| Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City | |||||
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| Director: | Takashi Miike | ||||
| Producer: | Akio Hattori Takashi Hirano Arimasa Okada Makoto Okada | ||||
| Starring: | Show Aikawa Riisa Naka Tsuyoshi Abe Masahiro Inoue Naoki Tanaka Guadalcanal Taka | ||||
| Music: | Yoshihiro Ike | ||||
| Cinematography: | Kazushige Tanaka | ||||
| Editing: | Kenji Yamashita | ||||
| Distributor: | Toei | ||||
| Runtime: | 106 minutes | ||||
| Country: | Japan | ||||
| Language: | Japanese | ||||
| Gross: | $1,270,219[1] | ||||
is the 2010 sequel to the 2004 film Zebraman. The film features Show Aikawa reprising his leading role from the original, and also stars Riisa Naka and Masahiro Inoue.[2] The film's tagline is . The film did poorly in Japanese box offices, which may be due to the film's theme of a religious war with the antagonists portrayed as analogies of the Happy Science movement in Japan.[3]
On November 29, 2011, Funimation released the film in the United States. The contents of the Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack contains movie in Japanese with English subtitles. The Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack contains Special Features and making-ofs.
By 2025, fifteen years after the events of Zebraman, Aihara Kozou has been elected governor of Tokyo, which then renamed itself Zebra City. It instituted "Zebra Time", a 5-minute period starting at 5:00 AM/PM during which all crime is legal and the government allows the Zebra Police to attack any and all presumed criminals. Once Zebra Time results in the attempted murder of Shinichi Ichikawa, also known as Zebraman. Shinichi, surviving the attack but having lost his memories, teams up with Shinpei (now a doctor) to save a mysterious little girl from Aihara Kouzou, Zebra Queen and her Zebra Police, and then the world from their ultimate plan to use the strange aliens from 2010 to bring Zebra Time to the whole world.
For the film, Riisa Naka as the Zebra Queen released a single titled on April 21, 2010, to serve as the film's theme song. A music video was also released featuring Naka in the character of Zebra Queen singing the song.[4] A music video was also recorded for the other song included on the single,, which is also used in the film's trailers. For the music videos and all performances of the song, Riisa has stated Zebra Queen has a Lady Gaga-like persona.[5]
A direct to video movie called was released on April 19, 2010, to promote the upcoming release of Zebraman 2. The story is set in 2024, one year before the events of the sequel, and focuses on the characters of the Zebra Mini-Skirt Police. The film also features Suzu Natsume as Sayuri Yuki, Shinji Kasahara as a rebel, Yasukaze Motomiya as Ogata, and Guadalcanal Taka as Kozou Aihara.