The Invisible Avenger

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***The Invisible Avenger***, released in Japan as ***Tōmei ningen***  (透明人間?, lit. Invisible Man), is a 1954 Japanese ***Tokusatsu*** film directed by Motoyoshi Oda, based on the 1897 novel *The Invisible Man*. it was released to Japanese theaters December 29, 1954.

## Synopsis

### Summary

A car strikes an unseen object; blood spreads from an invisible source which becomes visible as the bleeding man dies. He carries with him a suicide note dedicated to his only friend, who is also an invisible man. An eager young reporter tracks down Takemitsu Nanjo, a war veteran who makes his living visibly, painting his face like a clown’s and carrying advertising signs. His favorite neighbor is a little blind girl whose mother is running afoul of local gangsters. The gangsters have been terrorizing the city as “the invisible gang,” wrapping themselves up in scarves and trenchcoats so as to be visible to their victims, even though they are supposed to be invisible underneath. Once they discover Nanjo, who is defending his only friends, they beat him and leave him for dead.

### Plot

At Ginza 4-chome, a surviving carcass of a special unit of the former Japanese army, the "Invisible Human Commander ," was found along with a will. The suicide note reveals that there is at least one surviving survivor. When this case was reported, there were frequent robbery cases by gang groups calling themselves "transparent". On the other hand, cabaret in the "black ships" sandwich man of clown is Nanjo that acts as a "blind girl Mari living in the same apartment blonde Jenny of" music box had a promise to buy. Komatsu, a newspaper reporter who has been investigating invisible humans since he encountered his first suicide, looks at Nanjo who was visiting an attacked jewelry store. Komatsu gets into a room in Nanjo and sees an amazing sight there. The reason Nanjo is always dressed as a clown-because he is another invisible man. Nanjo started his own investigation with the help of Komatsu in order to reveal his identity and uncover the identity of the gang group who had killed Marino's grandfather. Eventually, the investigation of the two people revealed that the gangster's behind-the-scenes was in the "Black Ship."

## Cast

* Kiyosaburo Kawazu as Nanjo
* Miki Sanjo as Michiyo
* Uemura Kenjiro as Ken

## Staff

* Production: Takeo Kita
* Original plan: Beppu Kei
* Script: Shigeaki Hidaka
* Art: Teruaki Abe
* Recording: Shoichi Fujinawa
* Lighting: Kuichiro Kishida
* Music: Kyosuke Kami
* Director Assistant: Teruo Maru
* Edit: Shuichi Anbara
* Special Technology: Toho Engineering Department
	+ Optical photography: Shuzaburo Araki \*No credit notation
	+ Art (special effects): Yasuyuki Inoue \*No credit notation
	+ Synthesis: Takao Yuki  \*No credit notation
	+ Photography assistant (SFX): sadamasa arikawa , Tomioka Motokei , Yoichi Noda true , Yukio Kabashima ※ No credit notation
* Development: Toho Developer
* Producer: Tatsuo Kuroda

* Shooting/special skill guidance: Eiji Tsuburaya
* Director: Motoyoshi Oda

## Production

Eiji Tsuburaya's guidance has been used to describe transparent humans, including various techniques such as optical synthesis. In the scene where Nanjo throws and plays things transparent, the piano wire is used, and in the scene where Nanjo becomes transparent when the paint of the face is dropped, the background is composited to the place where it turned black by painting black ink. , Used respectively  . Also, in the scene where Nanjo rides on a rabbit scooter and follows Yajima, casters are attached to the vehicle body so that he can not fall over and run unattended.

## Release

***The Invisible Man*** was distributed in Japan by Toho on December 29, 1954. Any release of the film in the United States is undetermined.

Daiei Film produced two similar films featuring invisibility, *Tomei ningen arawaru* (*The Transparent Man Appears*) in 1949, and *Tomei ningen to Hai-Otoko* (*Transparent Man vs the Fly-Man*) in 1957.

## References

This is a list of references for **The Invisible Avenger**. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]

1. ↑ godzilla.fandom
2. ↑ godzilla.fandom
3. ↑ *japan-society*invisible-man
4. ↑ *wikizilla/Invisible\_Man\_(film)*
5. ↑ godzilla.fandom
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 The Invisible Avenger - Letterboxd.
7. ↑ The Invisible Avenger - Wikipedia.
8. ↑ The Invisible Avenger - IMDB.
9. ↑  The Invisible Man on The Japanese Wikipedia
10. ↑ The Invisible man on The Chinese Wikipedia
11. ↑ The Invisible Man on Japanese Movies Wiki Fandom

## Gallery

Main article: The Invisible Avenger/Gallery

**Japanese**
**Invisible Man Appears* (1949) · *The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly* · ***The Invisible Avenger*** (1954) · *Invisible Man: Rape!* · Oh! Invisible Man · *Oh! Invisible Man – Invisible Girl Appears!?* · *Invisible Demon* · *The Invisible Swordsman* ·*
**Other**
*Invisible Avenger* · *Invisible Invader* · *Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare* · *Yokai Monsters: Along With Ghosts* · *Kujira Gami* · *Memoirs of an Invisible Man* · *The Invisible Man* (1984) · *The Invisible Man* (1977) · *Dr. Jekyll Meets the Invisible Man* (1977) · *The Human Vapor* · *The Secret of the Telegian* · *The H-Man* · *The Fly* (1958) · *The Invisible Woman* (1969) · *The Amazing Transparent Man* · *Fear the Invisible Man* · *The Invisible Witness* · *The Invisible Man* (2016) · *The Invisible Maniac* · *The Invisible Man* (2017) · *The Invisible Man* (2018) · *Invisible Man* (2018) · *Mad Monster Party* (1967) · *Strangler of the Swamp* · *The Invisible Man Attacks* · *The Incredible Shrinking Man* · *The Astral Factor* · *Attack of the 50 Foot Woman*