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Kamen Raida - Kyofu Komori Otoko
episode 2 / Kamen Rider - The Terrifying Bat Man
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), Yoshinobu Sano, Eken Mine (voice), Jo Honda, Chie Kobayashi, Jiro Tatsumi, Joji Nagai, Kimiko Horikawa, Shinji Nakae (voice), Kyoko Omori
written by Masaru Igami, 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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Takeshi (Hiroshi Fujioka) wins another motorbike race, but the model
(Chie Kobayashi) who's to present him with the trophy turns out to be a
vampire, whom Takeshi can fend off successfully though. He traces the
model back to her apartment building and finds out all the inhabitants
have been turned into vampires by the Bat Man (Yoshinobu Sano, voiced by
Eken Mine), the latest monster the leader of the Shocker organisation
(voiced by Goro Naya) has released on mankind. Takeshi, in his Kamen Rider
identity, fights the Bat Man, who when under threat just turns himself off
- and all of those he has turned into vampires as a result. Meanwhile, Ruriko (Chieko
Morikawa), who still thinks Takeshi has killed her father [last
episode], tracks him down to his apartment - but accidently
knocks out not him but his mentor Tachibana (Akiji
Kobayashi), who was to look after the turned off vampires who Takeshi for
some reason keeps at his place. And of course, it's then and there the
vampires wake up, and soon enough the Bat Man turns Ruriko. It's not long
until Takeshi re-enters the scene, faces the Bat Man, somehow gets the
information out of him how to turn everyone back (a secret serum is hidden
in his claw), then fights the monster and beats him to a pulp - and then
he undoes the damage the Shocker organisation has done ...
Hardly great by any definition of the word, this is still good
fun, a horror crossover with its fair share of camp thrown in, some pretty
ridiculous vampires, a bat monster that's actually not too bad, and of
course plenty of action. Now certainly not the most memorable piece of TV
you've ever seen, but it has been made for light consumption, and for that
it works very fine.
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Robots and rats,
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