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Toho CEO Matsuoka Hiro On The Company’s Decision To Self-Distribute ‘Godzilla Minus One’ In The U.S. — Tokyo

“It was all a coincidence,” Toho CEO Matsuoka Hiro said this afternoon during a Q&A at the Tokyo Film Festival when quizzed on his company’s decision to re-enter the U.S.

✦ Extractive summary — built from the sources' own reporting•From 1 source•1 min read•Updated October 29, 2026, 7:10 AM UTC

market in 2023 to distribute Takashi Yamazaki’s box-office hit Godzilla Minus One.

Godzilla Minus One opened Stateside in December 2023 and earned more than $11.4 […].

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