Japanese Special Effects Cinema: Godfathers of Tokusatsu - Vol. 1
All the films and television shows covered in the book Japanese Special Effects Cinema: Godfathers of Tokusatsu Vol. 1 (2022).
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- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsVictor AndréBleuette BernonA group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.
- DirectorEdwin S. PorterStarsGilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' AndersonA.C. AbadieGeorge BarnesA group of bandits stage a brazen train hold-up, only to find a determined posse hot on their heels.
- DirectorShôzô MakinoStarsMatsunosuke OnoeSuminojo IchikawaKijaku ÔtaniThe story of Jiraiya, a legendary ninja with great powers who set off on a adventure.
- DirectorHarry O. HoytStarsWallace BeeryBessie LoveLloyd HughesThe first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
- DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsAleksandr AntonovVladimir BarskiyGrigoriy AleksandrovIn the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.
- DirectorTeinosuke KinugasaStarsMasuo InoueAyako IijimaYoshie NakagawaA man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.
- DirectorFritz LangStarsBrigitte HelmAlfred AbelGustav FröhlichIn a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
- DirectorTeinosuke KinugasaStarsAkiko ChihayaJunosuke BandôYukiko OgawaAfter falling in love with a courtesan, Rikiya is blinded by ash during a fight in a brothel. Believing the blindness permanent and his opponent dead, Rikiya goes back home to his sister. Okiku, desperate to protect her brother who thinks himself a murderer, wants to sacrifice herself for him and become a prostitute to pay for Rikiya's treatment.
- DirectorTeinosuke KinugasaStarsKazuo HasegawaRyûnosuke TsukigataAkiko ChihayaIn the age of priests and warriors which the film denounces, a woman revolts after she is sold as a prostitute.
- DirectorMerian C. CooperErnest B. SchoedsackStarsFay WrayRobert ArmstrongBruce CabotA film crew goes to a tropical island for a location shoot, where they capture a colossal ape who takes a shine to their blonde starlet, and bring him back to New York City.
- DirectorTorajirô SaitôStarsYasuko KoizumiIsamu YamaguchiKotarô SekiguchiThe character "Santa" is a vagabond whose main source of income is locating lost coins on the streets of Tokyo. He is dating the pretty girl Omitsu, but her father Seizo does not consider him suitable for becoming his son-in-law. Seizo breaks-up their relationship and finds a new, wealthy boyfriend for Omitsu. Santa figures that he needs money to regain his girlfriend, and starts desperately seeking for a job. But nobody is willing to hire him. Noticing that the foreign-import film "King Kong" is a box office hit, Santa offers to dress up as King to promote a movie theater that is playing this film. He is hired on a try-out basis. Santa starts regularly appearing as King Kong in theaters, and goes on staged rampages against miniature buildings. During one of his performances, he notices Omitsu with her new boyfriend. Blinded by rage, Santa goes on a real rampage and chases after the man, both inside and outside the theatre. Santa beats up the man and leaves his unconscious body on the streets. But the audience thinks that his rampage was part of the performance and they are enthusiastic about it. He gets offered a higher salary for repeat performances, and he now has enough money to gain Seizo's approval and to start dating Omitsu again.
- DirectorYoshirô EdamasaStarsHidemichi IshikawaKazuyo KojimaTankai SoganoyaThe plot focuses on a giant Buddha statue (known in Japan as a "Daibutsu") 33 meters in height. It comes to life and tours the country, mainly seeing tourist sights,
- DirectorEiji TsuburayaStarsChûzô Aochi
- DirectorArnold FanckMansaku ItamiStarsSessue HayakawaIsamu KosugiSetsuko HaraTeruo is an adopted son of an old samurai family that returns to Japan after living in Germany and is expected to marry Mitsuko. But he's struggling to readjust to Japan and intends to marry an Aryan woman.
- DirectorHisatora KumagaiStarsChôjûrô KawarasakiKan'emon NakamuraShizue YamagishiJidai-geki surprisingly critical of bushido codes and practice of seppuku (aka hara-kiri). Yaichiemon Abe, denied permission to commit ritual suicide with more than a dozen vassals to Lord Hosokawa, commits suicide anyway, which in turn brings ruin upon his survivors, who are punished for misdeed.
