Karate-Robo Zaborgar

Karate-Robo Zaborgar
Directed byNoboru Iguchi
Screenplay byNoboru Iguchi
Based onDenjin Zaborger
by P Productions
Produced byShinichi Ikeda
Yoshinori Chiba
StarringItsuji Itao
CinematographyYasutaka Nagano
Edited byTsuyoshi Wada
Music byShunsuke Kikuchi
Production
companies
Distributed byNikkatsu
Release dates
  • January 28, 2011 (2011-01-28) (Rotterdam)
  • October 15, 2011 (2011-10-15) (Japan)
Running time
114 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Budget$3 million
Box office$162,288

Karate-Robo Zaborgar (電人ザボーガー, Denjin Zabōgā) is a 2011 Japanese film directed by Noboru Iguchi. The film is a remake of the 1974 show Denjin Zaborger.[1]

Plot

An evil criminal organisation called Sigma kidnap prominent business leaders to harvest their DNA and only Karate-Robo Zaborgar can save them.[2]

Production

While working on his television series The Ancient Dogoo Girl in 2009, director Noboru Iguchi said his producer approached him with news that the film adaptation rights for a number of tokusatsu had become available.[3] Iguchi found that the rights to the 1970s series Denjin Zaborger was available and suggested that he could make a remake of the series into a film.[3][4]

Iguchi said that compared to his previous feature film works, he had a larger budget and filming schedule to crate Karate-Robo Zaborgar. He said that the film was shot in 26 days, which was shorter than the average Japanese production, but much longer than his previous films The Machine Girl or RoboGeisha which were each shot in about 12 days. Iguchi said the budget for Karate-Robo Zaborgar was "about $3 million" as opposed to the few hundred thousand used for the earlier films.[3]

Cast

Release

Karate-Robo Zaboragar had its world premiere at the 2011 International Film Festival Rotterdam.[5]

The international versions of the film are shorter than the Japanese cut. Producer Yoshinori Chiba of Sushi Typhoon told Iguchi to cut the sex scenes or any overtly violent scenes. This was due to the film being sold to distributors in China, who would cut these scenes regardless which led to the production saving money by making one international edit of the film.[6]

Reception

John Anderson of Variety said the film aimed to be both cheesy and sublime, which he found it "mostly accomplishes" do the special effects work of Yoshihiro Nishimura and Tsuyoshi Kazuno and the "terrific editing" by Takeshi Wada. [7] It was later shown in New York at the New York Asian Film Festival in 2011.[4]

References

  1. ^ "SIFF 2011: KARATE-ROBO ZABORGAR REVIEW". Twitch Film. Archived from the original on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-05-22.
  2. ^ "IFFR 2011: KARATE-ROBO ZABORGAR REVIEW!". Twitch Film. Archived from the original on 28 September 2015. Retrieved 2011-02-14.
  3. ^ a b c Hartzheim 2011, p. 19.
  4. ^ a b Film at Lincoln Center.
  5. ^ IFFR.
  6. ^ Hartzheim 2011, p. 21.
  7. ^ Anderson 2011.

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