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ThereвЂ™s a director named Takeshi Yagi, who directed Ultraman Cosmos. And then I wrote something for Ultraman Cosmos first. So he identified me and asked me to come over. KK: The first assistant director of Eko Eko Azarak was the assistant director for Ultraman Cosmos, and at that time they needed more scriptwriters. Considering the low budget and the efforts exerted by all the staff members and the cast, IвЂ™m pretty much satisfied with the finished product.Д«H: Moving ahead a bit, how did you get hired to direct Ultraman Max? So I was not particularly satisfied with the finished product in that sense, but I did my very best.

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KK: ItвЂ™s a difficult question! (laughs) Actually, we put (together) all the ideas of the writers for the TV seriesвЂ™ second season, and based on those ideas of those writers, I created the story, but because of the budget restrictions, I couldnвЂ™t put everything in it.

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Since I knew Shimako Sato, the director of Part I and Part II, and I also knew the producer of Part I and Part II, thatвЂ™s how I got started for Part III.Д«H: Overall, with the finished product of Eko Eko Azarak III, were you satisfied with how the movie turned out? Also, were there any ideas that you wanted to use that, for whatever reason, you couldnвЂ™t use? ThatвЂ™s how I got started in the film business. I was not a director but just a scriptwriter. So they ended up creating Part III of Eko Eko Azarak. The first thing he got involved in was the second season, which became popular. I came across a producer who got involved in Part I and Part II, so this producer came to me, saying that weвЂ™re planning to make it as a TV series. KK: Shimako Sato was the director for Part I and Part II, and sheвЂ™s very famous now for her work. Because you wrote Part III, so what was the process of writing the script, knowing that there had been two previous Eko Eko Azarak movies? That was the start of everything.Д«H: Actually, speaking of Eko Eko Azarak, please talk about that experience more - what it was like to write the script for the movie, what the process was like. The producer came to me and asked me to do the screenplay. KK: Do you know Eko Eko Azarak: Wizard of Darkness? ItвЂ™s not strictly film, but also V-cinema. That was how I got involved in the film business. It was a story I created for manga it was actually adopted for this video cinema. The budget was small, but probably equal to low-budget films. Thirty years ago, at that time, they put a lot of money into it. One of my works became a video movie, or V-cinema, which is not played in the theater, but for a direct-to-video release. IвЂ™ve been involved in this business for 20 years or so. So I became a scriptwriter, or story creator, of Japanese manga first. And then it should be followed by films if the manga stories are very interesting. The film industry was very slow, so we had to shift our gears toward manga instead of films. Thirty years ago, the film industry in Japan was declining dramatically at that point in time, so I wanted to boost it up again.

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I started at his school, free of charge, on a very private basis. Have you ever heard of Kozure Okami or Lone Wolf and Cub? Kazuo Koike is the writer of this story. Kengo Kaji: (in English) Long, long time ago! (laughs) IвЂ™ve been a film director for only 10 years. The interview is translated by Asako Kato.Д«rett Homenick: My first question is, how did you get started in the movie business? Kaji spoke with Brett Homenick in May 2012 about his TV and film career in the realm of kaiju and tokusatsu. Kaji co-screenwrote Eko Eko Azarak: Misa the Dark Angel (1998) and the recent splatter flick Tokyo Gore Police (2008).

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Kaji worked with celebrated tokusatsu innovator Keita Amemiya as a writer-director on the popular Garo series (2005-06). Kaji directed episodes of Ultraman Max (2005-06), Ultraman Mebius (2006-07), and Ultraseven X (2007), as well as Ultra Galaxy Mega Monster Battle: NEO (2008-09). However, itвЂ™s his involvement with Ultraman and other tokusatsu projects that fascinate kaiju fans on both sides of the Pacific. Kengo Kaji is one of JapanвЂ™s most prolific and celebrated writers of manga.