Sung Hai Song
Tokusatsu Is Not Inferior to Western Superheroes
Two traditions, different anxieties, different tools. Only one has held an audience for sixty years.
The argument arrives in the same shape every time. Someone sees a rubber suit, or a spark-gun explosion, or a stock henshin sequence used for the fortieth week running, and concludes that tokusatsu is what Western superhero cinema was before it grew up. Cheap. Childish. A stepping stone. It is a comfortable conclusion, and it […]
Throwback: Sacred Guardian Singa, the First Singaporean Hero at the Japan Local Hero Festival 2024
Looking back at November 2024, when Sacred Guardian Singa became the first Singaporean hero at the Japan Local Hero Festival.
Aydeel Djoeharie takes us down memory lane to November 2024, when Sacred Guardian Singa became the first Singaporean superhero ever invited to the Japan Local Hero Festival.