Classic Tokusatsu Collection Coming from Shout! Studios on 02/27/24
After recently acquiring a batch of classic tokusatsu titles for streaming, Shout! Studios has now announced they will be releasing them to Blu-ray as a four-disc collection on 02/27/24, with a cost of $69.98.
Shout! has stated this will be a website-exclusive limited release of only 2,500 copies, the first 600 of which will come with an exclusive 18" x 24" poster featuring the release's brand new artwork (Update 02/13: The posters are sold out).
The contents and specs are listed below, courtesy of Shout! A couple of these classic films have new titles.
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Get ready to be transported back to the sixties to experience some of the early, eye-popping Tokusatsu films from Toei. Fiends from outer space! Amphibious gill-men from an underwater city! A superhuman mummy ready to save Earth! Sonny Chiba fighting robot-men! This stupendous box set is your ticket to the best of the colossal-est genre of them all!
DISC ONE:
PRINCE OF SPACE
(1080p High-Definition Widescreen (2.35:1) / Japanese DTS-HD Master Audio Mono / B&W / 57 min.)
A mysterious hero must intervene when a nefarious presence from outer space arrives to steal a powerful new rocket fuel.
INVASION OF THE NEPTUNE MEN
(1080p High-Definition Widescreen (2.35:1) / Japanese DTS-HD Master Audio Mono / B&W / 75 min.)
Sonny Chiba stars in this fantastical adventure about repelling invaders arriving from a distant planet to attack Tokyo.
DISC TWO:
WATARI THE NINJA BOY
(1080p High-Definition Widescreen (2.35:1) / Japanese DTS-HD Master Audio Mono / Color / 86 min.)
When the evil leaders of two ninja clans con their members into a relentless war, only a young ninja boy can save the day.
GOLDEN NINJA (aka THE GOLDEN BAT)
(1080p High-Definition Widescreen (2.35:1) / Japanese DTS-HD Master Audio Mono / B&W / 73 min.)
An evil alien threatens Earth, and a group of scientists travel to Atlantis to awaken a superhuman mummy defender in this thriller starring Sonny Chiba!
DISC THREE:
DRAGON SHOWDOWN (aka THE MAGIC SERPENT)
(1080p High-Definition Widescreen (2.35:1) / Japanese DTS-HD Master Audio Mono / Color / 85 min.)
A young prince must summon all his powers to take back a throne stolen from his family by a treacherous murderer!
NINJA SCOPE
(1080p High-Definition (1.33:1) / Japanese DTS-HD Master Audio Mono / Color/B&W / 52 min.)
Powerful ninjas and otherworldly creatures inhabit this adventure of Watari, a young ninja boy in feudal Japan.
DISC FOUR: BONUS FILM
TERROR BENEATH THE SEA
(1080p High-Definition Widescreen (1.78:1) / English Dubbed DTS-HD Master Audio Mono / Color / 79 min.)
Sonny Chiba stars in this tale about a group of surface dwellers who happen upon an underwater city ruled by a mad scientist and his amphibious servants.
NEW English Language Subtitle Translations For Prince Of Space (1959), Invasion Of The Neptune Men (1961), Watari The Ninja Boy (1966), Golden Ninja (1966), Dragon Showdown (1966), And Ninja Scope (1969)