Big Man Japan
Certified Crap. CrapScore 64, rated by 1 admin.
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Japan's giant defender has bills, bad publicity and an increasingly embarrassing professional record. Documentary-style drabness alternates with battles against some very strange creatures. The quiet indignities matter as much as the monsters, so settle in for a deliberately deadpan superhero employment crisis.
Nominated by @flabbergasted_jones
The club’s verdict
- Acting
- 4.5/10
- Plot
- 9/10
- Effects
- 4.5/10
- Dialogue
- 6/10
- Rewatchability
- 8/10
“Saving Japan has become a poorly reviewed day job.”
@flabbergasted_jones, scored it 64
Synopsis and movie facts
Daisato, a second-rate, third-generation superhero, annoys his neighbors with the noise and destruction he causes on the job. But a heroic public image is the least of his concerns. Besides defending Japan from bizarre monsters, he must deal with an agent seeking to brand him with ads, a superhero grandfather with Alzheimer's and a family embarrassed by his incompetence.
- Released
- 2007
- Directed by
- Hitoshi Matsumoto
- Running time
- 113 min
- Original title
- 大日本人
Starring
- Hitoshi Matsumoto as Masaru Daisatô / Dai-Nihonjin
- UA as Manager Kobori
- Itsuji Itao as Female Niou-no-jû
- Ryunosuke Kamiki as Warabe-no-jû
- Miyagawa Daisuke as Super Justice
- Hiroyuki Miyasako as Stay With Me
- Riki Takeuchi as Hanerunojyuu
- Unabara Haruka as Shimeru-no-jû
Research behind this pick
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- Film reference · themoviedb.org
TMDB identity and credits retrieved on 2026-11-10: Big Man Japan (2007), directed by Hitoshi Matsumoto. The importer rechecks identity, poster, synopsis, release date, runtime, genres and cast against live metadata.
- Review · rogerebert.com
Roger Ebert praises the sly combination of documentary, reality-TV and monster-movie satire, contrasting the downbeat hero with wildly exaggerated creatures. Full review text consulted on 2026-11-10.
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