“Ultraman: Rising,” the first animated feature from the Japanese franchise that began back in 1966, had its world premiere at the Annecy International Film Festival on Wednesday night, and as the ...

At its pulsing circular core, Ultraman is a generational story. Conceived by Eiji Tsuburaya, one of Godzilla’s co-creators and the founder of Tsuburaya Productions, the franchise centers on a gigantic ...

“Ultraman” is one of the most iconic and popular characters in Japanese history, running since 1966 with countless reboots and sequels across different mediums. Though it hasn’t really broken out in ...

Like their close cousins in the kaiju subgenre, kyodai hero films and TV shows – with their giant, costumed defenders of humanity – tend to be over-the-top action extravaganzas whose flimsy stories ...

An attractive, original take on the Ultraman legend privileges a heavy-handed parenting lesson over the kind of monster mania fans expect from the franchise. If I understood “Ultraman: Rising” ...

Netflix has released a new trailer for the new animated version of Ultraman, an adaptation of the manga series by Tomohiro Shimoguchi and Eiichi Shimizu, which was a direct sequel to the original live ...

Shin Ultraman was reviewed out of Fantastic Fest. It does not yet have a North American release date. Shinji Higuchi and Hideaki Anno once again reimagine a beloved ‘60s Japanese tokusatsu franchise ...

Ultraman has been fighting monsters for longer than many of our readers have been alive. First arriving in 1966, the larger-than-life figure has appeared in countless films, television projects, and ...

An intellectual property dispute between the Japanese rights holders to the iconic Ultraman character and a Chinese movie studio has intensified with the release of a sequel to a 2017 movie, over ...