- DirectorSôya KumagaiStarsEizaburô MatsumotoFuminori ÔhashiReizaburo IchikawaIn part one of this silent two-part film, an ape nicknamed King Kong by its master kidnaps the daughter of a wealthy man as part of a revenge plot by one of his lackeys. The story concludes in King Kong Appears in Edo: The Episode of Gold (1938).
- DirectorSôya KumagaiStarsEizaburô MatsumotoFuminori ÔhashiReizaburo IchikawaIn part two of this silent two-part film, an ape nicknamed King Kong by its master has kidnapped the daughter of a wealthy man as part of a revenge plot by one of his lackeys. The conclusion of the story from The King Kong That Appeared in Edo (1938).
- DirectorTaisuke AokiStarsRoko Adachi
- DirectorSotoji KimuraStarsIchirô ChibaSusumu FujitaKaku Hamada
- DirectorYutaka AbeStarsSusumu FujitaTaizô FukamiKatsuhiko Haida
- DirectorMikio NaruseStarsIsuzu YamadaWang YangAiko Satomi
- DirectorKajirô YamamotoStarsDenjirô ÔkôchiYatarô KurokawaSetsuko HaraWhen a boy who is in the navy college returns home for vacation he meets his young cousin who also wants to join in order to become a pilot. However, the younger man's mother is antagonistic knowing the folly of war. When the younger man recruits his cousin to speak to the mother the enlisted man is successful and the mother relents. The younger cousin is soon in the navy and training to become a pilot. He graduates too, but one night loses his friend yet has no time to reflect on the event as japan draws nearer to war with the West. The pilot and his fellow pilots are told to embark on a mission, but initially not told their purpose or destination. Only later it is revealed that the destination is Hawaii, USA. Pearl Habour looms.
- DirectorMasahiro MakinoStarsEnnosuke IchikawaSeizaburô KawazuSetsuko HaraTwo British brothers who are making money for their homeland are meeting buyers for opium in China. There is a police force to counter the dealers, but is not only ineffectual, but also corrupt and dealing in narcotics itself. Confronting the situation the government assigns an incognito bureaucrat to the issue. He confronts and arrests the police, but the bulk of the drugs is with the Britons.
- DirectorKunio WatanabeStarsMinoru TakadaSetsuko HaraYuriko HanabusaA local family' house also serves as a gathering place for air force cadets. The family's boy is weak and often unhealthy. The boy wants to become a pilot as well given how he is exposed to the cadets every week. He tries to become stronger and eligible. The boy and the trainees inspire one another.
- DirectorKajirô YamamotoStarsSusumu FujitaMinoru TakadaDenjirô ÔkôchiBiographical movie about Colonel Kato, an officer serving with the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force in Southeast Asia, he was highly respected by his pilots for his fairness and excellent flying ability.
- DirectorKajirô YamamotoStarsDenjirô ÔkôchiSusumu FujitaKatsuhiko HaidaWartime film dealing with a Japanese torpedo bomber squadron at war. The film opens with the Battle of Midway, The enemy carriers and ships are sunk with the IJN suffering minimal losses. However, the enemy has yet to surrender. Three IJN fliers Mikami (Susumu Fujita), Kawakami (Masayuki Mori), and Murakami (Akitake Kono) are good friends, and they are all renowned for their torpedo techniques. Mikami is posted as a staff officer at a base on an island in the Pacific. The base gets attacked by Allied Aircraft but the Zeros always fight back. One Air-raid has P-38s shooting down natives and a U.S. Pilot shot down. The Pilot is extremely disrespectful and the fliers realize how the Americans "really are". Kawakami and Murakami later join him as the base squadron is reinforced. An enemy task is spotted in the Philippine Sea. The enemy task force approaches the island and all three attack the fleet, killing themselves in the process. The Carrier Squad destroys the Main Task Force and the Land Squad attacks the Final Task Force. The fleet is sunk and the men have done their duty well. Good scenes of Nakajima Jill (Tenzan) torpedo bombers, and a scene involving a captured American flyer, played by Osman Yusuf (Mothra, King Kong vs. Godzilla, King Kong Escapes). The film takes place during the Battle of the Philippine Sea. In the Battle, The Japanese lost Taiho, Shokaku, and Hiyo. The Film shows Yorktown and Wasp-Class Carriers being sunk. This shows that the FIlm is blatant Propaganda. It also shows really hard how the film wants you to hate Americans.
