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Kamen Raida - Kyuketsu Kaijin Gebakondoru
episode 11 / Kamen Rider - Bloodsucking Monster Gebacondor
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, Jiro Chiba (= Jiro Yabuki), Rumi Katsura, Goro Naya (voice), Jo Honda, Isao Yatsu, Kinji Takinami, Tomonori Yazaki, Shinji Nakae (voice)
written by Takao Nagaishi, 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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Shocker's
latest monster, Gebacondor (Isao Yatsu), is a combination of all
that was useful in previous monsters, but it still needs the blood
of women as its lifesource. So Shocker set up a wedding chapel,
knock out the prospective husbands and drain the prospective
brides of their blood. This has been going on for a while when
Takeshi's (Hiroshi Fujioka) good friend and rival on the race track Kazuya
(Jiro Chiba) decides to marry his sweetheart Yoko (Rumi Katsura) - at
exactly the Shocker-controlled chapel. Now Takeshi doesn't come to the
wedding, but his whole entourage does, so Shocker don't attack in the
chapel, but Gebacondor flies after the newlyweds and eventually steals the
bride right out of Takeshi's bike's sidecar. In his guise as the
grashopper-like Kamen Rider, Takeshi comes to the rescue of course. Based
on this experience, Takeshi's mentor Tachibana (Akiji Kobayashi) figures
there's something odd going on at the chapel and sets up a sham wedding to
lure Gebacondor out into the open. It works of course, and ultimately
Kamen Rider throws Gebacondor so hard that the monster just explodes. A
kind of weird episode since it features very little of Hiroshi Fujioka,
the series' lead, and he's even left out of scenes normally centered
around him, while series-newby Jiro Yabuki pretty much takes center stage.
This is of course due to a motorbike accident that forced Fujioka to take
a break from the show altogether, leaving the role of Kamen Rider to
Takeshi Sasaki. So by transferring the lead to Yabuki was pretty much a
workaround - but other than it seems odd it doesn't make the episode any
better or worse, it's just an amusingly simplistic story with horror
undercurrents and a pretty silly looking monster, nothing special but
nostalgic genre fun at least.
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