Debuting in 1966 and shaping the tokusatsu genre long before the Power Rangers dominated pop culture, Ultraman is Japan’s oldest superhero. Inspiring decades of sci-fi action, extraterrestrial heroes, ...

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

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 ...