Friday 16 October 2009

Ultraman Movie!

I suppose those that I grew up with would know the Japanese Ultramen. The huge superheroes that fight against equally huge monsters would crash into hills and buildings that appeared to be kinda real during my childhood. I was totally surprised at how fake they were when I occasionally revisited the series.

I am glad that the franchise still exists, though I do not know what incarnation it had gone through. It was interesting to find out from dannychoo.com that an ex-Japanese prime minister voiced Ultraman King in the latest Ultraman movie called Ginga Densetsu.
It was also a pleasant surprise to see that the movie is graphically superior to what I always thought Ultraman to be:

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