- DirectorKiyoshi SaekiStarsSetsuko HaraHideko TakamineHisako YamaneThe story of an airport and its air-traffic control crew in a remote northern-Japanese town. Three of the air-traffic controllers are female; one of them (Setsuko Hara) works alongside the sister of her late fiance who was killed in the war.
- DirectorMikio NaruseStarsSusumu FujitaNobuo NakamuraHaruko SugimuraRepatriated soldier becomes populist politician in the Japanese Happiness Party.
- DirectorKiyohiko UshiharaStarsKeiju KobayashiTeruko AkatsukiKatsuko WakasugiWhen a young woman is named as the prime suspect in a murder, her girlfriend and her girlfriend's boyfriend set out to prove her innocence. Their investigation leads them to an isolated, creepy house in the middle of nowhere, where sinister goings-on abound.
- DirectorNobuo NakagawaStarsKen'ichi EnomotoYukie DaigoKiyoko HanashimaTobisuke, puppeteer in Kyôtô, saves O-fuku's life. Wounded in the head, it can now count to three. O-fuku invited him to meet her mother so she can heals him with a golden fruit. But O-fuku and Tobisuke had to cross the valley of death filled with fantastic creatures, will they survive?
- DirectorNobuo AdachiStarsChizuru KitagawaTakiko MizunoeDaijirô NatsukawaJewel thieves become interested in an invisibility formula invented by Professor Nakazato and want to use his invention to acquire a diamond necklace called the "Tears of Amour"..
- DirectorNobuo AdachiStarsJôji OkaSumiko HidakaRyôsuke KagawaA war veteran turns into an ape like beast every time he drinks alcohol
- DirectorIshirô HondaStarsHajime IzuYôko FujitaTakashi ShimuraThe conflict of Ishiro Honda's second narrative feature lies at the crossroads of science, faith, and economic prosperity. When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one end, they must contend with the local villagers who balk at the prospect of relocation; on the other, they face the ambitions of the headstrong lumber baron, whose actions will only further destabilize the land. Their pleas for reason ignored, the scientists can do little but observe as nature runs its inevitable course. With this film, Honda not only keyed into the theme of man's subservience to his environment which would resonate throughout his career, but also ignited his working relationship with one of Japan's defining cinematic craftsmen, Eiji Tsuburaya.
- DirectorTadashi ImaiStarsKyôko KagawaSusumu FujitaKeiko TsushimaHigh school girls, impressed to provide nursing care for the soldiers on Okinawa, find themselves on the front line during fierce onslaughts by American forces and are left to fend for themselves when the Japanese army dissolves.
- DirectorTakeo MurataStarsKyôko AoyamaDaisuke InoueTakeshi UedaA young couple, Osuke and Kyoko, go on a bike hike on Sunday and have fun playing with moving green trees, airplanes, swings, flying trains and high-speed airliners at the amusement park.
- DirectorYutaka AbeStarsTôru AbeMinoru AritaHiroshi Ayukawa
- DirectorEugène LouriéStarsPaul HubschmidPaula RaymondCecil KellawayA ferocious dinosaur awakened by an Arctic atomic test terrorizes the North Atlantic and, ultimately, New York City.
- DirectorIshirô HondaStarsDenjirô ÔkôchiHiroshi Nihon'yanagiMasao ShimizuJapanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes the attack on Pearl Harbor, but overruled, leads his forces to the best of his ability.
- DirectorIshirô HondaStarsRyô IkebeMariko OkadaRentarô MikuniA squadron of Japanese fighter pilots at a lonely Rabaul airbase realises that they are never going to win the war when they understand that Japanese military tactics have little regard for life. Seeking the companionship of any woman who will have them, they spend their days indulging in every fantasy in order to escape the overwhelming fear of death looming just over the horizon.
