The central gag of government staff workers endlessly running into offices drowning in the bureaucratic process, ran dry after twenty minutes.įor Shin Ultraman, writer-director Shinji Higuchi tones down that satirical voice. Shinji Higuchi's last film Shin Godzilla, a satire about government bureaucracy disguised beneath a kaiju movie, was a head scratcher that played better in premise than in execution. The Japanese government established the SSSP, the S-Class Species Suppression Protocol, to eliminate all threats.Ī mysterious alien entity, dubbed Ultraman, appears to save humanity from the giant monsters. In a reimagining of the Ultraman story, giant unidentified lifeforms known as 'S-Class species' begin to emerge on Earth. However, Shinji Higuchi's direction is too matter-of-fact for its own good, rendering the film cold when there's no battles happening. Its special effects, shrewdly combining retro scale-model special effects and CGI, has real weight and it brilliantly creates a look of its own. Shin Ultraman, the second entry in the Shin tokusatsu series, is an entertaining retro throwback to old practical effects kaiju films. Reviewed by ObsessiveCinemaDisorder 7 / 10 An entertaining retro throwback to Ultraman that's too deadpan for its own good 'Ultraman (tentative name), identity unknown'.-Tsuburaya Productions Analyst Hiroko Asami (played by Masami Nagasawa) is newly appointed to the SSSP to deal with this giant and is partnered with Shinji Kaminaga. The members chosen for the unit are: Leader Fumio Tamura (played by Hidetoshi Nishijima), Executive Strategist Shinji Kaminaga (played by Takumi Saitoh), Unparticle Physicist Taki Akihisa (played by Daiki Arioka), and Universal Biologist Yume Funaberi (Akari Hayami) As the threat of S-Class Species worsens, a silver giant appears from beyond Earth's atmosphere. Having exhausted all other options, the Japanese Government issued the S-Class Species Suppression Protocol and formed an enforcement unit, known as the SSSP.

Conventional weapons have no effect on them. The continued appearance of giant unidentified lifeforms known as 'S-Class Species' has become commonplace in Japan.

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