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Urutora Q - Manmosu Furawa
episode 4 / Ultra Q - Mammoth Flower
Japan 1966
produced by
Tsuburaya Productions/TBS
directed by Koji Kajita
starring Kenji Sahara, Yasuhiko Saijo, Hiroko Sakurai, Ureo Egawa, Yoshifumi Tajima, Minoru Takada, Sachio Sakai, Sadako Amemiya, Mitsuo Tsuda, Yutaka Oka, Yutaka Nakayama, Junichiro Mukai, Daisuke Inoue, Haruya Sakamoto
written by Koji Kajita, Tetsuo Kinjo, special effects by Kaimai Eizo
TV-series
Ultra Q
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Giant roots grow out of the floor near Tokyo Harbour and, just like
good tentacles, they like to wrap themselves around humans to suck their
blood. Journalist Yuriko (Hiroko Sakurai) and her associaates Manjome (Kenji Sahara)
and Ippei (Yasuhiko Saijo) investigate and find out the epicenter of the
roots is the high rise of the highrise that houses their newspaper, which
is very busy with evacuating at the moment, and not a moment too soon, as
eventually a giant prehistoric flower grows right through it to blossom on
top of it. Almost everybody got out safe, except for Ippei and his
girlfriend Michiko (Sadako Amemiya), who have to be saved by the army, and
then it's Manjome's job (as a pilot) to spread some strong weedkiller over
the area to kill the giant plant with all its spores ... Not
one of the better episodes of the series. Now while the idea of a killer
plants with tentacle-roots is fun for sure, the story lacks narrative
tension. Apart from the scene where Ippei and Michiko have to be saved,
it's pretty much a straight walk from encountering a problem to finding a
solution to applying the solution, with little in terms of deviation.
Sure, the effects work still is decent, and the giant plant sure looks
fun, but the episode has little but that (and the nostalgia factor that
is) to go for it.
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