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04-14-2018, 03:38 PM | #51 |
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04-14-2018, 04:57 PM | #52 |
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I don't consider it to be toku, but it is most definitely falls under the giant monsters umbrella, which is a genre largely dominated by tokusatsu films. The thing about Pacific Rim though is that it's very obvious with its Japanese influence.
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04-14-2018, 09:09 PM | #53 |
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Tokusatsu itself is a weird term. Hideaki Anno himself believes it's a uniquely Japanese form of making special effects heavy movies while others believe it's anything that's special effects heavy. (which paints a very broad definition) In English speaking fanbases, transforming heroes are regularly misidentified as the sole definition of what tokusatsu is.
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04-14-2018, 09:19 PM | #54 |
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Tokusatsu itself is a weird term. Hideaki Anno himself believes it's a uniquely Japanese form of making special effects heavy movies while others believe it's anything that's special effects heavy. (which paints a very broad definition) In English speaking fanbases, tokusatsu is regularly misidentified as the sole definition of what tokusatsu is.
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04-14-2018, 09:51 PM | #55 |
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To me, Toku is a movie or TV show that are heavy special effects from Japan. You have human size monster movies from Japan like The Green Slime, Matango, Half Human, Zeiram, etc that are still consider to be Toku. You even have Disaster, Sci-Fi, War and Action movies that are heavy with special effects that are still consider to be Toku like Virus (Not to be confused with the 1999 film of the same name), Japan Sinks, The War in Space, The Mysterians, Prophecies of Nostradamus, etc.
I don't like calling movies and TV shows like Pacific Rim, Cloverfield, Rampage and the CW DC superhero shows as Toku. If The Flash was made in Japan, I would view it as Toku.
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04-14-2018, 10:29 PM | #56 |
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To me, tokusatsu is Japanese live action shows/movies with "suitmation" techniques.
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04-14-2018, 10:56 PM | #57 |
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It's all a case of technicality vs personal views, as basically most action show in the west falls under Tokusatsu due to it's actual definition.
However, I'm also under the agreement of most everyone else here as well.
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04-17-2018, 02:27 PM | #58 |
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Mystic knights was that bad ?
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04-17-2018, 02:34 PM | #59 |
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I liked it. But it was definitely a product of it's time.
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04-17-2018, 03:00 PM | #60 |
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Could the time slot was responsible for Dragon knight failure ?
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