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Godzilla: The Planet Eater (2018)

★ 6.5 · 399 ratings on TMDB

Bow down and worship the golden demise.

Godzilla: The Planet Eater poster★ 6.5

With no means for defeating Godzilla Earth, mankind watches as King Ghidorah, clad in a golden light, descends on the planet. The heavens and earth shake once again as the war moves to a higher dimension.

DirectorHiroyuki Seshita, Kobun Shizuno
CastAri Ozawa, Daisuke Ono, Kana Hanazawa, Kazuya Nakai, Kenyu Horiuchi, Mamoru Miyano
GenresAction, Adventure, Animation, Science Fiction
The emergence reading

In Godzilla: The Planet Eater, consciousness is carried by aliens — a plane of “kaiju cosmos”. The story fights on E8/E13 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing faith, survival, power, culture.

↷ aliensJPfaithsurvivalpowerculture
Also inFilms about faithConsciousness hiding in aliensFilms about survivalFilms that move consciousness off the human
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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)E8/E13 · rare rung · faith, powerAvengers: Infinity War (2018)E8/E13 · rare rung · powerZack Snyder's Justice League (2021)E8/E13 · rare rung · powerThor: The Dark World (2013)E8/E13 · rare rung · power10,000 BC (2008)E8/E13 · rare rung · faith, survivalThe 5th Wave (2016)E8/E13 · rare rung · survival

Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)E7/E12 · rare rung · culture, powerDr. Dolittle 2 (2001)E7/E9 · rare rung · culture, powerGodzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)E7/E10 · rare rung · power, survivalDogma (1999)E9/E10/E14 · rare rung · faith, powerThe Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)E9/E14 · rare rung · culture, survivalAsterix: The Mansions of the Gods (2014)E9/E12 · rare rung · culture, power

Also hides consciousness here

Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.

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Same subject, different mask

The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters (2017)dir. Hiroyuki SeshitaGodzilla: City on the Edge of Battle (2018)dir. Hiroyuki SeshitaLUPIN THE 3rd vs. CAT'S EYE (2023)dir. Hiroyuki SeshitaJujutsu Kaisen 0 (2021)Kana HanazawaBatman Ninja (2018)Daisuke OnoBerserk: The Golden Age Arc I - The Egg of the King (2012)Takahiro Sakurai