Midorikawa ( Shin’ya Tsukamoto), a former SHOCKER scientist who is now fighting back against the organization because of her deep guilt that manifests for professional and personal reasons. Instead of being brainwashed by his new augmentation and suit, he’s rescued by Dr. After being augmented into a grasshopper-hybrid cyborg, his suit and programming dampen his aversion to killing and set him on the path to relentlessly eliminate any person or hybrid in his path.īut this isn’t just Hongo’s story. As they begin to take candidates who are fit for augmentation, Hongo is the perfect candidate, given his physical aptitude and intellect. In the film, our masked rider is a college student and motorcycle lover, Takeshi Hongo ( Sôsuke Ikematsu), who is kidnapped by a mysterious evil organization SHOCKER that is building an army of mutant cyborgs, artificial hybrids of humans, insects, and machines, known as Augs, to dominate the world and mankind. A Tokusatsu with a long history, Shin Kamen Rider follows in the footsteps of other films in the Shin series that Anno has been involved in, like Shin Godzillaand Shin Ultraman, in encapsulating the history of what made the franchise a fan-favorite while also building on it uniquely. Screening as a part of the Fantasia International Film Festival’s 2023 programming highlighting Asian cinema this year, Shin Kamen Rider (Shin Masked Rider in the US ) shines brightly in a program filled with robust and diverse genre films. Directed and Written by Hideaki Anno, Shin Kamen Rider is epic. It’s a kinetic and dynamic genre that, at its best, is epic. The tokusatsu genre is filled with diverse stories that go hard on absurdity, ground themselves in sincerity, and aim to amaze audiences with character designs and action sets that will make you whoop at the screen.
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