The Japanese government sets up a special task force to fight the giant creatures suddenly appearing across the country. Soon, the squad unexpectedly meets a giant silver humanoid who starts appearing every time a space monster attacks!
Practical Effects
CGI deliberately mimics rubber suit physics—beautifully wrong
Direction
Higuchi's cramped angles make giants feel genuinely massive
Production
Every government office looks like 1974 and 2074 simultaneously
Director
Shinji Higuchi
Takumi Saitoh
Shinji Kaminaga
Masami Nagasawa
Hiroko Asami
Hidetoshi Nishijima
Kimio Tamura
Daiki Arioka
Akihisa Taki
Akari Hayami
Yumi Funaberi
Tetsushi Tanaka
Tatsuhiko Munakata
Koji Yamamoto
Mefilas
Ryo Iwamatsu
Hajime Komuro
Kyūsaku Shimada
Taishi Okuma
Toru Masuoka
Kunihiko Kariba
Keishi Nagatsuka
Hayasaka
Hajime Yamazaki
Seiichi Nakanishi
Soko Wada
Kagami
Yutaka Takenouchi
Government Personnel
Issey Takahashi
Ultraman (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The SSSP office set recreates the original 1966 series down to the ashtrays—Higuchi and Anno are obsessive Ultraman otaku who finally got the budget.
This completes Anno's 'Shin' trilogy after Evangelion and Godzilla, using tokusatsu to process post-Fukushima institutional failure—giant heroes can't save broken systems, only participate in them.
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