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Kamen Raida - Hitokui Sarasenian
episode 4 / Kamen Rider - The Man-Eating Sarracenian
Japan 1971
produced by Seiji Abe, Toru Hirayama for Ishinomori Productions, Toei/TV Asahi
directed by Itaru Orita
starring Hiroshi Fujioka, Akiji Kobayashi, Chieko Morikawa, Yoko Shimada, Goro Naya (voice), Tetsuya Kaji (voice), Yoshihide Goto, Jo Honda, Masashi Ishibashi, Yukiko Shino (= Kiyomi Ota), Shinji Nakae (voice)
written by Shinichi Ichikawa, 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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When young Kenji (Yoshihide Goto) and his older sister Yukie (Yukiko
Shino) visit the botanical garden, Yukie is attacked by a flesh eating
plant - that's of course the Shocker mutant Sarracenian - and dragged
underground. But when Kenji wants to report this, everyone thinks the
story of the boy is just too wild to be true, and no proper search for the
girl is even conducted - very much to the despair of Kenji, since he's an
orphan and his sister was all he had. Fortunately Takeshi Hongo gets wind
of the story before long, and Takeshi is of course secretly cyborg
superhero Kamen Rider, who knows how the evil organisation Shocker works,
probably better than anyone. So the next time he's attacked by Shocker
minions, he takes one of them captive and forces the location of their
hide-out out of him. Then he attacks the place and frees Yukie, who was
already being prepared to be turned into some mutant monster. The
Sarracenian though is not in, he's been sent to kill the minion Kamen
Rider has captured - and quite probably also Kamen Rider's friends and
Kenji, who were to guard the man. Everything ends happily though ... A
very routine episode that might score high on the nostalgia scale but
really the only aspect that sets it apart from scores of very similar
formulaic episodes from scores of similar TV series is that the
Sarracenian and for some reason also all of his henchmen cackle during all
their scenes as if they wanted to give Beavis and Butthead a
run for their money. So yeah, that's actually quite a bit amusing, but
little beyond that.
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