Source Japan | Publisher : Toho | Release date 1 May 2024
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.39
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
Japanese Dolby Atmos
Japanese Dolby TrueHD 5.1
Japanese Dolby TrueHD 2.0
Subtitles
Japanese
Rated 4.5 out of 5
Artistic : 8 | Video : 9 | Audio : 9.5
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Test equipment and condition (Config. HP: 5.1.4)
Video broadcaster : Sony Bravia XR-65A95L (Dolby Dark Vision)
Sources : Oppo UDP-203 Audiocom Reference | Zappiti Reference
Pregnant : Sennheiser Ambeo Soundbar Max (Dolby Atmos), SVS SB-4000
WORK - The Trauma of War
Japan is barely recovering from World War II that a gigantic peril emerges off Tokyo... Godzilla! Koichi Shikishima, a guilty pilot, sees this opportunity to buy back his conduct during the war.
Despite its modest production (a budget of $15 million), this great human scale monster movie that returns to the sources of the saga managed to humiliate the MonsterVerse Hollywoodian (excluding its very beginning). Retro tribute to The founding episode of 1954 and bereaved blockbuster, this 37th part (and 5th part of Reiwa era) awarded with an Oscar of the best visual effects addresses the guilt of the survivor as well as the heroism of the daily while the show, deeply pacifistic and caring for the reconstruction, does not fail in any way on the specifications of the good kaijū eiga respect. The titanic creature, a metaphor for the traumas of war and the destructive power of the atomic bomb, gives to heart joy in superlative destruction sequences. Hail to the King!
« The future of this country is in our hands. »
IMAGE - The terror coming from the seas
From a digital 6K capture finalized in 4K during post-production, this UHD Dolby Vision transfer approved by Takashi Yamazaki In person tramples on its HD counterpart despite a handful of underwater planes where postrization persists.
Compression is more solid (the tingling no longer comes when the dust covers the places of action), the contribution of definition is really significant (even in the many composite planes that are necessarily softer), the fine details gain sharpness (the textures of the skin and clothing) and the slight patina falsely silvery looms with more finesse.
The colorimetric palette « Deaf » (grey and brown tints predominate) developed by Kōzō Shibasaki benefits from a presentation of its rare primary (the deep blue of the ocean), of some of its secondary (green grass on the Odo island, the bright orange of explosions) and of its carnation (in better health since more warmly pigmented). As for the contrasts, which are beautifully natural, they capture an excess of precision allowing for greater legibility in the dark (cf. the very first appearance of Godzilla) and an enhanced radiance of light sources (the solar radiation, the turquoise blue of the dorsal spines of the giant lizard), moreover much better capped (the filaments of the bulb in Koichi's living room).
On the 3rd disc (the second Blu-ray), the version Minus Color, black and white variant meticulously processed image by image of Godzilla Minus OneWait for you... With its striking contrasts where blinding lights and threatening shadows underline the desperation of the situation, this monochromatic transformation undeniably evoking the films of watches d Whilst (especially since the granularity is more marked) goes far beyond the simple nostalgia that it provokes. A renaissance in shades of grey which, by a more austere graphic atmosphere where smoke is better noticed, amplifies the tacit trauma of a nation, overflows with raw emotions (since stripped of its colors) and shows a Godzilla more terrifying than ever. In short, a different experience whose obsessive beauty is restored in all its hardness by a master HD (1080p/24) almost exemplary.
SON - The rage of living
Extreme aggressiveness (in the presence of Big G) and absolute immersiveness, this Dolby Atmos soundtrack that crushes everything in its passage expresses its devastating intentions from the first seconds...
The dynamics are titanic, the aerial channels are exploited with as much intelligence as generosity (the Shikishima aircraft, the roarings of Godzilla, the rain falling on the roofs, the splashing of water), horizontal spatialisation is illustrated in a wide way (the noise of the waves, the movements of crowds), the dialogues are perfectly restored even when the creature sows chaos around it (in particular at the beginning of the day). Ginza), the atmosphere music with striking sounds of Naoki Satō (where the legendary theme ofAkira Ifukube made of notable appearances) sounded with great fidelity and the bass, which could nevertheless have dug even deeper, nevertheless remained vehement (the heavy step and the atomic breath of kaijū).
CONCLUSION - Gojira ga kita!
After the disaster Shin Godzilla, this opus produced by society Tōhō to celebrate the 70th anniversary of his star kaijū is a great emotional spectacle that, on 4K Ultra HD support (A/V full Dolby performances that are nothing short), gives even more monstrous sensations. With its destructive force and human values, no doubt the outsider has imposed himself against the big US industrial machinery!
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