Netflix Gets The Best Sci-Fi Blockbuster Of The Decade

Godzilla Minus One is the first and, so far, only Godzilla movie to show Godzilla attacking Japan prior to 1954. In fact, it’s one of only two Toho movies not to accept the 1954 attack from Gojira as canon.

The other is Shin Godzilla, which, unlike Godzilla Minus One, is not on Netflix—or streaming anywhere for that matter.

Godzilla Minus One begins with a desperate Japan ordering Kamikaze pilots to sacrifice themselves in one last military hissy fit to try and wound the Allies in WWII. The main character, Koichi Shikishima, is too afraid to carry out his suicide mission and instead lands on Odo Island, claiming his plane needs repairs.

A giant dinosaur-like creature appears, and Shikishima, paralyzed with fear, fails to shoot it, allowing the creature to kill most of the other soldiers on the island.