[KARATE-ROBO ZABORGAR is now available on home video.]
Review by Charles Cassady, Jr.
Stuck for a Christmas gift for that certain breed of cult-film connoisseur with a yen for low-rent Japanese superhero kitsch of yesteryear? In other words, for Cleveland filmmaker Robert Banks? The description fits pretty much nobody else I can think of. Once Robert showed an Ultraman episode on 16mm at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Counted for me as the high point in that institution's existence.So okay, stuck for a Christmas gift for Robert Banks? Then allow me to recommend KARATE-ROBO ZABORGAR. Director Noboru Iguchi, obviously a fan, does an over-the-top campy revisit here to a genre that would seem beyond parody, the live-action sci-fi karate-action superheroes of yesteryear's Japanese children's television. Anyone for a Kikaider Kick?
