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Shin Ultraman (2022)
Directed by Shinji Higuchi
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Overview
The Japanese government sets up a special task force to fight the giant creatures suddenly appearing across the country. Soon, the squad unexpectedly meets a giant silver humanoid who starts appearing every time a space monster attacks!
Length 112 minutes
Actors
Takumi Saito | Masami Nagasawa | Hidetoshi Nishijima | Daiki Arioka | Akari Hayami | Tetsushi Tanaka | Koji Yamamoto | Ryo Iwamatsu | Kyusaku Shimada | Tôru Masuoka | Keishi Nagatsuka | Hajime Yamazaki | Soko Wada | Yutaka Takenouchi | Issey Takahashi | Kouichi Yamadera | Kenjirou Tsuda | Bin Furuya | Hideaki Anno
Viewing History (seen 2 times)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02/28/2024 | TV | Blu-ray | Owned | 7 stars |
| 01/11/2023 | Movie Screen | Digital | Theater | 7 stars |
| (Average) 7 stars |
Viewing Notes
It’s insane to me that any distributor in this day and age can release a movie on Blu-ray without any quality assurance on the subtitles. Just awful and embarrassingly bad. Fortunately the PQ and audio is very good. Thankfully. Anyways…
Such an odd movie that’s not without its flaws but I do like that Higuchi wanted to get weird with this tokusatsu icon. What weakens the film is how episodic it feels as if it was sewn together from a tv series. FWIW Shin Kamen Rider is the same way but works better as a “monster of the week” formula.
Shin Ultraman, on the other hand, is a lot of downtime. Definitely sags in the middle before resuming another story. But I like the weirdness and unusual camera angles and editing. Plus Masami Nagasawa is awesome and it’s cool they put her at the front of this cast.
This movie could grow on me over time. And I already like it.
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