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Ryusei Ningen Zon 5
episode 5 / Zone Fighter - Attack King Ghidorah! / Zone Fighter - Shoot Down King Ghidorah!
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, Hideaki Ohara, Munemaru Koda (voice), Kiyoshi Kobayashi (voice)
written by Juro Shimamoto, Akira Ishikari, created by Tomoyuki Tanaka, music by Goh Misawa, special effects by Teruyoshi Nakano
TV-series Zone Fighter, King Ghidorah
review by Mike Haberfelner
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This time around, the Garoga want to conquer earth with the help of
three-headed dragon King Ghidora. However before they can do that, they
want to get rid of the Zone family, who has so far thwarted all their
plans for world domination. But no matter into how many ambushes the
Garoga lure Zone Fighter (Kazuya Aoyama), Zone Angel (Kazumi Kitahara) and
Zone Junior (Takeshi Sato), they're always beaten to a pulp by the heroes.
So the Garoga have King Ghidorah's arrival on earth clouded in smoke, as
Zone Fighter, in his giant state, needs the sun to recharge. Zone Fighter
still goes one-on-one with King Ghidorah, but the monster soon wins the
upper hand, and Zone Fighter runs out of battery and struggles to remain
on his feet let alone fight. This is when Zone Fighter's grandfather, Zone
Great (Shiro Amagusa) has an idea and releases a newly developed gas to
clear earth's atmosphere into the open which soon does away with the
smoke, which immediately improves Zone Fighter's chances in combat, then
he sends him some opal which Zone Fighter uses to lure King Ghidorah away
from earth ... After having had Godzilla
in the last episode,
it was only logical to introduce King
Ghidorah, one of Godzilla's
most frequent (and most impressive) opponents - but that said, not too
much is made of the monster here, for the most part it's just represented
by an immobile replica flying through the air (same goes for Zone Fighter
himself, actually), and in the rare instances when he's allowed to
actually fight, his heads just swing around a little aimlessly, thwarted
by bad puppetry. So in all a bit of a missed chance.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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