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Ryusei Ningen Zon 9
episode 9 / Zone Fighter - Find the Secret of the Red Spider!
Zone Fighter - Search for the Secret of the Red Spider!
Japan 1973
produced by Kimihiko Eto, Shunji Takahasi, Yoshio Nishikawa, Tomoyuki Tanaka (executive) for Mannen-Sha, Toho/NTV (= Nippon Television Network)
directed by Kengo Furusawa
starring Kazuya Aoyama, Kazumi Kitahara, Takashi Sato, Shoji Nakayama, Sachiko Kozuki, Shiro Amakusa, Munemaru Koda (voice), Kiyoshi Kobayashi (voice)
written by Juro Shimamoto, created by Tomoyuki Tanaka, music by Goh Misawa, special effects by Teruyoshi Nakano
TV-series Zone Fighter
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Hikaru a.k.a. Zone Fighter (Kazuya Aoyama) witnesses the Garoga up to
no good again but can chase them away just before they can release a red
spider onto a truck delivering two lions. Later, the Zone family (Aoyama,
Kazumi Kitahara, Takashi Sato, Shoji Nakayama, Sachiko Kozuki) stumbles
upon the red spider again, and this time it bites a gorilla that goes
wild, then grows to giant size. And while the whole family is attacked by
the Garoga, Papa Zone (Nakayama) still manages to shoot down the monster
gorilla. Then the spider grows to giant size and manages to capture Zone
Fighter, who has also grown to giant size of course, in its web. But enter
Zone Angel (Kitahara) and Zone Junior (Sato), who free Zone Fighter
shooting some ray from their heads, then recharge his batteries the same
way, and ultimately Zone Fighter defeats and blows up the spider. It's
two monsters for the price of one in that one, even though the giant
gorilla is somewhat under-used - great monster suit though. The spider's
monster suit is rather hilarious though, as it looks nothing like a spider
and is somewhat inspired by bumble-bees - and is almost cute in a surreal
way. So in all, the episode's a hoot, if neither terribly good nor
terribly original.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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