MifuneFan

starsteam

So glad to finally be able to add these films to both my Invisible Man collection and tokusatsu collection.

bergman864

I know nothing about either of these films. I need to find out more.

MifuneFan

Trailer for Invisible Man Appears

Zillamon51

I'm a big toku fan, but I've never seen these, nor do I know anything about them (other than hearing the titles once or twice). Another instant preorder for toku from Arrow!

DukeTogo84

In for both of these.

fred25_Ca

So, does a human fly (like in the Vincent Price versions) fights an invisible man? That's what I was hoping for going by the title of the second movie. :P
The description seem to indicate a very different movie than what the title always implied.
Really intrigued by these.

MifuneFan

Apparently it's a serial killer that can shrink down to the size of a fly and kill people without being seen

thornhill

I wasn't aware of these , but I am in for these two IM films!

Spud_Almighty

Never heard of these. Sounds like my kind of thing.

mdo7

So Spiderman wasn't the only western character to get a "Japanization" adaptation. For those of you that don't know what I'm talking about, I'll explain it below. But back on topic, I didn't know the Invisible Man got his own Japanization adaptation that pre-dated Toei's Spiderman (1978-1979) and also pre-date Toho's King Kong, and Frankenstein's Monster.

So I take it The Invisible Man in the Japanese adaptation doesn't have a giant robot like Spiderman did



Oh yeah and about the Japanese Toei's Spiderman thing. There's a interesting documentary how that came to be on Disney+:


If you don't have Disney+, Toy Galaxy's YT channel talked about it (abeit not 100% accurately):


So anyway, nice to know Spiderman was not the only given a Japanese adaptation treatment, Invisible Man got the same thing and pre-dated even Spiderman.

Very fascinating, and happy to see this getting a US/NA blu-ray release for the first time.

fred25_Ca

Sounds even more insane than I thought haha.

mdo7

I just found that Daei wasn't the only studio that did a adaptation of The Invisible Man. Toho seem to have done one too under the name, The Invisible Avenger. That one was directed by Motoyoshi Oda (the same guy that directed Godzilla Raid Again, the sequel to the 1954 Japanese original). So nice to know the Invisible Man got multiple "Japanization" adaptation.

DukeTogo84

I just love that cover. I wish they used the artist Graham Humphreys more often. They used to use him nearly every month, but it's been a decent amount of time since he did something for Arrow.

starsteam

King Kong... Dracula (also released by Arrow)... kaiju Frankenstein. Plenty more Japanese versions of international characters slipping my mind.

mdo7

I'm pretty sure that Dracula from the Bloodthirsty Trilogy is not Dracula despite the English title. That could be a disciple of Dracula. I know because I watched both Lake of Dracula and Evil of Dracula on Prime Video when it's on there. Despite both titles has Dracula in it's name, it does not have a "Japanization" of Count Dracula. Even on IMDB's Lake of Dracula, the main vampire character is not even called Dracula in the Japanese language.

But yes, we do have a "Japanization" version of King Kong, and Frankenstein. But no "Japan-ize" Dracula.

Killer Meteor

Toho sort of did a version of Doctor Who in King Kong Escapes...

starsteam

That was based on the Rankin/Bass King Kong cartoon which featured a villain named Dr. Who. Not the British character.

mdo7

That's not the Doctor Who the sci-fi and British people know. This Doctor Who is based on a villain from Rankin-Bass/Toei's King Kong Show.

Zillamon51

Amazon preorder is up. The cover art only references the first film, with no mention of the second. I came here to verify that it's a two-film set. The product description does say, both films on one disc. So all good, pre-ordered!