Shin Godzilla

Co-directed by Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi, Shin Godzilla treats a monstrous Tokyo Bay emergence as a real-time government crisis. As Godzilla mutates from an amphibious crawler into a 118.5-meter towering reactor, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Rando Yaguchi battles red tape and an impending UN nuclear strike to execute a daring deep-freeze operation using coagulant tankers and unmanned trains. Built on a ¥1.3 billion budget, it became Japan's highest-grossing live-action film of 2016.