Godzilla Minus One’s Director Is Having the Fashionable Time of His Life This Awards Season

January 17, 2024 E Jazz Reporter

Takashi Yamazaki with a Godzilla figure — Writer-director Takashi Yamazaki brought a friend to the premiere of *Godzilla Minus One* November 10, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.

Let’s give it up for Godzilla Minus One director Takashi Yamazaki, whose red carpet appearances have featured his star in fashionably iconic ways. Yamazaki has taken to X (formerly Twitter) to showcase his chonky Godzilla Minus One action figure, who’s currently having his own awards season adventures.

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An array of Hollywood stars have posed with the filmmaker for some of the most pure and precious photos you’ll see coming out of Hollywood, including A-listers like Steven Yeun (Beef, Nope) and legends like Harrison Ford and Robert De Niro. Oh, to be that portable kaiju for a day!

And…

But also, in a snake-eats-tail moment, Oppenheimer star Cillian Murphy!

and a Hulk!

Let’s not leave out the director’s shoes, which also feature some really amazing claw action on the heels. Who wouldn’t wear those every day if they could? They’re giving dino-mite dapper.

Another pic of the shoes; they’re just that good.

Yamazaki’s footwear at the Godzilla Minus One premiere in Los Angeles. — Yamazaki’s footwear at the *Godzilla Minus One* premiere in Los Angeles.

Watch Godzilla Minus One in theaters, where it continues to rack up box office success, and we’ll keep an eye on the chonky boy on the Oscars red carpet.

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