Spider-Man

You witness a terrorist group's sea monster sink oil tankers. But a masked hero appears to stop them. The tokusatsu effects are so over the top. The director seems to ask: what if Marvel, but make it make no sense?

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Koichi Takemoto directed Spider-Man in 1978. See Koichi Takemoto's full filmography, where to start with Koichi Takemoto, or where to go after you've seen everything by Koichi Takemoto.

Spider-Man was released in 1978 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 24 minutes.