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Hitoshi Matsumoto
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Akihiko Okamoto, Yasushi Minatoya (executive)
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Hitoshi Matsumoto, Mitsuyoshi Takasu
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$9,694,904
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$70,681
(Foreign Earnings)
$9,765,585
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113 minutes
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Big Man Japan (大日本人, Dai Nipponjin, lit. Great Japanese) is a 2007 tokusatsu kaiju film co-produced by Realproducts and Yoshimoto Kogyo Company and distributed in Japan by Shochiku. The film was released to Japanese theaters on June 2, 2007 and to American theaters on May 15, 2009.
Plot
A documentary film crew interviews and follows the life of Masaru Daisato, the sixth and current member in a family line of supernatural protectors of Japan who can temporarily grow into giants when infused with electricity.
Despite the fame and admiration that the previous giant guardians had garnered, defending Japan from various monsters of similar heights, by Masaru's time, the tradition is viewed as old hat by the jaded Japanese public and as controversial by the unfairly critical Japanese media, even though giant monsters still menace the country on a near-weekly basis and there is still a need for Masaru's service. It also doesn't help matters that Masaru himself is something of a loser: an unkempt divorced father living alone with a timid and lazy demeanor that only adds fuel to the criticisms, especially when compared to his far more successful late father, The Fifth, and still-living grandfather, The Fourth, the latter of which having succumbed to mental illness in his old age.
Staff
Staff role on the left, staff member's name on the right.
- Directed by Hitoshi Matsumoto
- Written by Hitoshi Matsumoto, Mitsuyoshi Takasu
- Executive producing by Yasushi Minatoya
- Produced by Akihiko Okamoto
- Music by Towa Tei
- Cinematography by Hideo Yamamoto
- Edited by Soichi Ueno
- Production design by Etsuko Aiko, Yuji Hayashida
Cast
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Actor's name on the left, character played on the right.
- Hitoshi Matsumoto as Masaru Daisato / Big Man Japan
- Riki Takeuchi as Haneru-no-ju
- Ua as Manager Kobori
- Ryûnosuke Kamiki as Warabe-no-ju
- Haruka Unabara as Shimeru-no-ju
- Tomoji Hasegawa as Interviewer / Director
- Itsuji Itao as Female Niou-no-ju
- Hiroyuki Miyasako as Stay With Me
- Takayuki Haranishi as Male Niou-no-ju
- Daisuke Miyagawa as Super Justice
- Takuya Hashimoto as Midon
- Taichi Yazaki as Daisato's Grandfather
- Shion Machida as Daisato's Ex-wife
- Atsuko Nakamura as Bar Proprietress Azusa
- Daisuke Nagakura as Daisato's Grandfather - Younger
- Motohiro Toriki as Daisato's Father
- Keidai Yano as Young Daisato
- Junshiro Hayama as Shinto Priest
- Koichi Kitamura as Commander 1
- Norio Nakayama as Commander 2
- Toshihiro Koike as Udon Noodle Shop Owner
- Atsuo Tanaka as Kanto District Security Guard
- Yoshio Takahashi as Security Guard in Mikawa
- Yoshihiro Kasuya as Care Worker
- Yumiko Ise as Kyoko
- Roselyn Yoshio as Nina
- Kaho Okajima as Daisato's Daughter
- Jeong-Suk O. as Announcer
- Yoshihisa Shimazaki
- Katsumune Onuki
- Norihito Kobari
- Masayuki Sekine as Daisato's Ex-Wife's Boyfriend
- Takumi Matsumoto
- Ryushin Tei
- Tatsuya Oba as Convenience Store Clerk
- Salam Diagne as Super Justice's Father (as Saramu Jânyu)
- Yasuhiro Roppongi as Don't Touch Me
- Yutaka Mishima as Midon - CGI
- Hidetoshi Ito
- Ai Nagano as Don't Touch Me (voice)
- Kiyozumi Honda as Super Defense Team
- Satoya Ishii as Super Defense Team
- Seijiro Nakamura as Super Defense Team
- Shunsaku Yajima as Pilot
- Hiroko Toda as Bandaged Handsome Boy
- Tetsuya Kume as Taxi Driver
- Yuka Kamebuchi
- Hiroko Nohara
- Miho Silica Nakajima
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- Keiko Kurachi
- Sachi Igarashi
- Katsura Otsuka
