What if Batman was a drunk, horny disaster in Tokyo? This exists.
Documentary from 2010 on the everyday life of one of Japan's blue collar superheroes, the infamous Gun Caliber. An uncouth, lecherous and intoxicated persona non-grata who patrols the streets of Tokyo yet
Direction
Bueno's committed guerrilla filming in actual Tokyo streets.
Costume
Gun Caliber's deliberately janky suit sells the parody.
Writing
Improvised dialogue blurs documentary and fiction perfectly.
Director
Bueno
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gun Caliber emerged from Japan's indie tokusatsu scene, where fans create low-budget homages to Super Sentai and Kamen Rider series. The 2010s saw an explosion of these 'garage hero' projects online.
Bueno (real name withheld) built an entire expanded universe of Gun Caliber films, making this 'documentary' part of a larger metafictional joke about a 'real' superhero that spans over a decade of shorts and features.
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