Favorite Tokusatsu?
Hi,Maybe others will share what their favorite Tokusatsu show is?Granted, I have not seen them all.I grew up watching the original Ultraman back in the early 70's.It will always hold a place in my...
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Ah, I totally forgot about Giant Robo, I have the English set of it, as well as the movie culled from it. I like it quite a bit too.
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Clockwise - Spectreman, Thunder Mask, Zone Fighter, Silver Kamen (Mask). Iron King, Mirrorman & Fireman...
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I think Ultraman and Ultra Q had the best monsters and special effects of any terebi show, though my favorite TV critter is Eleking from Ultra 7. Iron King had what I thought were the best/wittiest...
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Jules, your statement, "TV is really a much more vast genre in quantity, but not quality" is a bit of an oversimplification. The thing with Japanese television of the 1960s and 1970s is the cinematic...
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I don't mean as an absolute blanket statement, I mean in general or on average. There's a bigger glut of TV stuff a lot of which is formulaic in the extreme but Akio Jissoji's My Home is Earth in...
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Uchujin65 said: "TV and cinema are to some degree different mediums. What works on a "12 screen is different from what is intended to work on a 20 foot one. In general I prefer the latter and prefer a...
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Kaijubait wrote: I think Ultraman and Ultra Q had the best monsters and special effects of any ???? show, though my favorite TV critter is Eleking from Ultra 7. Iron King had what I thought were the...
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Uchujin65 wrote: TV and cinema are to some degree different mediums. Speaking of movies and TV, why didn't Toei make more monster movies for the theater during the 60's? They were in a position to be...
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My favouite monster would be Sudar the giant octopus from Ultra-Q. Ultra-Q was the best of these shows in terms of thier monsters, story, and atmosphere. A close second (in terms of my favourite...
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gorgozilla wrote:I thought ULTRAMAN 80 had some good monsters, but Ultraman 80 himself looked goofy.IIRC, Wasn't ULTRAMAN 80's design originally intended for animation?
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Hachigatsu wrote:Uchujin65 said: "TV and cinema are to some degree different mediums. What works on a "12 screen is different from what is intended to work on a 20 foot one. In general I prefer the...
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I haven't seen many of this type of show, but Ultraman is on top. Zonefighter is a close second.
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Uchujin65 said: "As I said at the beginning, I am not as familiar with Japanese TV as Japanese films, I am just explaining why it doesn't quite appeal to me as much from what I've seen of it. Cinema...
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I prefer films to TV shows simply because 1 movie is cheaper to buy and takes less time to watch than a whole series, especially if it has a serialized story. If I'm in the mood for some dinosaurs,...
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I have to go with Dynaman, the Night Flight version. I know it's silly, but it was the first Tokusatsu I ever saw and I loved it.
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MY PERSONAL FAVORITES 1960s:ULTRA Q (1966)ULTRAMAN (1966)THE SPACE GIANTS (1966)AKUMA-KUN (aka LIL'DEVIL, 1966)ULTRA SEVEN (1967)GIANT ROBO (aka JOHNNY SOKKO, 1967)RED SHADOW: THE MASKED NINJA...
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I am absolutely loving what I've seen of Ultraseven, am getting more episodes the moment I have an extra $20 to throw around. The monsters are more outlandish and the "harder" more futuristic decor...
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Unsurprising, yeah, I heard that it's the most popular and beloved Ultra show there.
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