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I Feel (Un)Seen - The Invisible Avenger/Tomei Ningen (1954)

 Happy Thursday, everyone!  Sorry about the lateness on this one but work caught up with me.  As we continue on our adapttaions of The Invisible Man , this week is the second Japanese adaptation in a row, The Invisible Avenger .   The movie literally opens up with an invisible man being struck by a car and appearing as he dies and surprise , he's part of a group of Japanese commandos who were turned invisible by a ray so they could be better soldiers.  How do we know this?  Oh, because the government immediately tells everyone about it and says hey, there's one more invisible guy out there so...keep a look out for him?  Which is such a weird thing to happen in any government that I actually rewound to make sure I had heard correctly.  Nanjo, the remaining invisible man, has been disguising himself as a clown because no one questions them wearing greasepaint all the time (a touch I really appreciated) and working the streets while he also befr...