Shin Ultraman

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Shin Ultraman
シン・ウルトラマン
ShinUltramanPoster.jpg
Director Higuchi Shinji
Writer Anno Hideaki
Starring Saitoh Takumi
Nagasawa Masami
Arioka Daiki
Hayami Akari
Nishijima Hidetoshi
Composer Miyauchi Kunio
Sagisu Shiro
Studio TOHO Studios
Cine Bazar
Distributor TOHO (Retail)
Release date(s) May 13, 2022 (2022-05-13)
April 12, 2023 (2023-04-12) (Retail)
Running time 113 minutes
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A movie released May 13, 2022 (2022-05-13). It later had an American release on January 11, 2023 (2023-01-11). Many of the staff are the same from the 2016 release of Shin Godzilla.

Budget ¥800–900 million, Box office $33.8 million

Kaiju

The S-Class Species given to the Giant Unidentified Life Forms that continue to show up in Japan. The kanji for kaiju is "禍威獣" (threatening beasts of calamity). This is a pun on the normal kanji for kaiju which is "怪獣" which means "strange beast" usually.

SSSP

Stands for S-Class Species Suppression Protocol.

In Japanese they're the Science Special Investigations Squad (Kagaku Tokusou Tai 科学特捜隊)or Katokutai (科特隊) for short.

Cast

Voice Acting

Music

Theme Song

M87 (M八七)(Sony Music Labels)

作詞・作曲・歌: 米津玄師
編曲: 米津玄師、坂東祐大
Insert Song

Kotori (Little bird「小鳥」)

歌: 五木ひろし
作詞: 山口洋子
作曲: 筒美京平
編曲: ボブ佐久間(徳間ジャパン)

Trivia

  • The title shows Shin Godzilla at first, making a joke since a lot of the crew worked on that movie too. This is before the name changes to the true title, Shin Ultraman.
  • Tamura uses a flipping cell phone while Munakata uses an office phone to communicate to each other on the Kaiju matters since their conversations are kept confidential and must not be leaked to the public at all cost.
  • At one point, Kaminaga is reading "The Savage Mind" by Claude Lévi-Strauss which discusses anthropology and human thought.
  • Zarab's name comes from the word "brother" backwards in Japanese.
  • While fallen asleep, the giant-sized Asami gets tied up with wires and plastic sheets. Munakata cites the situation as Sleeping Beauty mixed with Gulliver's Travels as he looks at the computer screen.
  • Taki wears a PlayStation VR during his meeting with Earth's geniuses.
  • Furuya Bin, the suit actor in the original series, is attached to work on this movie. Ultraman is fully CGI throughout the movie, but the character's anatomy in the designs is actually based on Furuya's muscle proportion. Furuya and Anno wear a motion capture suit to supply movement data for Ultraman.

Actor Trivia

Staff

Production: Tsukagoshi Takayuki, Ichikawa Minami, Anno Hideaki
Writer: Anno Hideaki
Music: Miyauchi Kunio, Sagisu Shiro
Director: Higuchi Shinji

Transcript

Shin Ultraman Transcript

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