Ultraman Zearth is a movie produced by Tsuburaya Productions in 1996 and was released as a celebration of the Ultraman Series' 30th anniversary, as part of the Ultraman Wonderful World project.
Characters
Ultras
Kaiju
Cast
- Katsuto Asahi : Masaharu Sekiguchi
- Shinpei Ohkohchi : Takaaki Ishibashi
- Butsukichi Konakai : Noritake Kinashi
- Tohru Hoshimi : Yuka Takaoka
- Ganta Takemura : Hiromoto Okubo
- Ban Satsuma : Kohji Moritsugu
- Manabu Kazu : Ichirota Miyagawa
- Night Watchman: Susumu Kurobe
- Fisherman: Akiji Kobayashi
- Photographer: Masanari Nihei
- Reporter: Sandayu Dokumamushi
- Housewife: Hiroko Sakurai
- Master of Seidokaikan: Kazuyoshi Ishii
- Instructor of Seidokaikan: Nobuaki Kakuda
- Assistant Instructor: Andy Hug
- Yuki Hoshimi : Hiromi Sakimoto (Played as "崎元 大海")
Voice Actors
- Midori: Mariko Fukushima
- Akuma Ogami/Alien Benzene: Takeshi Kaga
Music
- Shuwatch! Ultraman Zearth
- Lyrics: Shinya Jinma
- Composition: James Shimoji
- Artist: Tunnels
Releases
A two disc release of Ultraman Zearth 1 & 2 is available on Blu-Ray.
Games
- Main article: Ultraman Zearth (video game)
A game adaptation of Ultraman Zearth was available on PlayStation.
Trivia
- The film's title originally had an additional "蒼き星永遠なれ (Aoki hoshi eien nare, roughly translated as "Eternal Blue Planet")" before it was removed from the final cut.
- A parody of the film is produced for the Comedy show Tonneruzu no Minasan no Okage deshita before the film's premiere.
- Actors/Actresses from previous Ultraman series made cameos in 2 movies:
- Arashi is a helicopter reporter (which is not too far from what he currently does in real life). In Ultraman Zearth, Hayata is a night watchman (who holds his flashlight up like a Beta Capsule), Fuji (the only woman who ever catches the Mydo plane taking off from a secret base exit, which happens to be a billboard), Ide (as a photographer), and Captain Muramatsu, as a fisherman.
- An Ultra Hero Series Ultraman, a larger Ultraman Taro figure, and a Sound Battler Ultraman Powered figure are shown at the beginning of the movie.
- One of the film's posters oddly depicts Gango, Jirahs, Woo, Pestar, Zaragas, Red King II and Garamon despite them not appearing.
References
- ^ Schilling, Mark (1997). The Encyclopedia of Japanese pop culture. Weatherhill. p. 280. ISBN 0-8348-0380-1.
- ^ Warner, Brad (2003). Hardcore Zen: punk rock, monster movies & the truth about reality. Wisdom Publications. p. 54. ISBN 0-86171-380-X.