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Kamen Raida - Soratobu Kaijin Musasabidoru
episode 23 / Kamen Rider - Sky-Flying Monster Musasabedol
Japan 1971
produced by Seiji Abe, Toru Hirayama for Ishinomori Productions, Toei/TV Asahi
directed by Itaru Orita
starring Takeshi Sasaki, Akiji Kobayashi, Jiro Chiba (= Jiro Yabuki), Linda Yamamoto, Wakako Oki, Yoko Shimada, Yasuharu Miura, Hajime Izu, Sakyo Mikami, Mahito Tsujimura, and the voices of Shun Yashiro, Goro Naya, Shinji Nakae
written by Masayuki Shimada, 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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Doctor Osumi (Hajime Izu) and his team have just developed a fuel so
powerful a small amount of it could take a rocket ship to Mars. But evil
organisation Shocker's of course interested in this fuel because the same
amount could also obliterate all of Sapporo. So Shocker sends flying
squirrel monster Musasabidol (Mahito Tsujimura) over to Osumi's lab to
steal the fuel. But fortunately, Kamen Rider (Takeshi Sasaki) is on hand
to take the fuel right back. Doc Osumi now decides to destroy the fuel,
deeming it to dangerous in the wrong hands, and he requests special
equipment from the radiology institute to do just that. But the man from
the radiology institute is intercepted, and in his stead two Shocker
agents show up, steal the formula again and try to throw Kamen Rider off
course by during their getaway secretly passing the fuel on to
Musasabedol. But Kamen Rider has put a tracker on the fuel container and
doesn't fall for Shocker's ruse. Of course, Kamen Rider's boss (Akiji
Kobayashi), his friends (Linda Yamamoto, Wakako Oki, Yasuharu Miura) and
befriended FBI agent Kazuya (Jiro Yabuki) all show up to help out but by
and large make the situation only all the worse, but ultimately
Musasabedol trips and falls onto the fuel container and is blown to
Kingdom Come three times over. The monster of the week in this
episode, a squirrel like monster that uses slipstream to rotate his
enemies is funny for all the wrong reasons, for one it's pretty cute, and
for the other the whole slipstream thing just looks hilarious in
execution. Apart from that though this episode hasn't got much special to
offer, it's mostly your routine to and fro with the occasional fight
scenes that involve plenty of summersaults but not that many acrobatics
beyond that. Amusing still, especially for nostalgic reasons, just not
really memorable.
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