Everymorning wearing a set of blue overalls and a pair of waterproofboots, he will play taijiquan before his cows.

His riding suit was torn to shreds, like somebody who'd been in a comedy explosion in a fireworks factory.

When it first aired in Japan in 1966, the Ultraman TV series was a hit – despite its *cheesy performances and cliched storylines, which involved men in *spandex suits fighting hokey-looking monsters.