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Kamen Raida - Kaijin Sasori Otoko
episode 3 / Kamen Rider - Monster, Scorpion Man / Kamen Rider - The Monstrous Scorpion Man
Japan 1971
produced by Seiji Abe, Toru Hirayama for Ishinomori Productions, Toei/TV Asahi
directed by Koichi Takemoto
starring Hiroshi Fujioka, Akiji Kobayashi, Chieko Morikawa, Yoko Shimada, Goro Naya (voice), Michihiro Ikemizu (voice), Yoichiro Mikawa, Kenji Nagisa, Shinji Nakae (voice)
written by Masaru Igami, created by Shotaro Ishinomori, music by Shunsuke Kikuchi
TV-series Kamen Rider, Kamen Rider (original TV show)
review by Mike Haberfelner
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The evil Shocker organisation has its own way to deal with members who
have fallen out of favour, it releases them on a piece of desert, then
releases "man-eating" scorpions on them that spew acid on them
to annihilate them. Only one old man (Yohichiro Mikawa) survives, but not
by mistake but design, as Shocker want to use him as bait for cyborg
superhero Kamen Rider (Hiroshi Fujioka) - who sure enough arrives before long to save the
old man from being re-kidnapped by Shocker minions. Kamen Rider is soon
joined by Ruriko (Chieko Morikawa), his adversary turned assistant, and
his good friend and rival bike racer Goro - but they all fail protecting
the old man when Shocker releases scores of scorpions, of both the common
and the man-eating type onto the apartment they've taken up residence, and
he's disintegrated by acid while Ruriko is taken captive. However, Kamen
Rider and Goro manage to break into Shocker headquarters rather
effortlessly - when Shocker's trap springs and Goro turns out to have
turned to the dark side, and he's actually Scorpion Man - and in the form
of a human-sized scorpion mutant he and some Shocker minions give Kamen
Rider a good fight - but of course everything ends happily ... A
pretty violent episode of Kamen Rider, with quite a few
deaths by acid, and the mass-execution at the beginning being almost
disturbing. Other than that, this entry is quite atmospheric and creepy
(for a '70s Japanese superhero TV show that is) and in some cases almost
experimental (like when the camera's turned upside down during some fight
scenes), making this one a rather unusual but very likeable affair -
within genre limitations that is.
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