ya Japanese live action movies usaly realy suck. Godzilla's are usealy the crownjewels of their feild (and I'm not makeing that up). One of the resons is bugets and actualy geting them finaced. Movies are, on adverage, $20 a shot there, and most people don't see Japanese flicks. On the other hand, Titanic was in the theaters there for over a year. The thing that's helped lately is US production companies buying the rights to remake Japanese films (the ring, shall we dance). So there's a revival in the marked there.
I do think its funny that the first thing they say about the movie (in the text below, I don't have sound so I can't tell you whats going on there) is that the director is the same one who did Utada Hirkaru's music videos (Hirkaru is probaly the most famous Japanese-american over there, well ok she's probaly as popular as brittney spears over there). The text dosen't say much about the movie, just that it's a remake of some show from the 70's, and I know you're going to laugh at this but I don't know how else to translate this, "New Structure Human Casshern" is the full name. And he;s some immortal, I think I'm reading that right, that fights for humanity.