A down-and-out schoolteacher receives the calling to become the real life personification of an old television superhero, Zebraman.
Direction
Miike somehow makes zebra stripes emotionally resonant
Costume
The Zebraman suit: cheap, sweaty, perfect
Acting
Show Aikawa's deadpan dignity in spandex
Director
Takashi Miike
Show Aikawa
Shinichi Ichikawa / Zebraman
Kyoka Suzuki
Kana Asano
Atsuro Watabe
Oikawa
Yui Ichikawa
Midori Ichikawa
Koen Kondo
Segawa
Ren Osugi
Kuniharu Kuroda
Makiko Watanabe
Yukiyo Ichikawa
Kumiko Aso
Clerk
Ryo Iwamatsu
Kanda
Teruyoshi Uchimura
Ippongi
Akira Emoto
Kitahara the Crab Man
Yoji Tanaka
Man In Supermarket
Arata Furuta
Eggplant Vendor
Yuu Tokui
Pyromaniac
Daisuke Iijima
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The fake Zebraman TV show within the film was shot to look genuinely cheap, mimicking actual 1970s Japanese tokusatsu.
Miike made this during his most prolific period, between Ichi the Killer and Visitor Q—it's his stealth argument that kindness is punk too.
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