is this real?!" Then a loud transition. 0h34m: Boat crew see dead fish, they have a longish conversation, after someone says, "Somebody's gotta do it," expect a noise. 0h37m: Godzilla stands up, and right as he's about to roar he's hit with an explosive. 0h48h: On the boat, then sudden splash. 0h49m: Announcement says, "Evacuate, this is not a hoax," then sudden cut to chaos. 0h57m: After devastation, Godzilla lets out a roar that could be startling. 1h07m: Men look out the window, someone flips a switch and then... 1h32m: They're on the ship getting ready, then sirens, then a booming sound. 1h44m: Really quiet, then after someone says, "Did we get him?" there's a rumble. Otherwise, expect a few other moments during the climax (which my friend didn't write down) where a loud noise is preceded by brief silence.
there's flashing lights or images
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Near the beginning of the movie there is a scene where multiple guns are being fired at Godzilla at night, and the flashes are fairly intense.
shaky cam is used
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Only during city evaluation during the climax of the movie.
there's screaming
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Tons of screaming. Entire crowds are shown running and screaming when Godzilla attacks Ginza.
there's underwater scenes
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Godzilla is shown underwater
there is obscene language/gestures
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Only ‘obscene’ language used is b*stard.
there are high-pitched noises
Yes
there are sirens or alarms
Yes
there are repetitive sounds
Yes
the fourth wall is broken
Yes
there is a baby or unborn child
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A baby/toddler.
there's COVID-19
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Takes place decades before COVID.
existentialism is debated
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Not entirely, but themes of destinies and surviving wars come into play for main character having survivor’s guilt.
someone is homeless
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Main character meets homeless supporting character that ends up living with him.
there's environmental destruction
Yes
the ending is sad
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The ending is happy, but comes with the implication that it won’t last
there's end credits scenes?
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One final roar at the end credits but no scene
a plane crashes
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The pilot survives, though.
there's blood/gore
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Not a ton of blood, but a character is shown with blood on him after Godzilla attacks the boat.
there's gun violence
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Multiple guns are shot at godzilla
there's a nuclear explosion
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The attacks and destruction are intentionally evocative of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
there's torture
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Not entirely; main character is bound and punched while being interrogated.
someone is burned alive
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One character recalls that a whole area was “engulfed in flames” and that many people died, but it is not shown.
someone is crushed to death
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Godzilla steps on people. Nothing graphic shown
someone is buried alive
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No, but buildings collapse and it's assumed that people are trapped underneath
someone falls to their death
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During the destruction of Ginza, we see a building that a news team is standing on top of crumble to the ground. It can be assumed that they do not survive.
someone falls down stairs
Yes
Someone becomes unconscious
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Character is knocked unconscious but hes ok
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