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How Tokusatsu Launches Japanese Acting Careers
For a great many of Japan’s biggest names, the suit was the training.
Tokusatsu series, particularly Kamen Rider, Super Sentai and Ultraman, have long functioned as more than children’s entertainment in Japan. For decades they have served as a practical training ground and a high visibility platform that has propelled tokusatsu actors into mainstream success. The combination of rigorous physical demands, sustained screen time and cultural reach creates […]
Godzilla and Ultraman: Two Sides of Tsuburaya's Japan
Godzilla said remember what happened. Ultraman said imagine what comes next. The same man made both.
Eiji Tsuburaya was purged for wartime propaganda in 1948. What he built next, Godzilla in 1954 and Ultraman in 1966, maps postwar Japan going from grief to hope.