Genre:
Action + Comedy + Sci-Fi

Synopsis:
It is 2010. A failure as a 3rd grade teacher and a family man, Shinichi Ichikawa lives with his cheating wife, his teenage daughter who dates older men, and his son who is bullied because of his father's presence in the school. Escaping from everyday life, Shinichi secretly dresses up nightly as "Zebraman", the title character from an unpopular 1970's tokusatsu TV series he watched as a child before it was canceled after the seventh episode. As a result of meeting a wheelchair-using transfer student named Shinpei Asano, also a fan of Zebraman, Shinichi not only regains his love for teaching but also develops feelings for the boy's mother. At the same time, a rash of strange crimes and murders have been occurring around the school at which Shinichi teaches. On his way to Shinpei's house in his costume to give him a surprise, Shinichi fights a crab-masked serial killer whom he defeats when he starts exhibiting actual superpowers. Confronting more criminals who are possessed by a strange slime-based alien force, Shinichi learns that the Zebraman series was actually a cautionary prophecy of an actual alien invasion written by the school's principal, revealed to be an alien who refused to go through with the invasion and attempted to keep his kind from getting out from below the school before they kill him off and attack in full fury. Though he knows how the show ends, Shinichi defies his predestined fate as he is the only person who can stop the aliens from taking over the Earth.
(from IMDb.com)

Casts:
Show Aikawa ... Shinichi Ichikawa / Zebraman
Kyoka Suzuki ... Kana Asano / Zebra Nurse
Naoki Yasukochi ... Shinpei Asano
Atsuro Watabe ... Oikawa
Koen Kondo ... Segawa
Makiko Watanabe ... Yukiyo Ichikawa
Yui Ichikawa ... Midori Ichikawa
Yoshimasa Mishima ... Kazuki Ichikawa
Ren Osugi ... Kuniharu Kuroda
Teruyoshi Uchimura ... Ippongi
Akira Emoto ... Kitahara the Crab Man
Ryo Iwamatsu ... Kanda
Yu Tokui ... Pyromaniac
Yoji Boba Tanaka
Arata Furuta - Eggplant Vendor
Kumiko Aso ... Clerk

Runtime:
115 min

Also Known As:
Zeburâman (original title)

Country:
Japan

Superheroes:
Zebraman (more)

The movie inspired the manga:
"Zebraman" written by Reiji Yamada

Internal links:
Revenge of the Zebra Miniski.. (2010) (direct-to-video movie)
Zebraman 2 Vengeful Zebra City (2010)

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