Shin Kamen Rider Movie Details:
| Katakana | シン・仮面ライダー |
| Revised Hepburn | Shin Kamen Raidā |
| Based on | Characters by Shotaro Ishinomori |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Genre | Action, Adventure, Superhero |
| Release date | March 17, 2023 |
| Running time | 2hr 1min |
| Starring | Sousuke Ikematsu Minami Hamabe Tasuku Emoto Nanase Nishino Shinya Tsukamoto Toru Tezuka Suzuki Matsuo Mirai Moriyama |
| Directed by | Hideaki Anno |
| Written by | Hideaki Anno |
| Produced by | Daiki Koide Kazutoshi Wadakura |
| Cinematography by | Osamu Ichikawa Keizō Suzuki |
| Edited by | Emi Tsujita |
| Music by | Taku Iwasaki |
| Production Company | Cine Bazar |
| Distributor | Toei Company, Ltd. Presented by Shin Kamen Rider Production Committee |
Shin Kamen Rider Movie Cast & Characters:
- Sosuke Ikematsu as Takeshi Hongo, a brilliant yet introverted college graduate and motorcyclist who is abducted by SHOCKER and transformed into the Synthetic Insect-Hybrid Augment Grasshopper-Aug 01. As he escapes from his captors, Takeshi re-dubbed himself as the Kamen Rider (retroactively referred to as “Kamen Rider No. 1”) and pledges to wage a war against SHOCKER.
- Minami Hamabe is Ruriko Midorikawa, a female computational organism who defected from SHOCKER and aids Hongo in his war against the organization.
- Tasuku Emoto as Hayato Ichimonji, a photojournalist who SHOCKER transformed into Grasshopper-Aug 02. Initially, he was a brainwashed soldier before he was freed from their thrall, Hayato re-dubbed himself as Kamen Rider No. 2 and joined Takeshi in their war against SHOCKER.
- Nanase Nishino as Hiromi, a senior member of SHOCKER and childhood friend of Ruriko who can transform into Wasp-Aug[10]
- Shinya Tsukamoto as Dr. Hiroshi Midorikawa, Ruriko’s and Ichiro’s father
- Toru Tezuka as Bat-Aug, a Non-human Infused Augment and Biochemical Research Chief of SHOCKER
- Kanata Hongō as K.K.-Aug, a Mantis/Chameleon-themed Tri-species Synthetic Hybrid Augment of SHOCKER’s “Angels of Death Group”
- Nao Ōmori as the voice of Spider-Aug, a Non-human Infused Augment senior member of SHOCKER
- Masami Nagasawa as Scorpion-Aug, a senior member of SHOCKER
- Tori Matsuzaka as the voice of K, SHOCKER’s autonomous AI
- Mikako Ichikawa as Ichiro Midori kawa’s mother, the late matriarch of the Midorikawa family
- Tōru Nakamura as Takeshi Hongo’s father
- Ken Yasuda as the man who killed Takeshi Hongo’s father
- Shūhei Uesugi as the man in business suit, Hiromi’s second-in-command
- Suzuki Matsuo as the founder of SHOCKER, a mysterious billionaire who created the SHOCKER A.I.s before he committed suicide for unknown reasons
- Takumi Saitoh as an intelligence official. He called himself “Taki”
- Yutaka Takenouchi as a government official. He called himself “Tachibana”
- Mirai Moriyama as Ichiro Midorikawa, Dr. Midorikawa’s son, Ruriko’s elder brother, and a high-ranking member of SHOCKER who can transform into the ultimate augment Butterfly-Aug, before he re-dubbed himself as Kamen Rider No.0. His backstory is told in the spin-off manga, Nulla in mundo pax sincera: Shin Kamen Rider SHOCKER Side
Storyline:
College student and motorcycle enthusiast Takeshi Hongo (Sosuke Ikematsu) is abducted by the evil organization Shocker and converted into a cyborg as part of their plans for world domination. Before they can brainwash him to do their bidding, he escapes and uses his new enhanced abilities as Kamen Rider to wage a one-man war against Shocker.
Shin Kamen Rider Movie Budget & Box Office Collection:
| Worldwide Collection | $16.02 million |
About Shin Kamen Rider Movie:
Shin Kamen Rider (シン・仮面ライダー, Shin Kamen Raidā) is a Japanese superhero film directed and written by Hideaki Anno.The film stars Sosuke Ikematsu, Minami Hamabe, Tasuku Emoto, Nanase Nishino, Shinya Tsukamoto, Toru Tezuka, Suzuki Matsuo, and Mirai Moriyama.
The film was announced in a press conference on April 3, 2021, the 50th anniversary of the franchise’s first episode.
It is the fourth and final film in Anno’s Shin Japan Heroes Universe, following Shin Godzilla (2016), Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (2021), and Shin Ultraman (2022), as well as the first without his frequent collaborator Shinji Higuchi.
Principal photography began on October 3, 2021, and wrapped at the end of January 2022.
The film’s first trailers are based on the title sequence of Kamen Rider (1971).
The first teaser was revealed at a press conference on September 30, along with the casting of leads Ikematsu and Hamabe.
Like Shin Ultraman, several sequences in the film were shot on iPhones, using camera movements, lens sizes, angles, and zoom timing to mimic modern cinematic techniques.
Shin Kamen Rider premiered in Japan at selected theaters on March 17, 2023, and was released nationwide on March 18, 2023. The film grossed $16.02 million and received mostly positive reviews from critics. On July 21, 2023, it began streaming on Amazon Prime Video in over 200 locations worldwide, under the title Shin Masked Rider.
Yamashita also designed the film’s incarnation of the Cyclone, Kamen Rider’s motorcycle. The use of a fully computer-generated bike was proposed but ultimately rejected due to concerns over budget and screen time.
Hideaki Anno, who grew up with the original 1971 Kamen Rider series, expressed his admiration for the franchise, calling it “epoch-making” and expressing a desire to “give back in some small way”.
The film began streaming on Amazon Prime Video, under the title “Shin Masked Rider”, on July 21, 2023, in over 200 countries and territories worldwide.
