Kamen Rider ZO

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Kamen Rider ZO
Cover art of the DVD.
Japanese name
Kanji	仮面ライダーZO
Transcriptions Revised Hepburn Kamen Raidā Zetto Ō
Directed by	Keita Amemiya
Written by	Noboru Sugimura
Produced by	Yoshinori Watanabe Makoto Yamashina Ryonori Watanabe Shigeru Watanabe Satoshi Kubo Nagadumi Hori Tomoo Kakuta
Starring	Kou Domon Shohei Shibata Isao Sasaki
Cinematography	Fumio Matsumura
Edited by	Junkichi Kanno
Music by	Eiji Kawamura
Production companies	Ishinomori Productions Bandai
Distributed by	Toei Co. Ltd
Release date	April 17, 1993 (1993-04-17)
Running time	48 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
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]