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Ryusei Ningen Zon 20
episode 20 / Zone Fighter - Fierce Fight! Can You Hear Fighter's Song?
Japan 1973
produced by Kimihiko Eto, Shunji Takahasi, Yoshio Nishikawa, Tomoyuki Tanaka (executive) for Mannen-Sha, Toho/NTV (= Nippon Television Network)
directed by Masao Minowa
starring Kazuya Aoyama, Kazumi Kitahara, Takashi Sato, Shoji Nakayama, Sachiko Kozuki, Shiro Amakusa, Hideaki Ohara, Munemaru Koda (voice), Kiyoshi Kobayashi (voice)
written by Fumio Ishimori, created by Susumu Takeuchi, music by Goh Misawa, special effects by Teruyoshi Nakano
TV-series Zone Fighter
review by Mike Haberfelner
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When Takeru (Hideaki Ohara), friend of the Zone family, witnesses a
"friendly old man" trying to kidnap young Shinichi, he
interferes, so see the old man turn out to be a Garoga, and he has brought
others like him, too. And instead of saving Shinichi, Takeru becomes a
Garoga captive as well. Soon enough, the friendly old man also captures
other neighbourhood kids, to such an extent that the Zone family decides
to use Zone Junior (Takashi Sato) as bait to ultimately lead Zone Fighter
(Kazuya Aoyama) to the Garoga headquarters. But Zone Fighter loses the
Garoga when pursuing them and only catches up when Zone Junior and the
other children area already locked in one of this weeks terror beast's
heads, the two headed Goram. Now Zone Fighter, in his giant form, can't
use any weapons to fight Goram to not harm the children, and he can't even
beat Goram up, so he has to let Goram wear itself out beating him to a
pulp. He almost runs out of energy, but enter Zone Angel (Kazumi
Kitahara), who charges him again, and then Zone Fighter rips off the head
the kids are in and lets the children escape before taking care of Goram
for good. Mostly a pretty childish episode, but at least the
monster looks fun even if its very limited in its movements, and giving
Goran a handgun and a holster is almost a stroke of genius. So in all, not
exactly a rounded out episode, but at the same time one that's
unintentionally hilarious at points.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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