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Kamen Raida - Hi o Fuku Kemushi Kaijin Dokuganda
episode 20 / Kamen Rider - Fire-Breathing Caterpillar Monster: Dokugander
Japan 1971
produced by Seiji Abe, Toru Hirayama for Ishinomori Productions, Toei/TV Asahi
directed by Minoru Yamada
starring Takeshi Sasaki, Akiji Kobayashi, Linda Yamamoto, Wakako Oki, Katsumi Nakajima, Yoko Shimada, Takeshi Osaka, Joji Tsurumi, Kosuke Nono, and the voices of Mahito Tsujimura, Shinji Nakae
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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Hayato (Takeshi Sasaki), the boss of his motorcycle club Tachibana
(Akiji Kobayashi), employee of the club Hiromi (Yoko Shimada) and the
Rider Girls (Linda Yamoto, Wakako Oki, Katsumi Nakajima) take a trip to
the mountains on their bikes, and soon enough the girls are on a hike of
their own and find a small village where the locals flee their homes in a
mass exodus. Apparently a man-sized caterpillar is roaming the
neighbourhood, so the girls go exploring in no time, but are ultimately
lured into a trap by an agent of evil organisation Shocker (Takeshi
Osaka), who eventually turns out to be the man-sized caterpillar, called
Dokugander, himself in human form. Hayato and Tachibana soon go searching
for the girls, helped by Yoshioka (Joji Tsurumi), a scientist looking for
his teacher, Professor Koizumi (Kosuke Nono), who unbeknown to him, has
been killed by Dokugander earlier. Tachibana is soon captured by Shocker
agents as well, but he drops a homing device for Hayato to find, and as
soon as that's accomplished, Hayato in his Kamen Rider persona storms
Shocker headquarters - where Dokugander is already preparing the execution
of his friends. But as always, Kamen Rider can pretty much single-handedly
defeat the Shocker army, blow up Shocker headquarters, and teach
Dokugander a lesson. Dokugander only barely escapes and is last seen in
his cocooned state floating down the river - for a rematch next episode
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Storywise this episode hasn't much new to offer, and
Dokugander actually isn't one of the more inspired monsters of the series,
but the change to rural settings do the episode lots of good, and the
surroundings are moodily filmed and made perfect use of, so in that
respect it's actually very watchable and among the better entries into the
series.
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