Takeshi Hongo is a man of extraordinary intellect, but his promising future is about to be maliciously snuffed out by and evil secret society known as Shocker. Reinvented against his will and transformed into a powerful experimental cyborg, Hongo will forever be known as Kamen Rider The First.
Practical Effects
Suit actors bringing painful weight to every punch
Cinematography
Rain-soaked Tokyo nights that reek of beautiful decay
Costume
Redesigned suits that honor 1971 while looking genuinely militarized
Director
Takao Nagaishi
Masaya Kikawada
Takeshi Hongo / Kamen Rider #1
Hassei Takano
Hayato Ichimonji / Kamen Rider #2
Rena Komine
Asuka Midorikawa
Hiroshi Miyauchi
Tobei Tachibana
Eiji Wentz
Haruhiko Mitamura
Ryoko Kobayashi
Miyoko Harada
Mayumi Sada
Shocker Staff: Lady
Hideyo Amamoto
Dr. Shinigami
Eiji Maruyama
Dr. Shinigami (voice)
Itsuji Itao
Spider
Kanji Tsuda
Bat
Renji Ishibashi
Member of the House of Representatives
Hirotaro Honda
The Private Secretary
Hitomi Nakahodo
Megumi
Hiroshi Kamiya
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This reboot arrived during Japan's 2005 tokusatsu revival, when gritty reimaginings of 70s heroes became a trend. It deliberately rejects the camp of later Kamen Rider decades.
Hiroshi Miyauchi, who plays mentor Tobei Tachibana, was the original Kamen Rider V3 in 1973. His casting bridges 32 years of franchise history.
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