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Urutora Q - Balloonga
episode 11 / Ultra Q - Balloonga
Japan 1966
produced by Tsuburaya Productions/TBS
directed by Samaji Nonagase
starring Kenji Sahara, Yasuhiko Saijo, Hiroko Sakurai, Yoshifumi Tajima, Hirayoshi Aono, Ikuro Takahashi, Motoyuki Tanaka, Haruo Suzuki, Keiko Ozawa, Ryusuke Nakae, Chieko Inoue, Hiroyuki Kiyono, Yoshio Katsube, Masaaki Tachibana, Naoya Kusakawa, Hideo Otsuka, Yoshie Kihira, Genya Nagai
written by Tetsuo Kinjo
TV-series Ultra Q
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Before his rocketship crashlands for having run out of fuel, her pilot
(Ikuro Takahashi) can still issue a warning about a balloon. Reporters
Yuriko (Hiroko Sakurai) and Jun (Kenji Sahara) check out the area where
the rocketship crashed, but sine she crashed into the sea, there's
actually rather little to see. However, then their fuel runs out,
and Yuriko and Jun make it back to base only just. When checking the
plane, mechanic Ippei (Yasuhiko Saijo) finds some strange lifeform
attached to her. They want to bring the lifeform to the bio center for
examination, but on their way there the car runs out of fuel, and then the
creature grows out of the box it's kept at, inflates and lifts the car
into the air until it grows so big it breaks the car open - and Ippei is
hit by the resulting debris and hospitalized. From now on the creature
floats over Tokyo, but since it feeds on energy, the power's shut off and
nobody's allowed to drive by car. Yuriko and Jun do some investigating and
learn about professor Naramaru, who has first witnessed and examined such
a creature 20 years ago - but was pretty much laughed at by his
colleagues. Yuriko and Jun manage to track him down though, and he
eventually tells them the only way to lure the creature, dubbed Balloonga
for its balloon-like behaviour, is to create a second sun per atomic
explosion in space, which will then guide it to the actual sun, where
energy is limitless ... Now one of the more fun episodes of the
series as it by and large lacks monster action, destruction and the like,
and given its silly premise it might actually take itself a little too
seriously, but then again a certain naive approach to science was always
one of the most charming points of the show at large, and at least in this
respect we're not disappointed. Not a highlight perhaps, but still some
fun.
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