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Shin Kamen Rider (2023) [Japanese]
Things that change. Things that don’t. …and things that I wouldn’t want to change.
Hongo Takeshi awakens to discover he has been transformed into a grasshopper-hybrid cyborg. Becoming the Masked Rider, he must fight the mysterious evil organization SHOCKER to protect all of mankind.
Shin Kamen Rider (シン・仮面ライダー, Shin Kamen Raidā) is a 2023 Japanese superhero film directed and written by Hideaki Anno. Produced to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Kamen Rider,[8] it is the fourth and final film in Anno’s Shin Japan Heroes Universe, following Shin Godzilla (2016), Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (2021) and Shin Ultraman (2022), as well as the first without his frequent collaborator Shinji Higuchi. The film stars Sosuke Ikematsu, Minami Hamabe, Tasuku Emoto, Nanase Nishino, Shinya Tsukamoto, Toru Tezuka, Suzuki Matsuo, and Mirai Moriyama. In the film, a man and his female cohort attempt to annihilate the illegal organization responsible for his conversion into a mutant cyborg and stop their plans to conquer society.
Anno first proposed the project after becoming close with Toei producer Muneyuki Kii during the production of his 2012 film Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo. Initially, Toei aimed for the film to be released in 2021, however, production was delayed due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Principal photography began on October 3, 2021, and wrapped at the end of January 2022.
The film premiered in Japan at selected theaters on March 17, 2023, and was released nationwide on March 18, 2023. It grossed $16.02 million and received mostly positive reviews from critics. On July 21, 2023, it began streaming on Amazon Prime Video in over 200 locations worldwide, under the title Shin Masked Rider.
Motorcyclist Takeshi Hongo is kidnapped by the Sustainable Happiness Organization with Computational Knowledge Embedded Remodeling (SHOCKER), a sinister organization that transforms humans into brainwashed synthetic animal hybrids known as Augments, or Augs. Hongo is transformed into Grasshopper-Aug 01 but is set free by Ruriko Midorikawa, a former SHOCKER member, before he is brainwashed. SHOCKER sends one of its executive agents, Spider-Aug, to retrieve them and briefly captures Ruriko but is saved by Hongo in his augmented suit.
They retreat to a safe house where they rendezvous with Ruriko’s father, Dr. Hiroshi Midorikawa. He reveals that Hongo is his masterpiece Augment to defeat the organization and chose him because Hongo wished for power after his father, a policeman, was killed by a suspect he was trying to ease; he also explains that the life source prana allows Hongo to harness superhuman strength. They are discovered by Spider-Aug, who kills Dr. Midorikawa and kidnaps Ruriko once more, only to be thwarted again. After processing the recent events, Hongo vows to use his powers for good and abandons the title of Grasshopper-Aug by dubbing himself “Kamen Rider.” Ruriko is untrusting of Hongo but cedes to relying on his abilities.
Shin Kamen Rider (2023)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Release Date: Mar 17, 2023 (Japan)
Stars: Sosuke Ikematsu, Minami Hamabe, Tasuku Emoto
Source: Shin.Kamen.Rider.2023.Amazon.WEB-DL.1080p.H264.DDP-AREY
Language: Japanese
Subtitle Language: English
