On June 23, 2025, 88 Films is releasing Blu-ray (Region B) for both 2004’s Zebraman and 2010’s Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City, two superhero thrillers from cult director Takashi Miike (First Love, Blade of the Immortal).
An affectionate homage to the heyday of Japan’s tokusatsu superhero TV shows, directed by Takashi Miike and written by Kankuro Kudo (Go, Ping Pong), Zebraman stars the legendary Show Aikawa as Shinichi, a teacher facing a midlife crisis, as his family collapses around him. To escape from the bitter reality of his daily he existence, Shinichi takes to secretly dressing up as Zebraman, the eponymous hero of an obscure 1970s TV series from when he was a kid that was cancelled after just seven episodes. Meanwhile, as his life collapses around him, aliens are at large and readying themselves to take over planet Earth. Can Shinichi overcome his lack of confidence to channel his childhood fantasies into saving the world?
Features:
- HIGH-DEFINITION BLU-RAY PRESENTATION IN 1.85:1 ASPECT RATIO
- ORIGINAL JAPANESE STEREO AND 5.1 SURROUND SOUND AUDIO TRACKS
- OPTION ENGLISH AUDIO TRACK
- BRAND NEW FILMED INTRODUCTION BY TOM MES
- “MAKING OF” DOCUMENTARY
- DELETED SCENES
- ZEBRAMAN PREMIERE
- ARCHIVE INTERVIEW WITH TAKASHI MIIKE
- ARCHIVE INTERVIEW WITH SHOW AIKAWA
- 1978 TV SERIES TRAILER
- ZEBRAMAN THEME SONG
- THEATRICAL TRAILER
- TV SPOT
- STILLS GALLERY
- BOOKLET ESSAY BY MARK PLAYER
- ORIGINAL AND NEWLY COMMISSIONED ARTWORK BY LUCAS PEVERILL
It’s 2025, and our hero Shinichi finds himself waking up minus memory, zebra stripes and zebra powers in an authoritarian dystopian future. Tokyo has been taken over by a sinister ultra right-wing governor named Kozo, who has reconstructed and rechristened the capital as Zebra City and mandated a twice-daily five-minute purge called Zebra Time in which all crime is legal and his Zebra Police readily pitch themselves into the resulting free-for-all. It’s a society dominated by screens, and the screens dominated by a sultry pop diva named Zebra Queen, who just happens to be Kozo’s daughter. Can Shinichi regain his Zebraman powers to thwart the Kozo and the Zebra Queen’s plans to export their dark vision across the world?
Features:
- HIGH-DEFINITION BLU-RAY PRESENTATION IN 1.85:1 ASPECT RATIO
- ORIGINAL JAPANESE STEREO AND 5.1 SURROUND SOUND AUDIO TRACKS
- AUDIO COMMENTARY BY JOE HICKINBOTTOM
- BRAND NEW FILMED INTRODUCTION BY TOM MES
- ZEBRAMAN 2: ATTACK ON ZEBRA CITY “MAKING OF” DOCUMENTARY
- INTERVIEW WITH DIRECTOR TAKASHI MIIKE INTERVIEW WITH RIKI ABE
- INTERVIEW WITH SHOW AIKAWA
- INTERVIEW WITH MASAHIRO INOUE
- INTERVIEW WITH RIISA NAKA
- ORIGINAL THEATRICAL TRAILERS AND TV SPOTS
- STILLS GALLERY
- BOOKLET ESSAY BY JONATHAN WROOT
- ORIGINAL AND NEWLY COMMISSIONED ARTWORK BY LUCAS PEVERILL
These titles will soon be available at The Goodie Emporium, a U.S.-based online store that currently has many Import Shaw Brothers/Golden Harvest/martial arts DVD/Blu-ray movies in-stock – with New titles being added regularly!
Watch the film’s Trailers below:
