Ultraman Taro: The Blood-sucking Flower is a Young Girl's Spirit

Japan Release: 1974
Running Time:
25 minutes

Ultraman Taro: The Blood-Sucking Flower is a Young Girl's Spirit


Japanese Title

ウルトラマンタロウ血を吸う花は少女の精
[Urutoraman Taro Chiwosuu Hana wa Shojo no Sei]

Distributor: Production:

Toho
Tsuburaya Productions / TBS

A string of murder cases brings ZAT into the investigation, who only know the victims are being completely drained of their blood. During the search, they come across a young girl named Kanae who's almost hit by oncoming traffic. Eventually, she's brought home after discovering she had only recently been adopted, parting ways. When the vines of the flowers start spreading and attacking exponentially, Kotaro and Kitajima find the source of the problem–a tomb dedicated to the orphans who died, and with that the ivy monster Basara. With the culprit identified, ZAT and Ultraman Taro must team up to defeat the plant-based vampire...

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Titles

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Alternate Titles

Ultraman Taro: The Blood-Sucking Flower is a Young Girl's Spirit
[Literal translation]

 


Monsters

Ultraman Taro
Ultraman Taro
Basara
Basara



Aliens, SDF & Misc.

ZAT Sky Whale
ZAT Sky Whale
Rabbit Panda
Rabbit Panda
Wolf 777
Wolf 777

Staff

Cast

Produced by Ken Kumagai, Yoji Hashimoto
Director Eizo Yamagiwa
Writing credits Megumi Kido
Music by Masanobu Higurashi
Director of Special Effects Takashi Ohira
Kotaro Higashi Saburo Shinoda
Shuhei Aragaki, ZAT Vice Captain Takahiko Tono
Tadao Nanbara Toyoyuki Kimura
Jiro Nishida Kiyotaka Mitsugi
Izumi Moriyama Kiyoko Matsuya
Tetsuya Kitajima Hidesuke Tsumura
Takashi Ueno Akihiko Nishijima
Kanae Iwatsubo Terumi Shimono
Mrs. Iwatsubo Masayo Banri
Kenichi Shiratori Shinya Saito
Saori Shiratori Mayumi Asaka
Narrator Tetsuro Sagawa

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Background and Trivia

  • Featured as part of the Toho Champion Festival during the spring of 1974, featured alongside Hello! Finger 5, Alpine Girl Heidi, Samurai Giants: Lethal Kawahara's Duel, Neo-Human Casshan, and Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974). This would be the final lineup of Ultra-related content for the Champion program.
  • Footage is standard ratio blow-up of Episode 11, "The Blood-Sucking Flower is a Young Girl's Spirit".