Recent content by MechaGolem

Hey everybody I was recently a guest on a special bonus episode of The Film Find​ podcast where I talked with host Adam Portrais​ about director Joseph Kahn's controversial new short that re-imagines the Power Rangers in a gritty, R-rated fan film that puts all other fan films to shame. Is this...

So here's some interesting and quite possible great news for U.S. tokusatsu fans brought to you by the fine folks at Hi no Tori Fansubs: Sources: http://www.asahi.com/culture/updat/0907/TKY201309060527.html & http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20130907-00000007-asahi-ent Thoughts? Feelings...

Amongst all the doom and gloom that the recent tokusatsu article in the NY Times seems to have caused amongst some fans, here's more bad news. After 17 years Ultramanland in Arao City in the Kumamoto Prefecture closed down this past Sunday as a result of declining attendance. Source...

In case you haven't seen, the front page of the current issue of the New York Times features cover stories on Obama and the Syria Crisis, the on-going war on drug, Gay Rights issues and.... Tokusatsu, it's history and, unfortunately, how it's becoming an endangered art form in Japan. The NY...

Here's a question for everybody whose more into Japanese celebrities then I am, but one that I am still nevertheless very curious about. Who would you say are the biggest Japanese celebrities who got their start on Super Sentai? This includes both actors and actress as well as folks who went on...

Not really... Here's Prism Ace: Here's Megaloman: Going off the face alone Prism Ace looks more like Toho's Greenman: Though there are some similarities to Tsuburaya's Mirrorman too: And with the red, blue and silver color scheme he's more like one of the recent Ultras such as Tiga...

I'd like to have a comprehensive discussion about the complete tokusatsu works of Keita Amemiya. While everyone seems to know Amemiya best for GARO and, for some reason Mechanical Violator Hakaider, he's done a lot besides that. Below is a complete list of his films and shows with synospsis for...

We're having a debate about categories and you're complaining about people not thinking outside the box. There is something strikingly funny about that.... the entire enterprise of categorization is about constructing boxes. I think you can take the analogy of singular artists and expanded it...

A few days ago I posted a lengthy comment in the HJU thread "Is Ninja Turtles: TNM considered a Toku show?" dealing with the question of what exactly Tokusatsu is. Unfortunately the internet appears to have eaten that post as it was never published much to my chagrin. Now having the free time to...