Kamen Rider Kabuto: God Speed Love

Kamen Rider Kabuto the Movie: God Speed Love
Japanese name
Kanji劇場版 仮面ライダーカブト GOD SPEED LOVE
Transcriptions
Revised HepburnGekijōban Kamen Raidā Kabuto Goddo Supīdo Rabu
Directed byHidenori Ishida
Written byShōji Yonemura
Based onKamen Rider Kabuto
by Shoji Yonemura
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyMasao Inokuma
Edited byNaoki Osada
Music byKuniaki Haishima
Production
company
Distributed byToei Co. Ltd
Release date
  • August 5, 2006 (2006-08-05)
Running time
  • 66 minutes
  • 79 minutes (Director's Cut)
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Budget$6,000,000

Kamen Rider Kabuto the Movie: God Speed Love (劇場版 仮面ライダーカブト GOD SPEED LOVE, Gekijōban Kamen Raidā Kabuto Goddo Supīdo Rabu) is the theatrical film adaptation of the Kamen Rider Kabuto TV series directed by Hidenori Ishida and written by Shōji Yonemura. Unlike previous Kamen Rider movies, its serves a prologue of sorts to the TV series rather than following its storyline. The movie shows a previous timeline where the close relations between Riders (Kuuga to Hibiki) did not exist and the impact of the first meteor evaporated all of Earth's oceans. Seven years after the meteor hit Earth, ZECT pretends to use a passing comet to refill the Earth's oceans, while in fact they are pulling another meteor to crash on Earth, one large enough to wipeout all of humanity.

The film was produced by Ishimori Productions and Toei, the producers of all the previous television series and films in the Kamen Rider franchise. Following the tradition of all Heisei Kamen Rider movies, it is a double bill with 2006's Super Sentai movie, GoGo Sentai Boukenger The Movie: "The Greatest Precious". Upon its release, the movie was the second highest selling family movie of the week coming in at 4th place.[1] A Director's Cut version of the movie was released in May 2007.

  1. ^ "Box Office Mojo's Japanese box office returns for the weekend of August 5–6, 2006".