Thursday 14 May 2009

Tokusatsu in Review 05 - Kamen Rider J (1994)

Kamen Rider J...J for Jiant?

Kamen Rider J, the last of the movie rider, the last lead rider where Okamoto Jiro don the suit. The worst rider flick and the first (and only I insist, I hope, I pray) rider than can grow into giant Ultraman size.

Since ZO has nothing new to offer, I think the production crew has come to a bottleneck, and perhaps after a few packs of Marlboro and a dozen bottle of sake, some boo zoo suddenly said "Make him a giant, Ultra-Kamen!!!" Fuck~!

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The lead actor for human form...forgettable. The rider design, almost like ZO; maybe they took ZO design and just made some changes.

The bad guys, known as Fog Mother. Guess the writers have some row with their mum. Won't suggest this as a Mother's Day flick.

The evil mother, I mean Fog Mother.

Fog Mother has three hench dudes, a little too much for a 45 minutes flick. As like ZO, zero character development and almost no sincerity in production.

Evil Hench Dudes in human disguise and monsters.

Unlike multiform rider, giant rider obviously is suicide, as this concept never being explored again; unless you count the evil rider in Kiva's movie. But that is not Ultraman like giant, just bigger.

Nothing much to say, this is like a final nail to the coffin and there is no any new rider appeared in the 90s. Hence, the end of Dark Age for Kamen Rider franchise.

J and ZO later has a 8 minutes movie. Should have named the movie Kamen Rider Dumb and Dumber. Who approve such dumb designs anyway?

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