Fresh
Somewhere there is a stranger film than Big Man Japan, but it would be hard to find.
Tom Long, Detroit News
Big Man Japan
2007 · 1h 53m · PG-13
Action, Comedy, Science Fiction
Directed by
Hitoshi Matsumoto
Overview
Daisato, a second-rate, third-generation superhero, annoys his neighbors with the noise and destruction he causes on the job. But a heroic public image is the least of his concerns. Besides defending Japan from bizarre monsters, he must deal with an agent seeking to brand him with ads, a superhero grandfather with Alzheimer's and a family embarrassed by his incompetence.
Director and cast
- Hitoshi Matsumoto Director
- Hitoshi Matsumoto as Masaru Daisatô / Dai-Nihonjin
- UA as Manager Kobori
- Itsuji Itao as Female Niou-no-jû
- Ryunosuke Kamiki as Warabe-no-jû
- Miyagawa Daisuke as Super Justice
- Hiroyuki Miyasako as Stay With Me
- Riki Takeuchi as Hanerunojyuu
- Unabara Haruka as Shimeru-no-jû
- Takayuki Haranishi as Male Niou-no-jû
- Shion Machida as Daisatô's Ex-wife
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
77%
Tomatometer
Fresh
This inspired 2007 send-up of the atomic-monster genre gets a fair amount of comic mileage from Daisato (played by the director) being anything but a big man.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Very funny in an insidious way.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
The film, written, directed and starring stand-up comic Hitoshi Matsumoto has, like most superheroes, a tragic flaw: It isn't funny.
G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle
Rotten
At nearly two hours, Big Man Japan is clever (in a sick sort of way) but overlong. It needs judicious editing -- more mockumentary, fewer superhero antics.
V.A. Musetto, New York Post
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