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Ryusei Ningen Zon 11
episode 11 / Zone Fighter - In a Hair's Breadth: The Roar of Godzilla!
Zone Fighter - Just in Time: The Roar of Godzilla!
Japan 1973
produced by Kimihiko Eto, Shunji Takahasi, Yoshio Nishikawa, Tomoyuki Tanaka (executive) for Mannen-Sha, Toho/NTV (= Nippon Television Network)
directed by Jun Fukuda
starring Kazuya Aoyama, Kazumi Kitahara, Takashi Sato, Shoji Nakayama, Sachiko Kozuki, Shiro Amakusa, Munemaru Koda (voice), Kiyoshi Kobayashi (voice)
written by Kazuhisa Hattori, created by Tomoyuki Tanaka, music by Goh Misawa, special effects by Teruyoshi Nakano
TV-series Zone Fighter, Godzilla, Gigan
review by Mike Haberfelner
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In his civilian job Hikaro a.k.a. Zone Fighter (Kazuya Aoyama) is a
race driver - and he's apparently so good at it that his company is giving
him their latest, best race car to test drive, much to the dismay of his
friend and colleague Sasaki, who thus helps Zone Fighter's chief enemy,
the evil aliens Garoga, to set up a trap for him. So for his test drive
unbeknownst to him he doesn't get into the supercar but instead of a
Garoga vehicle that the evil aliens remote control and that's inescapable.
And further more, Zone Fighter can't grow to giant size while inside for
whatever reason. And this car is then thrown into a scrap metal press.
Hikaru's siblings Zone Angel (Kazumi Kitahara) and Zone Junior (Takashi
Sato) come to his aid but soon realize they're out of their league here so
they call Godzilla. Godzilla promptly shows up, too, but the Garoga throw
their terror beast Gigan at him. Godzilla fights Gigan to a standstill
then cuts the power supply for the scrap metal press. Upon this, Zone
Fighter manages to escape his car and fight Gigan to the death. A
rather overly contrived story where nothing feels "real", even
within the realm of 1970s superhero TV: The death trap for Zone Fighter is
overly complicated and riddled with errors, Sasaki's character as jealous
and treacherous colleague is just flat, and the idea to have Godzilla as deus
ex machina suggests the writers have painted themselves into a corner.
All that results in some nostalgic fun at least, but not really all that
great television.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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