Die REAL Silver Mask...
Spurred on by the faithless remake, I dug out my DVD of SILVER MASK (the real one) 9-12.
Senkousha's SILVER MASK was the first show to try to cash in on the success of KAMEN RIDER. Giant heroes were the big thing at the time, but KR (with the "luck" of a horrible bike accident by its first star) managed to change the tide of tokusatsu to henshin heroes.
However, SILVER MASK didn't resist too long. The show started as a henshin hero, but in episode 11 it yielded and made its hero giant-sized.
The show involved the efforts of four siblings (3 boys, 1 girl) to protect their dead father's "Proton Rocket" from invading aliens. The thing must be cool to warrant coming all the way to Earth for. Of course, one brother can transform himself into Silver Mask with the innovative henshin phrase "Attack!"
Episode 9 was, well, incomprehensible to a non-Japanese speaker. Four aliens disguise themselves as the four siblings and attack a funeral. Naturally, the real siblings must exonerate themselves. The imposters are stabbed (in the case of the girl) or gunned down (the bros) by the real siblings. After this, the aliens combine into a lame gray kaijin that Silver Mask kills in a fairly dull battle. No action at all aside for gunplay and the SM
battle at the end.
I was busy doing laundry for most of episode 10, which seemed to have Silver Mask fighting aliens dressed like Chinese/North Korean solders. At the end, the sibling find a message from their father that (I think) lets them into the Proton Rocket.
In episode 11, the heroes decide to launch the Proton Rocket to the moon (I think), finding an alien base - and a giant beast protecting it, which claims space for the Satan Seijin! Silver Mask, of course, is too wittle to fight against the thing, and the gang must fly away to Earth, where the rocket crashes...and gives Silver Mask gigantism and a much improved costume. Of course, the monster comes to Earth to plant signs on it, and Silver Mask must fight it off. Hey, Shin Kishida* shows up!
*-Shin Kishida acted in SUNVULCAN, FIREMAN, and GODZILLA vs MECHAGODZILLA (I believe he also played Dracula). I think he wrote a few episodes of FIREMAN as well.
[9-10] Maybe there's Shakespeareian dialogue going on here that I can't understand, but I doubt it. Seriously, most 30-minute toy commerical tokusatsu can be at least partially enjoyed without knowing Japanese, but it's really not the case here.
Episode 11's giant monster battle isn't bad. I think Senkousha made the right call in gigantizing the guy. Still, I'd rather watch Senkousha's giant hero follow up IRON KING or live-action super robot RED BARON.
Spurred on by the faithless remake, I dug out my DVD of SILVER MASK (the real one) 9-12.
Senkousha's SILVER MASK was the first show to try to cash in on the success of KAMEN RIDER. Giant heroes were the big thing at the time, but KR (with the "luck" of a horrible bike accident by its first star) managed to change the tide of tokusatsu to henshin heroes.
However, SILVER MASK didn't resist too long. The show started as a henshin hero, but in episode 11 it yielded and made its hero giant-sized.
The show involved the efforts of four siblings (3 boys, 1 girl) to protect their dead father's "Proton Rocket" from invading aliens. The thing must be cool to warrant coming all the way to Earth for. Of course, one brother can transform himself into Silver Mask with the innovative henshin phrase "Attack!"
Episode 9 was, well, incomprehensible to a non-Japanese speaker. Four aliens disguise themselves as the four siblings and attack a funeral. Naturally, the real siblings must exonerate themselves. The imposters are stabbed (in the case of the girl) or gunned down (the bros) by the real siblings. After this, the aliens combine into a lame gray kaijin that Silver Mask kills in a fairly dull battle. No action at all aside for gunplay and the SM
battle at the end.
I was busy doing laundry for most of episode 10, which seemed to have Silver Mask fighting aliens dressed like Chinese/North Korean solders. At the end, the sibling find a message from their father that (I think) lets them into the Proton Rocket.
In episode 11, the heroes decide to launch the Proton Rocket to the moon (I think), finding an alien base - and a giant beast protecting it, which claims space for the Satan Seijin! Silver Mask, of course, is too wittle to fight against the thing, and the gang must fly away to Earth, where the rocket crashes...and gives Silver Mask gigantism and a much improved costume. Of course, the monster comes to Earth to plant signs on it, and Silver Mask must fight it off. Hey, Shin Kishida* shows up!
*-Shin Kishida acted in SUNVULCAN, FIREMAN, and GODZILLA vs MECHAGODZILLA (I believe he also played Dracula). I think he wrote a few episodes of FIREMAN as well.
[9-10] Maybe there's Shakespeareian dialogue going on here that I can't understand, but I doubt it. Seriously, most 30-minute toy commerical tokusatsu can be at least partially enjoyed without knowing Japanese, but it's really not the case here.
Episode 11's giant monster battle isn't bad. I think Senkousha made the right call in gigantizing the guy. Still, I'd rather watch Senkousha's giant hero follow up IRON KING or live-action super robot RED BARON.
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