- DirectorIshirô HondaStarsTakashi ShimuraAkihiko HirataAkira TakaradaAfter a dinosaur-like beast - awoken from undersea hibernation by atom bomb testing - ravages Tokyo, a scientist must decide if his similarly dangerous weapon should be used to destroy it.
- DirectorMotoyoshi OdaStarsSeizaburô KawazuMiki SanjôMinoru TakadaA car strikes an unseen object. Blood spreads from an invisible source, which becomes visible as the bleeding man dies. He carries with him a suicide note dedicated to his only friend, who is also an invisible man. An eager young reporter tracks down Takemitsu Nanjo, a war veteran who makes his living visibly, painting his face like a clown's and carrying advertising signs. His favorite neighbor is a little blind girl whose mother is running afoul of local gangsters. The gangsters have been terrorizing the city as "the invisible gang," wrapping themselves up in scarves and trenchcoats so as to be visible to their victims, even though they are supposed to be invisible underneath. Once they discover Nanjo, who is defending his only friends, they beat him and leave him for dead.
- DirectorShûe MatsubayashiStarsEiji OkadaIsao KimuraKeiko Tsushima
- DirectorMotoyoshi OdaIshirô HondaStarsHiroshi KoizumiSetsuko WakayamaMinoru ChiakiScout pilots for a fishing company are startled to discover a second Godzilla, whose battle with rival monster Anguirus threatens to destroy Osaka.
- DirectorIshirô HondaStarsAkira TakaradaAkemi NegishiMomoko KôchiA yeti terrorizes people on top of Mount Fuji.
- DirectorKôji ShimaStarsKeizô KawasakiToyomi KaritaBin YagisawaUFOs are seen around Tokyo. Because they look like giant starfish the aliens cannot approach us without creating panic. Hence one of them sacrifices itself and takes the form of a popular female singer. It/she warns mankind that a meteor will crash on Earth. While the approaching meteor causes hotter and hotter weather, mankind runs and builds a last-chance anti-meteor weapon.
- DirectorShirô ToyodaStarsRyô IkebeShirley YamaguchiKaoru YachigusaLavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form.
- DirectorIshirô HondaStarsKenji SaharaYumi ShirakawaAkihiko HirataA mining engineer investigates the deaths of his colleagues, discovering prehistoric nymphs and a creature capable of flying - and wrecking havoc - at supersonic speeds.
- DirectorYves CiampiStarsKeiko KishiDanielle DarrieuxJean MaraisPierre Marsac, a French engineer working for the Nagasaki shipbuilding yards, has fallen in love both with Japan and a charming Japanese girl named Noriko. But Françoise Fabre, a French journalist and Pierre's former lover, contacts him while visiting the Land of the Rising Sun. They meet again, find out their love might not be dead. Meanwhile, Pierre gradually becomes estranged from sweet, humble Noriko. One day, a typhoon strikes Nagasaki...
- DirectorKôzô SaekiStarsAkira TakaradaKiiton MasudaHanshirô IwaiMusical-comedy about nine soldiers deserted on an island in South Pacific.
- DirectorKunio WatanabeStarsKanjûrô ArashiKusuo AbeMinoru TakadaMeiji Tenno portrayed the ramp up to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also showed the era from the story of a farm family in rural Japan who sent their son off to war. As such, it could be considered an anti-war movie, showing how, while war is devised by governments, the people do not really understand what war is, and it's combatants often do not know what they are fighting for.
- DirectorHideo SekigawaStarsEiji OkadaJun UsamiTakashi Kanda
- DirectorHideo SekigawaStarsEiji OkadaJun UsamiTakashi KandaA man with many disguises uses robotic beetles, man-made monsters and other devices to try and steal atomic power.
- DirectorTeruo IshiiStarsKen UtsuiJunko IkeuchiMinoru TakadaThe 1st film in the Super Giant movie series, in which the title hero saves the world from foreign terrorsts threatening Japan with a nuclear attack (Part 1 of 2)
- DirectorTeruo IshiiStarsKen UtsuiJunko IkeuchiMinoru TakadaSuper Giant (Starman in USA films) continues his battle against the foreign terrorists from Merapolia who are trying to destroy Earth with nuclear weapons. They retaliate by framing him for murder among his allies.
