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Kamen Rider
仮面ライダー
1971 · TV series · 24 min episodes · 37 seasons
ActionAdventureScience FictionFantasyDrama
Takeshi Hongo is a promising young man with a passion for motorcycle racing. However, his dreams are suddenly ruined when he gets kidnapped by Shocker, the evil secret organization planning to dominate the world. After being remodeled into a cyborg, Takeshi escapes and swears to protect the world from the inhuman monsters.
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There's a TV show translation group called TV-Nihon that actually does try to preserve everything as hard as possible. Everyone makes fun of them because their subtitles have random Japanese words scattered all over. And since Kamen Rider is written for small children it's not like the story is actually hard to understand.
It's funny, because MMPR is an Americanized "Tokusatsu" show. In fact, the original series was a re-cut Tokusatsu show, with American actors spliced in between Japanese action scenes and props.
Some notable examples are Giant Robo, Kamen Rider, and Kikaider.
They are children's television shows that are, lets face it, trash.
But, they find an audience. The shlockyness, the cheesy rubber suits, the bad acting, and the razor-thin plots all serve one purpose: To get two people into rubber suites so they can smash up a cardboard city and set off some squibs and pyrotechnics.
Do they exist to sell toys? of course. But, they were also made by teams of people all making music, designing suits, building props, planning pyrotechnics, acting, doing stunts ( driving and physical ), choreographing fights, and designing the "monster of the week."
There is a humanity to these shows. They are cheesy little guerilla operations doing the best they can with a small budget.
> The entire facility has quite a sci-fi aspect to it.
Which is likely why it's a common backdrop for many a Tokusatsu shows[0]. Every season of Kamen Rider[1] -- and likely Super Sentai[2] as well; I'm not sure since that's too juvenile for my taste -- is all but guaranteed to have at least one episode filmed there.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokusatsu
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamen_Rider_Series
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Sentai