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John Ary On KARATE-ROBO ZABORGAR!!

Published at: Sept. 10, 2012, 8:45 a.m. CST Share On Facebook Twitter

John Ary here with a look at Noburu Iguchi's Karate-Robo Zaborgar, a Kaiju film based on a 70's kids show from Japan.  In a time  when practically every commercial property from our youth is being mined by Hollywood, transformed into a darker grittier version of itself and then rebooted after a few tries, Zaborgar is a refreshing change of pace. Iguchi has taken the core concept of the original show, updated it with modern special effects, added some adult humor, and imagined how the actions of the main character as a young man would effect his life 25 years later. The result is a fun man-in-suit adventure that stuffs 10 pounds of explosions, missiles shooting out of cyborg lady bras, robot kung fu, and old school camp into a 5 pound bag.

 

 

 

Karate-Robo Zaborgar hits Blu-ray and DVD tomorrow and is available on Amazon here. For more news, reviews, and interviews, subscribe to the AICN Youtube channel and follow me on Twitter.

 

 

 

 

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• Sept. 10, 2012, 8:52 a.m. CST

  Hmmm....looks kinda fun.

  by James

  OR, I could just go and play with my Samurai Warriors from the late 70s.

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• Sept. 10, 2012, 8:53 a.m. CST

  Fuck me. SHOGUN warriors.

  by James

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• Sept. 10, 2012, 8:59 a.m. CST

  That's some freaky shit. Crazy, long-forotten *transformers* animé like ACROBUNCH or SPACE RUNAWAY IDEON could be ripe for this treatment.

  by justmyluck

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• Sept. 10, 2012, 9 a.m. CST

  And I took your advice and saw PREMIUM RUSH. Much better than the trailers (alas, they couldn't condense the time-shuffling plot without ruining it.)

  by justmyluck

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• Sept. 10, 2012, 9:20 a.m. CST

  Soon, the Super Karate Monkey Death Car would park in my spot

  by Nasty In The Pasty

  But Jimmy has fancy plans...! And...pants to match.

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• Sept. 10, 2012, 9:25 a.m. CST

  I don't get it. I was respecting a review, not a promo.

  by Knuckleduster

  What the fuck is this?

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• Sept. 10, 2012, 9:37 a.m. CST

  When is Michael Bay gonna give us, not the Ultraman movie that we deserve, but the Ultraman movie that we need?

  by kindofabigdeal

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• Sept. 10, 2012, 11:05 a.m. CST

  It pretty much had me at "missiles shooting out of cyborg lady bras."

  by Bill C.

  That said I was having a big old 'Tranzor Z' flashback while watching the review, so hey...

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• Sept. 10, 2012, 3:53 p.m. CST

  Fucking need to see this!!! A big TOKU FUCK YOU to the haters!!

  by the Green Gargantua

  I need a reboot of Akumaizer 3

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• Sept. 10, 2012, 4:13 p.m. CST

  TOKU is an untapped amazing market. But Americans see it as childish and fuck it up everytime. Check out GARO, Ultraman:Nexus, and Kamen Rider Hibiki

  by gk1

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• Sept. 10, 2012, 4:13 p.m. CST

  Speaking of Shogun Warriors...WHAT THE FUCK Happened to that GAIKING movie????

  by gk1

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• Sept. 10, 2012, 4:55 p.m. CST

  will pass

  by nametaken

  i know what he means when he says "too long." symptom of a lot of these types of movies, you get the joke but they keep retelling it over and over.

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• Sept. 10, 2012, 6:43 p.m. CST

  gk1 , I have been screaming at HARRY for NEVER following up that GAIKING article. If you re-read it, it is totally insane.

  by the Green Gargantua

  WTF. Not even a PEEP. TIL THAN WE GET "PACIFIC RIM", WHICH WILL BE GREAT.

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• Sept. 11, 2012, 3:14 a.m. CST

  This was FAR too campy for it's own good.

  by 3D-Man

  The charm of old school tokusatsu IMHO is that it took itself very seriously. Although the monsters often looked silly (Scissors Tiger, Bazooka Turtle, etc.) and the situations were quite preposterous, there were real stakes involved. I appreciate what they tried to do with this Zaborgar update, but the amped up goofiness makes for an uneven tone throughout the entire piece.

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• Sept. 11, 2012, 5:41 a.m. CST

  yawwwn

  by Kain Michael Wyatt II

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