Ultraman's daddy made a submarine show so bonkers, Mystery Science Theater 3000 had to intervene.
The organization Mighty Jack is formed to combat the criminal syndicate known as "Q", and are given a large array of advanced weapons, chief among them being a high-tech submarine. Harold Hatari is abducted by Q, and Mighty Jack is dispatched to rescue him. Hatari is interrogated and threatened with blinding lights, but the Mighty Jack crew rescue him in the nick of time. Later, Q is discovered to be using "hot ice" (water that remains solid at room temperature) to create weapons and a secret ocean base disguised as an iceberg (though it's not precisely clear how hot ice could be a major world threat). Q then attempts to take over the Mighty Jack sub.
Practical Effects
Miniature submarine sequences that honestly slap for 1987 TV.
Direction
Kazuho Mitsuta's frantic pacing from two unrelated episodes welded together.
Director
Kazuho Mitsuta
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 'movie' is actually two unrelated episodes of a failed 1968 Tsuburaya Productions TV series haphazardly edited together for VHS release.
Eiji Tsuburaya created this after Ultraman, desperate to replicate that success with adult spy-fi—it lasted 26 episodes and vanished until MST3K resurrected it as a punchline.
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