The Underground Super Express Goes West

Ultra Q, episode 10

Information

Airdate

March 5, 1966

Directed by

Toshihiro Iijima

Written by

Hiroyasu Yamaura
Kitao Senzoku

Special Effects Directed by

Tohru Matoba

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The Underground Super Express Goes West (地底超特急西へ, Chitei Chōtokkyū Nishi e) is the tenth episode of Ultra Q.

Plot[]

Yuriko and Ippei are passengers on the inaugural voyage of the Inazuma; a futuristic bullet train leaving New Tokyo Station for North Kyushu. Mistaking it for Yuriko's case, Ippei accidentally brings along the high-pressure container which houses Dr. Aikawa's artificial lifeform, M1.

The lifeform, which primarily exists in a jelly-like state, becomes active when carelessly exposed to a photographer's flashbulb. While stowed in the Inazuma's engine room, rapid cell division occurs, evolving M1 into a gorilla-like being. M1 frightens the crew and playfully toys with the equipment in the abandoned engine room, damaging the train's electronic brain. With the Inazuma speeding out of control, the conductor separates the passenger car from the engine, leaving M1 inside the engine room. However, a young stowaway named Itachi is also trapped with the panicky M1 in the engine car, now speeding toward destruction.

At the last terminal, the Inazuma's maiden voyage ends in fiery disaster; Itachi and M1, however, having hidden in a storage locker, are safely launched into orbit!

Cast[]

Jun Manjome (万城目淳, Manjōme Jun): Kenji Sahara (佐原健二, Sahara Kenji)
Yuriko Edogawa (江戸川由利子, Edogawa Yuriko): Hiroko Sakurai (桜井浩子, Sakurai Hiroko)
Ippei Togawa (戸川一平, Togawa Ippei): Yasuhiko Saijo (西條康彦, Saijō Yasuhiko)
Narrator (ナレーター, Nareta): Koji Ishizaka (石坂浩二, Ishizaka Kōji)

Guest Actors[]

Nishioka Chief (西岡主任, Nishioka Shunin): Susumu Ishikawa (石川進, Ishikawa Susumu)
Dr. Aikawa (相川教授, Aikawa Kyouju): Nobuo Tsukamoto (塚本信夫, Tsukamoto Nobuo)
Itachi (イタチ): Tetsuo Yamamura (山村哲夫, Yamamura Tetsuo)
Hechima (ヘチマ): Naoto Aoyagi (青柳直人, Aoyagi Naoto)
Koyama driver (小山運転士, Koyama Untenshi): Kouen Okumura (奥村公延, Okumura Koen)
Kawata reporter (川田記者, Kawata Kisha): Teruo Matsuyama (松山照夫, Matsuyama Teruo)
Shoe shine service'scustomer A (靴磨きの客A, Kutsumigaki no Kyaku Ei): Chikao Otsuka (大塚周夫, Otsuka CHikao)
Shoe shine service'scustomer B (靴磨きの客B, Kutsumigaki no Kyaku Bi): Setsuo Wakui (和久井節緒, Wakui Setsuo)（Credited by mistake for 我久井）
Crew A (乗務員A, Joumuin Ei): Sachiko Mouri (毛利幸子, Mouri Sachiko)
Crew B (乗務員B, Joumuin Bi): Hikaru Yugi (由木光, Yugi Hikaru)
Crew C (乗務員C, Joumuin Shi): Mari Saito (済藤真理, Saito Mari)
Crew D (乗務員D, Joumuin Di): Mitsuhiko Okada (岡田光広, Okada Mitsuhiro)
Inazuma train's guide (いなづま号・ガイド, Inazuma-go Gaido): Yoko Yano (矢野陽子, Yano Yoko)
Master (マスター, Masuta): Takamitsu Nagasawa (長沢隆光, Nagasawa Takamitsu)
Conductor (車掌, Shasho): Tetsuo Kinjo (金城哲夫, Kinjō Tetsuo)

Voice Actors[]

Announcement (アナウンス, Anaunsu), M1 (M1号, Emu Ichi-go): Masao Nakasone (中曽根雅夫, Nakasone Masao)

Suit Actors[]

M1 (M1号, Emu Ichi-go): Haruyoshi Nakamura (中村晴吉, Nakamura Haruyoshi)

Appearances[]

Kaiju[]

M1

Home Media[]

Ultra Q Volume 3 features episodes 9-12, and Total Natural Color Blu-ray Volume 3 features episodes 8-11.

Ultra Q Episodes
1. Defeat Gomess! \| 2. Goro and Goroh \| 3. The Gift From Space \| 4. Mammoth Flower \| 5. Peguila is Here! \| 6. Grow Up! Little Turtle \| 7. S.O.S. Mount Fuji \| 8. Terror of the Sweet Honey \| 9. Baron Spider \| 10. The Underground Super Express Goes West \| 11. Balloonga \| 12. I Saw a Bird \| 13. Garadama \| 14. Tokyo Ice Age \| 15. Kanegon's Cocoon \| 16. Garamon Strikes Back \| 17. The 1/8 Project \| 18. The Rainbow's Egg \| 19. Challenge from the Year 2020 \| 20. The Undersea Humanoid Ragon \| 21. Space Directive M774 \| 22. Metamorphosis \| 23. Fury of the South Sea \| 24. The Idol of Goga \| 25. The Devil Child \| 26. Blazing Glory \| 27. The Disappearance of Flight 206 \| 28. Open Up!