Mechanical Violator Hakaider

Mechanical Violator Hakaider
DVD cover art
Japanese name
Kanji人造人間ハカイダー
Transcriptions
Revised HepburnJinzō Ningen Hakaidā
Directed byKeita Amemiya
Screenplay byToshiki Inoue
Based onAndroid Kikaider
by Shotaro Ishinomori
Produced bySusumu Yoshikawa
Shinichiro Shirakura
Tatsuya Kimura
Toru Uemura
Haruki Nakayama
StarringYuji Kishimoto
Mai Hosho
Yasuaki Honda
Dai Matsumoto
Kazuhiko Inoue
CinematographyFumio Matsumura
Edited byJyunkichi Sugano
Music byKoichi Ota
Shinji Kinoshita
Production
companies
Distributed byToei Company
Release date
  • April 15, 1995 (April 15, 1995)
Running time
51 minutes
(theatrical)
77 minutes
(director's cut)
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Mechanical Violator Hakaider (人造人間ハカイダー, Jinzō Ningen Hakaidā, lit. “Android Hakaider”) is a 1995 Japanese tokusatsu film directed by Keita Amemiya. Based on the television series Android Kikaider, the film features Hakaider in the role of an anti-hero as opposed to his typical portrayal as a villain.