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More than 50 years ago, Eiji Tsuburaya's Ultraman capitalized on the success and popularity of Japan's tokusatsu style of storytelling, something that made Tsuburaya's other co-creation Godzilla world ...

Shinji Higuchi's fantastic new film "Shin Ultraman" elicits a sensation that other blockbusters, huge and popular blockbusters, have often neglected: In these worlds where larger-than-life, godlike ...

An attractive, original take on the Ultraman legend privileges a heavy-handed parenting lesson over the kind of monster mania fans expect from the franchise. Ultraman has one job: to defend the world ...

"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 ...

Tokusatsu and Kaiju, what better a combination? Shin Ultraman, part of the Shin Japan Heroes Universe Project, is the third film in a series that takes classic Japanese media and brings it to the ...

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 ...

The "Rise of" portion in Ultraman: The Rise of Ultraman's title suggests that this is an origin story, but it's still surprising how long it takes for things to get going. The inciting incident of ...