Budapest Classic Film Marathon 2024: Skyfly 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

Introduction by: István Kispéter, Researcher-Archivist, NFI – Film Archive

The thrilling adventures of Dragon Superman are concluded in part three. We are back in the amazing Japanese garden as the final part of the trilogy opens with the kidnapping of a bunch of schoolgirls. Once again, the bumbling journalist San Lin-jun makes an appearance. The ideas still keep coming from the mind of Satoru Kobayashi; in this episode, events are spiced up with a mad motorboat chase and finally a long one-on-one fight that can be seen as a worthy wrap, in which opponents are literally at each other’s throat to decide the worthy adversary to their superhero. The conclusion does not miss the chance to add a drop of sentimentalism, either.

Supporting film: Gustavus Stays in Bed
Hungarian animation, colour, 1964, dir: Attila Dargay, No dialogue, 5’

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