Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A Japanese genre of film and television drama featuring superheroes and special effects.
Etymologies
- Japanese 特撮? "special filming". (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Inazuman (Lightning Man) collectors box set which is a "tokusatsu" or live-action sci-fi TV series from the 70's.”
“He read a ton of Andre Norton novels as a child (mostly due to the Jeff Jones cover art), and is still hopelessly devoted to kaiju eiga and tokusatsu silliness.”
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“Kamen Rider Kabuto, a tokusatsu series that aired a few years back in Japan, basically took the concept of cloning and made it the basis for the first 75% of their story.”
“Latitude Zero (緯度0大作戦, Ido zero daisakusen), is a 1969 tokusatsu film.”
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“Both episodes of this great, sexy superheroine tokusatsu production have now been reposted over at Axon Cozy Smut's sleazy space place!”
“X-Bomber (Xボンバー Ekkusu Bonbā) is a marionette tokusatsu TV series.”
“They are two of the six shinkens from Samurai Sentai Shinkenger Toei Company's long-running Super Sentai Series of Japanese tokusatsu television series.”
“Kamen Rider strike is one of the characters from the Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight, an American adaptation of the Japanese tokusatsu series Kamen Rider Ryuki.”
“You can now watch subtitled episodes of the 1970s Japanese tokusatsu adaptation of Spider-Man on the Marvel Comics Website!”
“It's loaded with tokusatsu and monsters, and it even has subtitles, for crying out loud.”
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