Godzilla's Japanese name, Gojira (ゴジラ), comes from a combination of the Japanese approximation of "gorilla" (ゴリラ gorira) and the Japanese word for "whale" (クジラ kujira). In Godzilla Minus One, Godzilla is identified as a creature from the folklore of Odo Island, with the film's theater program and novelization spelling its name in kanji characters (呉爾羅 Gojira).[2][5] This same spelling was also used in the original 1954 film, Shin Godzilla, and the novel GODZILLA: Monster Apocalypse. The Bandai M