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Kamen Raida - Yomigaeru Kobura Otoko
episode 10 / Kamen Rider - The Revived Cobra Man / Kamen Rider - The Reborn Cobra Man
Japan 1971
produced by Seiji Abe, Toru Hirayama for Ishinomori Productions, Toei/TV Asahi
directed by Minoru Yamada
starring Hiroshi Fujioka, Akiji Kobayashi, Chieko Morikawa, Yoko Shimada, Goro Naya (voice), Jo Honda, Susumu Mizushima (voice), Shigeko Arai, Koen Okumura, Naoyuki Tsuji, Tetsuya Yamaoka, Shinji Nakae (voice)
written by Katsuhiko Taguchi, 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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Little Toru's (Naoyuki Tsuji) dog has gone missing, and it's suspected
it has been stolen and sold to a local biotech institute that offers top
prices for cats and dogs. Thing is, everybody who has brought their cats
and dogs to the institute has gone missing - enough for Toru's father,
inspector Koga (Koen Okumura) to investigate. But then he himself is
captured, because the institute is actually run by evil organisation
Shocker, and the blood of the collected cats and dogs is needed by Shocker
scientist Ritsuko (Shigeko Arai) to revive Cobra Man (voiced by
Susumu Mizushima), who got blown to bits and pieces only last
episode. And all the pet owners are used as raw material for
Shocker's cyborgs or test subjects for Cobra Man's new weaponry - he's now
spitting fire from his mouth. Inspector Koga is up on the list to be
burned to the crisp by Cobra Man, but little Toru has seen his father led
away by Shocker and has informed his friend Takeshi (Hiroshi Fujioka),
who's of course secretly cyborg hero Kamen Rider, and he soon makes an
attack on Shocker's testing site and manages to save the inspector, even
if only after his one side is already severely burned. Shocker leader (voiced by Goro Naya)
tells Cobra Man to burn Ritsuko to death as she's no longer needed, then
gives him his new orders, to attack a ship that's to ship a large portion
of Japan's gold supply out of the country. Takeshi gets wind of Shocker's
plans, and he tries to tell inspector Koga, who is, what a coincidence,
responsible for the gold shipment, but Shocker's an organisation that's so
secret not even the gouvernment knows about it, and somehow they have made
their way onto the ship, have made it right into the safe to steal the
gold, then sink the ship. But Kamen Rider's already on the job, and he
beats all the Shocker minions to a pulp, pushes Cobra Man into the sea
which for some reason makes him explode, and returns the gold to the
police's care without anybody even knowing about his involvement.
Pretty brutal considering this was basically a kiddie show, as several
people are burnt to death, which is shown at least in some graphic detail.
Apart from that though nothing special, even Cobra Man himself isn't quite
as amusing as he was last
episode. Still silly, campy, nostalgic fun, but nothing beyond
that.
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