Humanity fights atomic breath with fire in trailer for Godzilla Minus Zero

According to the official release from TOHO/GKIDS, Zero reunites Ol’ Atomic Breath with the Shikishima family—war hero Kōichi (Ryunosuke Kamiki), Noriko (Minami Hamabe), and their adopted child Akiko (Sae Nagatani)—two years after the nuclear-addled carnage of One. Per the logline for the film, “humanity [has] managed to cling to a hard-won peace,” but as peace is rarely a factor in kaiju situations such as these, “a new threat strikes, crushing hope in an instant. There is no third time. Everything ends here.” The trailer’s final shot, which we won’t spoil, suggests whatever this “new threat” that befalls Japan is, it won’t be simply beyond humanity’s reckoning but perhaps even beyond Godzilla itself. Ain’t that always the way?

Godzilla Minus Zero will premiere at the New York Film Festival on September 26, followed by the Japanese premiere on November 6. The film releases in North America on November 6.