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You probably can’t name the president who made the Transformers possible but you know every character by name. That’s how the 1980s toy industry worked. It didn’t sell products. It colonized the imagination of an entire generation of children whose parents spent money they didn’t necessarily have because the urgency felt medical. Some of these…

In the opening scene of Human Vapor, the first collaboration between Netflix and historic Japanese company Toho, Korean showrunner Yeon Sang-ho and Japanese director Shinzo Katayama deftly establish how science-fiction has scaled up since 1960, the release year of the original The Human Vapor film.