Godzilla Minus Zero has the most viscerally violent kaiju battle since Gareth Edwards’ 2014 Godzilla. I’d say it easily surpasses that, even with Godzilla’s atomic-heat-ray-down-the-throat finishing move against the bug-like MUTO in Edwards’ movie that rebooted Toho’s franchise after 10 dormant years. In Godzilla Minus Zero, the inevitable showdown between Godzilla and the terrifying three-headed King Ghidorah is a bloody no-holds-barred melee from the get-go, with the two immediately going for each others’ jugular (or whatever the equivalent anatomy is of unknowable monsters from the sea and space). It’s not outlandish to call their fight the most intense monster-on-monster violence portrayed in the franchise’s history. Like Ken Watanabe’s character says in Edwards’ Godzilla, “Let them fight.”

How did writer/director Takashi Yamazaki think about staging this huge, all-out, flesh-ripping, head chopping, arm-tearing kaiju brawl?

“So, I have two cats,” Yamazaki told IGN. “And for the most part, they're very nice and playful with each other, but on a rare occasion I think there's like — I don't know if they're crossing the line between play and actual fighting. I see two creatures fighting each other and I tend to think about my cats when that happens.”

Incredible. Anyone with multiple cats knows exactly what Yamazaki is talking about, and the inspiration is hard to unsee. Ghidorah, even from his first scene of destruction, comes off as somewhat cat-like as he peeks at fleeing people in between buildings, like a cat hunting, before razing the city with his terrifying zaps of thunder breath.

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