- DirectorMitsuo MurayamaStarsYoshirô KitaharaRyûji ShinagawaJunko KanôA ruthless serial killer with a peculiar method of stalking and killing his victims comes face to face with a police officer turned invisible by a scientific experiment. Who will emerge triumphant?
- DirectorKoreyoshi AkasakaTeruo IshiiAkira MitsuwaStarsKen UtsuiMinako YamadaMasao TakamatsuThe 3rd Super Giant film, in which he saves Earth from the threat of the reptile-like Kapia Aliens. (Part 1 of 2)
- DirectorTeruo IshiiStarsKen UtsuiMinako YamadaJunko IkeuchiThe 4th Super Giant film, in which he continues his fight against the Kapia Aliens (Part 2 of 2)
- DirectorTeruo IshiiStarsKen UtsuiUtako MitsuyaHiroshi HayashiThe 5th Super Giant film, in which he seeks to save hostages from a nazi-like group operating from a satellite in space. (Part 1 of 2)
- DirectorIshirô HondaStarsKenji SaharaYumi ShirakawaMomoko KôchiShortly after a giant robot destroys a village, aliens from outer space arrive offering friendship. Will the people of Earth tie these two events together?
- CreatorKôhan KawauchiStarsKôichi ÔseMike DanningJapan's first superhero TV show, in which a caped/masked avenger fights assorted evil in modern-day Tokyo.
- DirectorTeruo IshiiStarsKen UtsuiUtako MitsuyaHiroshi HayashiThe 6th Super Giant film, in which he continues his battle against the nazi-like satellite group. (Part 2 of 2)
- DirectorAkira MiwaStarsKen UtsuiChisako HaraAkira NakamuraThe 7th Super Giant film, in which he fights a brain-like alien creature, created by a mad scientist with the help of an alien army.
- DirectorIshirô HondaStarsYumi ShirakawaKenji SaharaAkihiko HirataWhen a narcotics deal goes sour and a suspect disappears, leaving only his clothes, Tokyo police question his wife and stake out the nightclub where she works. His disappearance stumps the police - until a young scientist appears who claims that H-Bomb tests in the Pacific, evidenced by a "ghost ship" that has turned up in the harbor, have created radioactive creatures - "H-Men" - who ooze like slime and dissolve anyone they touch.
- DirectorKunio WatanabeStarsKazuo HasegawaTakashi ShimuraShintarô KatsuLegendary Buddhist monk Nichiren (Kazuo Hasegawa) returns from his studies to lead Japan out of moral crisis and prepare to fight the Mongol invaders during the 1200's by creating a new form of Buddhism. He runs afoul of the existing Buddhist sects and their government supporters and is persecuted. Can Nichiren persevere before the Mongol fleet reaches Japanese shores?
- DirectorIshirô HondaMotoyoshi OdaStarsKôzô NomuraAyumi SonodaKoreya SendaOriginal Japanese version. Research in the Tohoku region comes across a monster known to the locals as the mountain god Baradagi.
- DirectorNagayoshi AkasakaStarsKen UtsuiReiko SetoMinoru AsukaThe 8th Super Giant film, in which he copes with a disfigured mad scientist, who turns his own daughter into an evil witch.
- DirectorKajirô YamamotoStarsNorihei MikiFukutarô IchikawaNobuo ChibaThe mythical adventures of the legendary Chinese trickster Monkey, who must outwit a variety of wily demons who stand in the way of him and his fellow Buddhist travelers. Though portrayed as a literal, if rather anthropomorphized, monkey in the original legends, this film substitutes the spindly comic actor Norihei Miki, sans makeup.
- DirectorNagayoshi AkasakaStarsKen UtsuiTerumi HoshiShinsuke MikimotoThe 9th and final Super Giant film, in which he fights a group plotting to assassinate a Middle-Eastern prince for his country's treasure.
- DirectorEijirô WakabayashiStarsTatsuo UmemiyaHiroko MineTakashi KandaWhen an alien force tries to invade Earth to steal a powerful new rocket fuel, a mysterious hero intervenes.
