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Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

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Tokusatsu

is a Japanese term that applies to any live-action film or television drama that usually features superheroes and makes considerable use of special effects ....

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Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 series. A Kyodai Hero

Kyodai Hero

A is a Japanese tokusatsu superhero who is able to grow to immense heights to fight giant monsters. Such heroes include Osamu Tezuka's Ambassador Magma and Eiji Tsuburaya's Ultraman and other heroes of the Ultra Series.-Heroes:...

 programme, it features the titular hero growing to immense size and fighting similarly sized monsters

Kaiju

is a Japanese word that means "strange beast," but often translated in English as "monster". Specifically, it is used to refer to a genre of tokusatsu entertainment....

. Originally broadcast as 138 five-minute segments as part of the children's variety show

Variety show

A variety show, also known as variety arts or variety entertainment, is an entertainment made up of a variety of acts, especially musical performances and sketch comedy, and normally introduced by a compère or host. Other types of acts include magic, animal and circus acts, acrobatics, juggling...

 Ohayo! Kodomo Show on Nihon TV, it was produced by Tsuburaya Productions

Tsuburaya Productions

is a Japanese special effects studio founded in 1963 by special effects wizard Eiji Tsuburaya and was run by his family, until October 2007, when the family sold the company to advertising agency TYO Inc. The studio is best known for producing the original Ultraman TV series, as well as the Ultra...

. Redman was initially aired between April 3, 1972 to September 8 of that same year. It is similar in many ways to the most famous of Kyodai Hero series', the Ultra Series

Ultra Series

The is the collective name for all the shows produced by Tsuburaya Productions featuring Ultraman, his many brethren, and the myriad Ultra Monsters. The Ultra Series is one of the prominent tokusatsu superhero genre productions from Japan, along with Toei produced series Kamen Rider, Super...

; indeed, all enemy monsters featured were re-used from programmes produced as part of that franchise.