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Ryusei Ningen Zon 24
episode 24 / Zone Fighter - Defeat the Needle Shooting Terror-Beast Needlar
Japan 1973
produced by Kimihiko Eto, Shunji Takahasi, Yoshio Nishikawa, Tomoyuki Tanaka (executive) for Mannen-Sha, Toho/NTV (= Nippon Television Network)
directed by Ishiro Honda
starring Kazuya Aoyama, Kazumi Kitahara, Takashi Sato, Shoji Nakayama, Sachiko Kozuki, Shiro Amakusa, Hideaki Ohara, Munemaru Koda (voice), Kiyoshi Kobayashi (voice)
written by Yuji Amamiya, created by Susumu Takeuchi, music by Goh Misawa, special effects by Kichio Tabuchi
TV-series Zone Fighter
review by Mike Haberfelner
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On a hiking trip, friend of the Zone-family Takeru (Hideaki Ohara)
stumbles upon a corpse and also upon some weird lights that apparently
hypnotized the inhabitants of a nearby village. However, when he reports
this to the police, they find the villagers all perfectly fine and nobody
seems to remember being hypnotized. However, the Zone family immediately
suspect some Garoga meddling and thus Zone Fighter (Kazuya Aoyama) and
Zone Angel (Kazumi Kitahara) go investigate and find a mention of the
weird lights in the deceased man's journal. However, when driving back
home they are exposed to some hypnotic sound by the Garoga that makes them
fall asleep, and subsequently drive their car off a cliff to their certain
deaths. But of course, Zone Fighter and Zone Angel come out of this
completely unharmed and infiltrate a nearby Garoga operation where the
Garoga want to turn all villagers into cyborgs. Zone Fighter and Zone
Angel are found out, notice they can't turn into their superheroic selves
for ... reasons - but while the Garoga already prepare to turn them into
cyborgs, Zone Junior (Takashi Sato) saves the day. And of course, in the
finale Zone Fighter has to fight the explosive needle-shooting monster
Needlar and ultimately once again saves the day. The beginning
of this episode shows some for this show uncharacteristically eerie scenes
and a sure hand for atmosphere, and really the plotline of the Garoga
hypnotizing the villagers makes for a bit of a change in formula. But
unfortunately, the ending is just your typical same old same old, another
Zone Fighter vs giant monster fight that while feeling tagged on was
pretty much as standard as can be, even if it ends with an
uncharacteristically gory decapitation. So basically, a promising episode
... that just isn't too good in keeping its promise.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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