Product Details

• Actors: Various
• Directors: Various
• Format: Box set, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 3
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Mill Creek Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: March 9, 2010
• Run Time: 720 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00310PSTY
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #105,486 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Iron King is one of the gloriously loopy Tokusastu Japanese superhero television shows. Filled with furious, fast-paced action and campy humor, Iron King quickly became a favorite in its native Japan when originally broadcast from 1972-1973 by combining robots, martial arts, and creatures in ways uniquely Japanese.

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Subtitles go out of sync, June 5, 2010

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Brother Bish - See all my reviews

This review is from: Iron King: The Complete Series (DVD)

I own both the BCI version and Mill Creek version of the Iron King DVD's. If you can find a copy of the BCI release I would highly recommend getting that version over the Mill Creek release. BCI is now out of business so those discs are harder to find. My reason is that the Mill Creek version is a very shoddy cheap re-release of the BCI version. The episodes are crammed onto 3 DVD's rather than the 4 dvd's in the BCI version. Normally this would not be a big deal only meaning higher compression artifacts and lower image quality however somewhere in the process Mill Creek screwed up the subtitles so that as you are watching the show they start to go out of sync with the voices. It eventually gets to the point where subtitles are appearing on the screen when there is no voice to go along with it. It's very annoying and makes watching the episodes much more difficult as you don't always know which subtitle goes with which speaker. From the price it's obvious Mill Creek's are a budget release but in my opinion it's worth the effort to find the original BCI release even if it costs a little more.

(The Mill Creek release of Super Robot Red Baron has the same issue)

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Guilty Pleasure., June 1, 2011

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Gojifan58 - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Iron King: The Complete Series (DVD)

This is a series I had never even heard of before proved so bad and so cheaply done that it proved highly entertaining and forced me to create what I call the "Saki-Rating" - as in " how many bottles were drunk when the evil robots and creatures were designed. Most I would rate a "6" with some closing in on "10", one robot would qualify for Handicaped-Parking. I spent most of my time laughing in evil delight when Iron King would first encounter his foe, and unlike the "expensively" produced Ultraman, this poor guy often gets his rear handed to him the first time they face. When the show is concentrating on things at the human scale you have the two heroes bouncing between goofball to serious, while the evil-doers are fairly cookie-cutter, and not all that bright.

The series is sub-titled in English, and sometimes I don't think the translations were quite literal. About the only thing that annoyed me was the theme music, also played most of the time Iron King appeared, getting stuck in my head. Packaging is good, with each of the three disks in it's own sleave in a sturdy case.

If high production values, creative writing, and great special effects are your thing, you may want to pass. But if you recognise that sometimes "bad" has it's own charming qualities, this is a must for your collection at a bargain price.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Iron King.........., May 30, 2010

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blackaciddevil (in the USA somewhere.....) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Iron King: The Complete Series (DVD)

As the product description suggests, Iron King is a gloriously loopy Tokusastu Japanese superhero television show. It's filled with furious fast-paced action and campy humor. Brought to you by rhe same team that brought you Ultraman and Super Robot Red Baron, Iron King aired on the Tokyo Broadcasting System from October 8, 1972 to April 8, 1973, with a total of 26 episodes. It's about Gentaro Shizuka (Shoji Ishibashi), best described as a singing cowboy, and Goro Kirishima(Mitsuo Hamada)to stop The Shiranui clan who've planned to conquer Japan for over 2000 years for banishing them from the country by The Yamato clan. Each member of the S-clan controls a gigantic robot warrior in order to overthrow the Yamato Clan. It's not Gentaro but Goro who has the power to become Iron King by touching the medals on his Turning Hat, and shouting "Iron Shock!" when danger comes around. Transforming into Iron King quickly dehydrates Goro and he can only remain as Iron King for a short period of time so this cause problems but it's a good plot point. At the tenth episode, the S-clan is no more but a new group fills that gap called the Phantom Militia. Then, later on- Iron King battles the Titanians who can assume insect-like monster forms.

Fans of Ultraman, Red Baron, Kamen Rider, The Super Inframan, and others will love this show. I rather enjoyed it myself as it's in the tradition of Godzilla and all these other programs I've mentioned.