Budapest Classic Film Marathon 2024: Moonlight Superman

Director: Satoru Kobayashi, Bao-Hui Shao

Screenplay by Hsiao-Tao Chen, Satoru Kobayashi
Director of photography: Seishi Heino
Music by Chung-Ying Tseng
Cast: Chih-Bang Kuei, Te-Nan Lai, Ping-Nan Wu

Programme Section "Future of the Past" / Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute

The first action scene has Halloween-masked members of the Cosmos gang attacking a man and snatching his briefcase. The somewhat eccentric figure of the journalist who turns up at the editorial meeting may remind European viewers of Fantomas and The Pink Panther, especially given that the Cosmos gang steals jewels and kidnaps the grandchild of the owner of a department store chain. Bullets cannot halt the onrush of the saviour, Dragon Superman, indeed, he is even impervious to a flamethrower. His dozens of armed attackers are put down with bare knuckles alone. The second part continues in a magical Japanese garden. The gang negotiates a swap of Inca treasure for Jing, the abducted grandchild of the store owner. The theatrical and airborne scene is ample proof of the comic talent of the filmmakers.

Supporting film: Gustavus and the Public Property
Hungarian animation, colour, 1964, dir: Attila Dargay, No dialogue, 5’

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