Kamen Rider ZO

Kamen Rider ZO
Cover art of the DVD.
Japanese name
Kanji仮面ライダーZO
Transcriptions
Revised HepburnKamen Raidā Zetto Ō
Directed byKeita Amemiya
Written byNoboru Sugimura
Produced byYoshinori Watanabe
Makoto Yamashina
Ryonori Watanabe
Shigeru Watanabe
Satoshi Kubo
Nagadumi Hori
Tomoo Kakuta
StarringKou Domon
Shohei Shibata
Isao Sasaki
CinematographyFumio Matsumura
Edited byJunkichi Kanno
Music byEiji Kawamura
Production
companies
Distributed byToei Co. Ltd
Release date
  • April 17, 1993 (1993-04-17)
Running time
48 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Budget¥300 million
($2.8 million)

Kamen Rider ZO (仮面ライダーZO, Kamen Raidā Zetto Ō), translated Masked Rider ZO, is a 1993 Japanese tokusatsu biopunk superhero movie produced by the Toei Company as part of their Kamen Rider Series.[1][2] Directed by Keita Amemiya, it was the first joint production of Toei and Bandai. A Sega CD interactive movie was released for ZO in 1994,[3] and was distributed in the United States as The Masked Rider: Kamen Rider ZO.

To commemorate the series' 40th anniversary, ZO was shown on Toei's pay-per-view channel in September 2011.[4] The film's protagonist, Kamen Rider ZO, appears in the later Kamen Rider Decade television series[5] and is a playable character in the 2011 Nintendo DS video game All Kamen Rider: Rider Generation.[6]

  1. ^ Televi Magazine First Issue 31st Anniversary Project: All Hero Great Assembly (テレビマガジン創刊31周年記念企画), December 2002
  2. ^ Televi Magazine Deluxe 66, January 17, 1997. ISBN 4-06-304418-1
  3. ^ "仮面ライダーZO みんなのクロスレビュー、最新情報". Famitsu.com. Retrieved 2011-11-21.
  4. ^ "2011年9月のラインナップ". Toei Channel. Archived from the original on 2012-05-06. Retrieved 2011-11-20.
  5. ^ Uchusen, No. 125. July 2009
  6. ^ "仮面ライダー総集結のアクションゲーム『ライダージェネレーション』が発売!". Dengeki.com. 2011-05-23. Retrieved 2011-11-19.