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Supaida-Man - Puro Resura Samuson no Namida
Spider-Man - Tears of Samson, the Professional Wrestler / episode 17
Japan 1978
produced by
Toru Hirayama, Susumu Yoshikawa for Toei
directed by Koichi Takemoto
starring Shinji Toudou, Mitsuo Ando, Izumi Oyama, Rika Miura, Yukie Kagawa
written by Shozo Uehara, based on the Marvel Comics-character Spider-Man created by Stan Lee (writer), Steve Ditko (artist)
TV-series
Spider-Man, Japanese Spider-Man
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Nakada has been a championship wrestler until an accident put a sudden
end to his career. Nowadays he tries to train his brother Samson to become
a champion, and while Samson certainly has the body of a wrestler, he
simply lacks the talent ... but he argues if Spider-Man (Shinji Todou)
could show him a trick or two, he would succeed. This for some reason is
overheard by the Iron Cross Army's Amazoness (Yukie Kagawa) in her human
disguise, and she tells Nakada and Samson to turn to Takuya to get in
touch with Spider-Man. Of course, Takuya in fact is Spider-Man, but
Amazoness doesn't know that yet, she only makes a wild (yet accurate)
guess to lure the Army's chief enemy out into the open. When he learns
about the story of Nakada and Samson, Takuya is positively moved, but he
is to smart to give his superhero-identity away, ao Amazoness abducts
Samson to turn him into a Machine Bem (~ robot monster) devoid of all
human feelings - so before long, Samson the Machine Bem runs over his
brother Nakada in a truck. This is when Spidey intervenes, fighting the
new Machine Bem mano-a-mano at first, then, when the Machine Bem has grown
to giant size, in his giant robot Marveller/Leopardon. Of course, Spidey
wins, but the deaths of Nakada and Samson are nothing short of tragic. Childish
fun - that's pretty much all there is to say about this one.
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