When vocalist Tim Jamison started the St. Louis punk group Ultraman in the mid ‘80s, he didn’t plan on sticking with the band for nearly four decades. But true to the Japanese pop-culture icon that ...
At its pulsing circular core, Ultraman is a generational story. Conceived by Eiji Tsuburaya, one of Godzilla’s co-creators and the founder of Tsuburaya Productions, the franchise centers on a gigantic ...
The revelation was shared at the 2024 Lightbox Expo as Shannon Tindle appeared with John Aoshima. The co-directors detailed the work that went into making Ultraman: Rising, and when asked about a ...
Erick Massoto is a Brazilian writer who's always loved film and TV and loves finding connections between them. That's why he supports double features, especially if they are of a modern film paired ...
‘Ultraman: Rising’ is a Netflix animated feature based on Tsuburaya’s ‘Ultraman’ franchise. The story finds baseball sensation Kenji “Ken” Sato as he moves back home to Japan to face the onslaught of ...
The Netflix animated feature, directed by Shannon Tindle and co-directed by John Aoshima, offers a new take on a classic Japanese series created in the 1960s. By Jordan Mintzer For millions of ...
“Ultraman” is one of the most iconic and popular characters in Japanese history, running since 1966 with countless reboots and sequels across different mediums. Though it hasn’t really broken out in ...
Like their close cousins in the kaiju subgenre, kyodai hero films and TV shows – with their giant, costumed defenders of humanity – tend to be over-the-top action extravaganzas whose flimsy stories ...