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Hideaki Anno to Present Selection of His Favorite Tokusatsu at Shinjuku Theater

posted on by Eric Stimson
Over 50 works from about 50 years

It's no secret that Hideaki Anno (Neon Genesis Evangelion, Shin Godzilla, His and Her Circumstances) is a big fan of tokusatsu (special effects-heavy Japanese action stories). Astute viewers can pick up the influences in his work, he recreates scenes from them in Insufficient Direction (a manga by his wife, Moyoco, on their life together), and he's even curated a museum exhibit of tokusatsu props. Anno fans curious about which tokusatsu works made the biggest impact on him can find out themselves on March 17, when the Shinjuku Wald 9 movie theater screens a selection of his favorites.


Anno and Hikawa at the Tokyo International Film Festival in 2014

"Hideaki Anno's Very Personal Collection of TV Tokusatsu Heroes (Opening Songs, Etc.)" brings together excerpts, including opening and ending themes, from over 50 TV shows from the 1960s to the early 2010s. Anno will then take the stage with tokusatsu expert Ryūsuke Hikawa to explain what these shows mean to him. The two had worked together on a similar 2014 program collecting their favorite anime opening themes from the Shōwa Era (which ended in 1989).

The tokusatsu event celebrates the 10th anniversary of the opening of Shinjuku Wald 9. The theater will also screen Lupin the Third: Jigen's Gravestone and Lupin the IIIrd Chikemuri no Ishikawa Goemon back-to-back on March 2, with the director (Takeshi Koike), writer (Yuuya Takahashi), musician (James Shimoji), and producer (Yu Kiyozono) discussing them afterward. For something completely different, anime fans can check out the March 3 premiere of the latest PriPara movie, Gekijōban PriPara: Mi~nna de Kagayake! Kirarin Star Live.

Tickets for Hideaki Anno's Very Personal Collection of TV Tokusatsu Heroes will cost 2,500 yen ($22) and go on sale at Kinezo Express.

Source: Anime! Anime!: Katsunori Takahashi; Image from Walker+


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