Ultra Q The Movie: Legend of the Stars Ultra Q and produced by Tsuburaya Entertainment in 1990.
is a tokusatsu Kaiju movie based on the 1966 seriesSynopsis[]
Jun Manjome, an employee at the TTV, investigates a series of mysterious deaths, leading him and his colleagues on a search for Hamano, another employee who went missing while researching for an ancient history program.
Appearances[]
Kaiju[]
Cast[]
- Jun Manjome : Toshio Shiba
- Yuriko Edogawa : Keiko Oginome
- Ippei Togawa : Shingo Kazami
- Mayumi Hoshino : Mio Takaki
- Tetsushi Hamano Masami Horiuchi :
- Takeshi Sasamoto : Toshio Yamauchi
- Ichinotani : Jin Nakayama
- Yamane Minori Terada :
- Morita Shiro Sano :
- Cameraman: Hiroshi Tsuburaya
- News staff:
- Hiroyuki Takano
- Yumiko Tsutsui
- Detectives:
- Yamane's colleague: Yasuhiko Saijo
- Fisherman: Masao Fukasawa
- Apartment resident: Miho Nikaido
- Izu historian: Haruhiko Okamura
- Taxi Driver: Shingo Uchide
- Farmer: Shigeo Kato
- Businessman: Mikio Ozawa
- Yoshinogari clerk: Isao Iwamoto
- Construction site supervisor: Yutaka Ikejima
- Police officers:
- Kunihiko Kojima
- Toshiki Hidaka
- Masayuki Mitsuya
- Ryuji Yamamoto
- Yasunori Yumiya
- Tourism businessmen:
- Atsushi Taniguchi
- Hiroto Masaki
- Masasuke Hirose
- Innkeeper: Keiko Kaga
- Narrator: Koji Ishizaka
- Butoh Dancer and Choreographer: Min Tanaka
Staff[]
- Director: Akio Jissoji
- Screenplay: Mamoru Sasaki
- Photography: Masao Nakahori
- Music: Maki Ishii
Home Media[]
The movie was released on VHS on October 24, 1990, and on DVD on August 25, 2001, both by Bandai Visual.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- This is the last movie to use Tsuburaya's style of opening credits.
- The film's director, Akio Jissoji, previously directed many Ultraman Series episodes, as well as a 1979 film compiling his episodes of Ultraman.
- Shusuke Kaneko and Kazunori Itō were planned to be the director and writer respectively for this film, but this never came to fruition.[1][2] Alongside Shinji Higuchi, they created the Heisei Gamera Trilogy, and Kaneko and Higuchi are two of few people who had ever created both Gamera and Godzilla films.
- The detectives are played by some of the main cast of Ultraman.
- Yasuhiko Saijo, who played Ippei Togawa in Ultra Q, makes a cameo.
- In Ichinotani's laboratory, photos of the original Ichinotani from Ultra Q and writer Tetsuo Kinjo are on the wall.
- Akio Jissoji's stuffed raccoon Chinabo appears as the TTV's mascot.
- Masami Horiuchi would later play portray a minor character with the same name as his character from this film in episode 4 of Ultraman Decker.
- To date, the movie has not been made available on TSUBURAYA IMAGINATION.
References[]
- ↑ じんのひろあきインタビュー」『前略、押井守様。』Hiroaki Jinno, Makoto Noda, 1998, Footwork,, p127-p128
- ↑ Haruhiko Ueshima, 1999,「注目の作家たち 金子修介」『<日本製映画>の読み方 1980-1999』Filmart, p70