The Masked Superman Light Squad, aka: The Light Squad Covered Men. Light Team Maskman, this work launched in 1987 must be familiar to everyone. Many people watched the first team series when they were young, and the post-90s should have seen more. The 11th installment in the Super Sentai series. This film is still a relatively classic in the Super Sentai series.
The film was also the first production in the Super Sentai series to be broadcast in Hong Kong (not counting the two works of Shotaro Ishimori), which was broadcast by TVB Jade channel in 1989 under the title "Super Soldier".
The classic line at the beginning of the film: "There is an incredible energy lurking in the human body, and after repeated exercises, the energy will be unlimited - the light team" maskman. When I was a child, I also fantasized about whether I really went through training again and again, I could be very powerful, although it was a naïve fantasy of childhood, but men should have their own heroic dreams.
Cross electric light cannon, Doctor takeoff, electric light ... These are the more familiar lines in the game.
The team members of this film also have their own characteristics, and each has their own strengths. When we were children, we watched the Taiwanese version of the Chinese dubbing. At that time, many Chinese dubbed special dramas were Taiwanese version Chinese dubbing, and there were still some differences between the translations in some places and the Japanese subtitles we see today. For example, the leader of the Hell Kingdom Chinese called "Emperor Hibon". The Japanese translation is "Ziba" or "Zeba".
The theme song is also relatively good, and the singer "Shadow Mountain Hiroshi" has also sung many special songs and has also performed in China.
Synopsis:
The hellish people live in the deepest part of the earth, like to survive in the dark, damp and cold environment, dissatisfied with the light and brilliant peaceful life of the earthly people. The Hell Emperor Zeba, who originally looked like the Hell Monster Reishal II, descended on the Hell Empire, and was immediately supported by the Hell Elder Yakumas, the Hell Commander Baraba and other fierce generals as the supreme commander, ambitious, he decided to launch an invasion and expansion of the earthly realm with all his might, under the leadership of the Hibang Emperor, their purpose was to turn the earthly world into a dark world, so the light team covered the commander of the light team who knew this situation- Zi Sanshiro, looked around for five warriors all over Japan. As a result, he set up a posture racing team that galloped for speed and dreams, and set up a command center in a building in Tokyo, and the only way he trained the Light Team to defeat the Hell Empire was to increase their power beyond the limits of the human body, the so-called light energy, so that they could play and become true light warriors.
The villain cadre of this film, the sister of the Hell Prince Ikom, that is, Princess Ian, is pseudonymized as Meixu on the earth, because she fell in love with the leader of the masked light team, the red warrior Shangwu, was arrested by the hell monsters, closed in the cold and cold ice hell, and since then Shangwu has trained hard, joined hands with black, blue, yellow and pink warriors, heroically fighting fiercely with the forces of the Hell Empire, and the love between Shangwu and Princess Ian is like the iceberg snow lotus in the ice and snow, standing proudly and blooming openly. In the finale, Shangwu's love power melts the Ice Hell, rescues Princess Ian, defeats the forces of Hell, and restores peace to the Earthly Realm.
The film has been used by Aum Shinrikyo (a Japanese cult) to promote doctrine, for example, some believers have appropriated the theme song as a Shinto church song, especially the "floating in the air" picture of Chief Zi Sanro in the play, which is more often reminiscent of the so-called "Floating Photos of Fa Gong" published by its leader Matsumoto Tomoo (Shoko Asahara) in 1985 in the magazine "ムー" magazine (although other claims indicate that this photo was actually forged using camera shutter continuous shooting).
All in all, The Lights Team is a good classic Super Sentai series. Although the special effects are not as colorful as today, and the model trace scenes in some places are obviously matched, they are still full of memories.