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Kamen Raida - Kaigyojin Amazonia
episode 22 / Kamen Rider - Suspicious Merman Amazonia
Japan 1971
produced by Seiji Abe, Toru Hirayama for Ishinomori Productions, Toei/TV Asahi
directed by Minoru Yamada
starring Takeshi Sasaki, Akiji Kobayashi, Jiro Chiba (= Jiro Yabuki), Linda Yamamoto, Wakako Oki, Yoko Shimada, Yasuharu Miura, Masako Mizuki, Hiroko Saito, Shinzaburo Sugiura, and the voices of Shun Yashiro, Goro Naya, Shinji Nakae
written by Masahiro Tsukada, 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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Several swimmers disappear from pools or even the open sea without a
trace, including Noboru (Shinzaburo Sugiura), brother of little Miyuki
(Hiroko Saito), who's somehow found by Tachibana's (Akiji Kobayashi)
motorcycle club who are vacationing in the area. Taki (Jiro Chiba), an FBI
man somehow associated with the club, and his colleague Erina (Masako
Mizuki) go on a diving trip - and are promptly captured by evil
organisation Shocker and their monster of the week Amazonia (voiced by
Shun Yashiro) and imprisoned in their underwater base where they also mine
uranium. Taki and Erina are kept as bait for Kamen Rider (Takeshi Sasaki),
who promptly shows up to free his friends, but Amazonia turns the oxygen
levels in the building down to a third to tire his opponents out. But
Kamen Rider quickly figures out where the switch to turn the oxygen up
again is, and with enough air to breathe, apparently Amazonia and the
Shocker soldiers are no match for Kamen Rider, Taki and Erina, so they
make a tactical retreat. Back on land, after Kamen Rider has freed Noboru,
Amazonia challenges Kamen Rider to a final duel - and Amazonia proves to
be no match for the Rider's mighty kick, and he ultimately explodes when
hitting the water surface, and so, for some reason, does the Shocker base.
Now even if the underwater fights aren't exactly well-staged,
some aquatic action sure brings some much-needed change to the show,
especially since the story of this episode is rather overly simplistic and
too straightforward for even a kiddie show. That said, of course this
episode is still fun if watched from a nostalgic perspective, but good TV
it's not.
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