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Kamen Raida - Tokageron to Kaijin Dai Gundan
episode 13 / Kamen Rider - Tokageron and the Big Monster Army
Japan 1971
produced by Seiji Abe, Toru Hirayama for Ishinomori Productions, Toei/TV Asahi
directed by Hidetoshi Kitamura
starring Hiroshi Fujioka, Akiji Kobayashi, Chieko Morikawa, Yoko Shimada, Jiro Chiba (= Jiro Yabuki), Jo Honda, Shinzo Hotta, Sachio Fujino, and the voices of Goro Naya, Osamu Ichikawa, Eken Mine, Susumu Mizushima, Bunya Nakamura, Shinji Nakae
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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Evil organisation want to break into the Tokyo Atomic Energy Research
Labatory to expose the whole city to nuclear radiation, but the lab is
guarded by an energy barrier that can only be destroyed by throwing an
object weighing about half a ton against it, but unfortunately none of
Shocker's cyborgs can throw that heavy an object. So Shocker kidnap cocky
soccer player Nomoto (Shinzo Hotta) and turn him into Tokageron, a dragon
powerful enough to throw really heavy objects. Soon enough, he faces hero
Kamen Rider (Hiroshi Fujioka) for the first time - and defeats him. That's
much to the dismay of Kazuya (Jiro Chiba), a friend of his and ally in the
fight against Shocker - and as is revealed in this episode also FBI
undercover agent. So Kazuya decides to take on Shocker on his own. But
Kamen Rider, with the help of his coach Tachibana (Akiji Kobayashi) learns
how to kick really heavy objects, and once he has mastered this he first
saves Kazuya, then goes against Tokageron, who's already preparing to
break the atomic lab's barrier, to use his kicking technique against him
and ultimately of course defeats him.
What's good fun about this episode is that it features pretty much all
of the series' rogue gallery so far in supporting roles, so many of the
bizarre and often whacky monsters of past episodes make at least a walk on
appearance here. And there's a nice atmospheric scene in this one where
Kazuya breaks into the (unguarded) headquarters of Shocker to find them
all in suspended animation. That aside, it's pretty much business as
usual, but some hokey fun at least.
On a sidenote, due to an injury Hiroshi Fujioka once again features
hardly at all in this episode, rather only whoever stuntman's in the Kamen
Rider outfit, and not even a half decent explanation is made to explain
his absence from all but the action scenes. Fujioka would of course before
long sit out quite a junk of the series altogether.
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