From the Zebraman review
Yokohama, 2010. In an otherwise normal-looking city, animals are starting to behave funnily, and new, previously unheard-of species of animals such as giant crabs are sighted. Clearly something is amiss in the city, but primary-school teacher Ichikawa (Miike regular Sho Aikawa in his 100th film role) has other things on his mind. His wife is having an affair, his daughter is a teenage prostitute, his son is bullied by his classmates and he himself is a lousy teacher with no self-esteem. The only thing that keeps him going is the memory of “Zebraman”, a superhero series broadcast in the 1970s but cancelled after seven episodes because of disastrous ratings. One night, after Ichikawa has put on his home-made Zebraman suit (you’ve guessed it: black and white stripes), he hears a funny sound and goes out to investigate. Out on the street, he gets into a fight with an unsavoury individual who turns out to be an alien. And he isn’t the only one; it quickly transpires that all of Yokohama is beset by aliens, who have taken over the bodies of their human hosts with a view to taking over the whole planet. Unexpectedly, Ichikawa in his Zebraman guise turns out to be a match for the aliens, and so he begins to realise that he is not just ACTING Zebraman anymore, but through some weird process he doesn’t understand has actually BECOME Zebraman – which, among other things, means that the hair on his neck stands on end whenever he senses alien mischief in the vicinity, like a zebra’s.
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