UNSOED Conferences, International Conference on Language, Linguistics, and Literature (COLALITE) 2020

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Reception of Tokusatsu Film in Japanese Culinary World
Santi Andayani

Last modified: 2020-10-19

Abstract


The popularity of the tokusatsu (superhero) series and its franchise takes part in influencing the Japanese culinary world. One of them is the company Nissin Foods which uses the character of tokusatsu to promote one of its ramen noodles products known as UFO Kamen Yakisoban. In fact, the popularity of these advertisements were made into film with several series. Beside this film, the tokusatsu character also appeared in the Udon film. Inspired by his love for the tokusatsu character when he was child, the main character created the tokusatsu character which he called it as Captain Udon to introduce udon noodles to Japanese society through an advertising magazine where he worked. The merging of the theme between the world of tokusatsu and the culinary world has created a parody of the tokusatsu film. The reading of film directors in the reception of culinary-themed tokusatsu films will be the aim of this research. This research  used reception theory and descriptive analysis method. The results of this study indicated that although the UFO film Kamen Yakisoban and Captain Udon are parody of tokusatsu films especially from the Kamen Rider film, but the influence of other types of tokusatsu characters is also illustrated in both characters. The parody of the two tokusatsu films was found in costume designs, weapons, kick style, romantic stories, and tokusatsu enemy characters.


Keywords


Parody, Reception, Tokusatsu, Capten Udon, UFO Kamen Yakisoban,