Ultraman (1979 film)

Ultraman
Theatrical poster
Directed by	Akio Jissoji[1]
Produced by	Noboru Tsuburaya
Written by	Mamoru Sasaki
Starring	Susumu Kurobe Akiji Kobayashi
Music by	Kunio Miyauchi
Cinematography	Yasumichi Fukuzawa Masaharu Utsumi
Distributed by	Tsuburaya Productions / Toho
Release date	March 17, 1979 (1979-03-17)
Running time	102 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Akio Jissouji's Ultraman (実相寺昭雄監督作品ウルトラマン, Jissouji Akio Kantoku Sakuhin Urutoraman) is a 1979 Japanese tokusatsu superhero kaiju film directed by Akio Jissoji. It is a compilation film made up of scenes from Jissoji's episodes of the original Ultraman TV series.

Cast

• Captain (Toshio) Mura(matsu): Akiji Kobayashi.
• Commander (Shin) Hayata: Susumu Kurobe.
• Lieutenant (Daisuke) Arashi: Sandayū Dokumamushi, credited as Iyoshi Ishii.
• Lieutenant (Dr. Matsuhiro) Ito(Ide): Masanari Nihei, credited as Masanori Nihei.
• Lieutenant (Akiko) Fuji: Hiroko Sakurai.
• Ultraman: Bin Furuya, aka Satoshi Furuya.

Akihide Tsuzawa (Isamu Hoshino/Hoshino Fuji) did not appear in any of the installments re-edited into the film.

Monsters

• Gavadon
• Telesdon
• The Underground Human
• Jamila
• Skydon
• Seabozu
• Alien Baltan
• Red King
• Gomora

Availability

Ultraman (1979) was released on DVD in Japan on June 13, 2006,^[2] having been previously released on LaserDisc, also in Japan, on July 22, 1993. No English-dubbed or English-subtitled version was known to be available in the United States as of early July 2015.

External links

• Urutoraman (1979) on IMDb
• ウルトラマン (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2009-05-01. 
• ウルトラマン(1979) (in Japanese). www.walkerplus.com. Retrieved 2009-05-01.  External link in |publisher= (help)

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