Ultra Q The Movie: Legend of the Stars (ウルトラQ ザ・ムービー 星の伝説 Urutora Q Za Mūbī: Hoshi no Densetsu) is a tokusatsu Kaiju movie produced by Tsuburaya Productions in 1990.
Contents
Enemies
Wadatuzin
An alien that came to Earth in ancient times.
Nagira
A monster telepathically linked with Wadatuzin. Is 50 meters tall and weighs 31,000 tons. His subtitle is Ancient God Beast (古代神獣 Kodai Shin-Jū).
Staff
- Director - Akio Jissoji
- Screenplay - Mamoru Sasaki
- Photography - Masao Nakahori
- Music - Maki Ishii
Cast
Home Video Releases
The movie is released in VHS on October 24, 1990, and a DVD in August 25, 2001, by Bandai Visual. As of to date, the movie has yet to be released on Blu-Ray.
Trivia
- This marks the first since 1984 where Tsuburaya made a movie and giant monsters appeared.
- This is the last Tsuburaya movie to contain the Tsuburaya Opening.
- This is also Akkio Jisouji first flim he directed for Tsuburaya since his own 1979's Ultraman.
- Shusuke Kaneko and Kazunori Itō were the original staffs of this film, but the members were later changed while Shinji Higuchi was included.[1][2] These members later gathered for Heisei Gamera Trilogy, and Kaneko and Higuchi are two of few who had ever created both Gamera and Godzilla films.
References
- ↑ じんのひろあきインタビュー」『前略、押井守様。』Hiroaki Jinno, Makoto Noda, 1998, Footwork,, p127-p128
- ↑ Haruhiko Ueshima, 1999,「注目の作家たち 金子修介」『<日本製映画>の読み方 1980-1999』Filmart, p70
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