- CreatorKôhan KawauchiStarsSusumu WajimaShin'ichi ChibaRikiya IwakiYoung detective Kotarô Ran, able to change into seven different personalities (including the masked avenger, Spectrum Mask) fights assorted evil.
- DirectorShûe MatsubayashiStarsRyô IkebeTatsuya MihashiAkihiko HirataA story set in the time of WWII about one of the most famous Japansese submarines fighting through hardships to achieve its final goal
- DirectorTsuneo KobayashiStarsKen TakakuraKenji ImaiNaoko KuboPassengers on an airliner in flight are startled to discover that a killer, who is fleeing from the police after having murdered three people, has managed to come on board with a gun and is holding everyone hostage, threatening to kill anyone who doesn't obey him. The plane's crew must come up with a way to take him down before he starts murdering passengers.
- DirectorHiroshi InagakiStarsToshirô MifuneYôko TsukasaAkihiko HirataA prince, framed for murder and starved for affection from his father, is sent on a quest.
- DirectorIshirô HondaStarsRyô IkebeKyôko AnzaiMinoru TakadaThe nations of the Earth unite in a common cause to fight off an invader from outer space.
- CreatorMitsuteru YokoyamaStarsEmiko AzumaYôichirô MikawaMasayuki NaitoA loose adaptation of the first few volumes of the then ongoing Tetsujin 28 manga, the plot involves boy detective Shotaro Kaneda ending up in the control of a 2 meter World War II era robot "Tetsujin 28-go" and with help from the Japanese Self Defense Force and Shikishima Heavy Industries, he must stop the terror group "QX" (PX in the original manga) from using robots to terrorize Japan.
- DirectorMitsuo HirotsuStarsYutaka NakamuraChitose MakiRyûzô ShimadaAn Invisible Demon invades a castle where a group of people are spending the night there.
- DirectorJun FukudaStarsKôji TsurutaYumi ShirakawaSeizaburô KawazuMen are being murdered by a psycho called "The Telegian," who uses a matter-transmitting device to locate his victims.
- DirectorShûe MatsubayashiHugo GrimaldiStarsYôsuke NatsukiToshirô MifuneKôji TsurutaLt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in 1941 and is welcomed with pride in his hometown on his return. As Japan racks up victory after victory in the Pacific War, Kitami is caught up in the emotion of the time and fights courageously for the standard of Japanese honor. But his assuredness of his government's righteousness is shaken after the Japanese navy is defeated in the debacle of Midway.
- DirectorTokuzô TanakaStarsKazuo HasegawaRaizô IchikawaShintarô KatsuA team of samurai warriors team up to defeat a shape-changing, supernatural creature.
- StarsShin'ichi Chiba
- DirectorShigeaki HidakaWilliam RossStarsTatsuo UmemiyaYoshiko MitaYayoi FurusatoUSA and the communist countries start a war, later Japan becomes a tragic victim. A plot similar to "the Last War" by Toho.
- DirectorIshirô HondaStarsTatsuya MihashiKaoru YachigusaYoshio TsuchiyaA librarian is subject to a scientific experiment which goes wrong and transforms him into 'The Human Vapour'. He uses his new ability to rob banks to fund the career of his girlfriend, a beautiful dancer. The Human Vapour is ruthless in his quest for money and kills anyone who stands in his way, especially police. He soon becomes Tokyo's most wanted criminal. Can he be stopped before he kills again?
- DirectorHiroshi InagakiStarsToshirô MifuneKyôko KagawaYuriko HoshiMohei is a wandering swordsman. He arrives in the city of Osaka, where the Toyotomi clan accepts him and comes to depend upon his courage and his battlefield skills. Those skills are sorely tested when Osaka Castle is besieged by the army of the opposing Tokugawa clan.
- DirectorKôji OhtaStarsShin'ichi ChibaRyûko MinakamiMitsue KomiyaClumsy invaders from Neptune are thwarted by hero Space Chief and a nondescript group of microshort-wearing Japanese kids.
- DirectorIshirô HondaStarsFurankî SakaiHiroshi KoizumiKyôko KagawaAn expedition to Infant Island uncovers a native tribe and twin tiny fairy priestesses of a mythical deity, who sets out to rescue the pair after they are kidnapped by a greedy businessman.