- Ayumi Takagi
- Nobuo Furusho
- Satoshi Fujimura
- Hisao Kanno
- Daisuke Takayama
- Sanryo Odaka
- Katsuo Niijima
- Takumi Akama
- Ryosuke Makioka
- Aya Ando
- Natsuho Ariga
- Sachiko Kitamura
- Fusako Yuzawa
- Shunji Ishii
- Noriko Hayashi
- Naoji Kodama
- Tadashi Munesue
- Mitsuko Kobayashi
- Eiji Mochizuki
- Fumio Kobayashi
- Reiko Nakaoka
- Susumu Sobue
- Kyoko Hayami
- Aki Miyazoe
- Miku Yoshikawa
- Yasuhiro Koshi
- Kazuya Shimizu
- Kenji Motomiya
- Seiji Yajima
- Ryoji Okamoto
- Toshimichi Tazaki
- Nobuhiro Fujita
- Hiroyuki Hasebe
- Takayoshi Tanimoto
- Yasushi Kuroki
- Daisuke Horai
- Koichi Ito
- Hideyuki Sato
- Kiyohiko Imai
- Akihiro Ugajin
- Kazuhiko Takeuchi
- Komei Niitora
- Noriaki Sekiguchi
- Takashi Hoshino
- Masafumi Kanai
- Tatsuhiro Kaiko
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Appearances
Monsters
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Weapons, vehicles, and races
- Super Defense Team patrol car
- Super Defense Team fighter jet
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Gallery
- Main article: Big Man Japan/Gallery.
Soundtrack
- Main article: Big Man Japan (Soundtrack).
Alternate titles
- Great Japanese (literal Japanese title)
- The Demon (English working title)
- The Electric Man (English working title)
- The Man of Electricity (English working title)
- Giant Japanese (Японский гигант; Russia)
- Very Big Japanese (Πολύ μεγάλοι Γιαπωνέζοι; Greece)
Theatrical releases
- Japan - June 2, 2007
- Hong Kong - November 8, 2007
- United States - March 13, 2008 (Cleveland International Film Festival); April 3, 2008 (Wisconsin Film Festival); July 4, 2008 (New York Asian Film Festival); May 15, 2009
- Germany - July 17, 2008
Because of the film's positive reception during its limited but lengthy theatrical run in America, Columbia Pictures optioned a remake with Neil H. Moritz attached as producer and Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi taking on screenwriting duties.[1] The project went silent after its initial 2011 announcement but in 2013, the screenwriters gave the online new site Collider an update on the remake; namely, that it was still in the works but not much else. Afterwards, the planned American remake virtually vanished into development hell and is widely believed to have been quietly killed off.
Big Man Japan was first screened at the Cleveland International Film Festival on March 13, 2008 and was screened in April of the same year at the Newport Beach International Film Festival and the Wisconsin Film Festival. On May 15, 2009, the film was given a theatrical release by Magnet Releasing.
Awards
Video releases
Madman Entertainment DVD (2009)
- Region: 4
- Discs: 1
- Audio: Japanese (5.1 Surround)
- Subtitles: English
- Special features: Japanese theatrical trailer, still gallery
- Notes: Released on January 22, 2009
Videos
Trailers
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| Japanese Big Man Japan trailer
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| U.S. Big Man Japan trailer
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Clips
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| Clip #1 - "The Strangling Monster"
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| Clip #2 - "Becoming Big Man Japan"
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| Clip #3 - "The Leaping Monster"
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| Clip #4 - "Kaiju Grandpa"
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| Clip #5 - "The Evil Stare Monster"
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| Clip #6 - "The Stink Monster"
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| Clip #7 - "The Child Monster"
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| Clip #8 - "Grandpa vs. The Evil Red"
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| Clip #10 - "Super Justice Beating"
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Trivia
External links
References
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Great Japanese (2007)
