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Shin Kamen Rider: Prologue
“Kamen Rider's TRUE century is about to begin!”
6.3 / 10• 1992• 1h 28m•NR• Japanese
ActionAdventureScience Fiction
Storyline
Doctors Kazamatsuri and Onizuka are geneticists researching cures on diseases such as AIDS and cancer by performing experiments to strengthen the human body. The test subject is Shin Kazamatsuri, motorcycle racer son of Doctor Kazamatsuri. Unknown to them, their operation is funded by a syndicate group, who plan to use this research to have the bodies of men strengthened for their own gain—they have already been experimenting in the field of cyborg soldiers, to a less-than-successful attempt. However, they did not count on Onizuka's own secret ambitions; the mad Onizuka wanted to create a new species, by fusing a grasshopper's DNA with the test subject's, in order to start a new civilization and be their god. He has tested on himself, but seems to be having greater success with Shin.
Cast & Crew
Shin Ishikawa
Shin Kazamatsuri / Kamen Rider Shin
LeadYN
Yumi Nomura
Ai Asuka
Akira Ishihama
Daimon Kazamatsuri
Kiyomi Tsukada
Sarah Fukamachi
Daijirō Harada
Iwao Himuro
Andre
Goushima / Transformed Goushima / Cyborg Soldier Level 2
KK
Kouki Kataoka
Giichi Onizuka / Transformed Onizuka / Cyborg Soldier Level 3
Masanobu Takashima
Takuya Yuuki
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Makoto Tsuji's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Shin Kamen Rider: Prologue is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
