Ultraman: Towards the Future
| Ultraman: Towards the Future | |
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| Also known as | Ultraman Great |
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| Directed by | Andrew Prowse |
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| Theme music composer | Shinsuke Kazato |
| Composer(s) | Shinsuke Kazato |
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| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
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| Executive producer(s) | Noboru Tsuburaya |
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| Cinematography | Paul Dallwitz |
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| Running time | 25 mins |
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Ultraman: Towards the Future, released in Japan as Ultraman Great (ウルトラマンG（グレート） Urutoraman Gurēto?), is a Japanese Australian tokusatsu television show co-produced by Tsuburaya Productions and the South Australian Film Corporation. It is the 10th show in the Ultra series, the first Ultraman show to be produced during Japan's Heisei period, and the first Australian-produced Ultraman show: the first production in the franchise to be entirely filmed outside of Japan.
Despite being co-produced by an Australian studio and filmed in Australia, Ultraman: Towards the Future never aired in Australia and instead was released on home video and LaserDisc however, the show did air in North American in 1992 and in Japan in 1995 under the title Ultraman Great.
Jack Shindo and Stanley Haggard are members of the first manned expedition to Mars, and on the red planet find a giant slug-like monster, Goudes/Gudis. Suddenly the giant warrior, Ultraman, arrives and fights Goudes, but is knocked down for a period. Shindo is pinned by a rockslide and Haggard tries to escape in their ship but is blown up by Goudes. It is then that Ultraman gets up, and when he is on the verge of victory Goudes changes into a virus and travels to Earth, where it plans on corrupting all life, mutating other creatures into monsters and awakening existing ones. Needing a human host to survive on Earth, Ultraman joins with Jack, allowing him to become the mighty alien when all seems lost. He joins the Universal Multipurpose Agency, or UMA, in order to help them battle the monsters.
Halfway through the series Goudes reappears, more powerful than before. It imprisons Ultraman, but Jack distracts it by ultimately showing it the futility of its mission. Even if it does manage to corrupt all life, eventually there will be nothing else to corrupt. The distraction allows Ultraman to break free and destroy Goudes once and for all. For the rest of the series the environmental themes are stronger and the monsters usually arise from human pollution.
In the series finale, a doomsday scenario begins with the appearance of three powerful monsters: Kilazee, Kodalar, and the Earth itself, which tries to wipe out the human race for abusing it. Ultraman is defeated by Kodalar, but Jack survives. Ultimately the humans use an ancient disc to destroy Kodalar by reflecting its own power at it and Ultraman defeats Kilazee and carries it into space, separating Jack from him and restoring him on Earth as a normal human. The victory is seen as another chance for the human race.
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