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Ishimori Productions
is a Japanese production company that develops works created by, and also serves as the literary estate of manga artist Shotaro Ishinomori, headquartered in Yoyogi, Tokyo. Such works include '' 009-1'', ''Kikaider'', ''Inazuman'', '' Ganbare!! Robocon'', ''Voicelugger'', the '' Toei Fushigi Comedy Series'', the ''Kamen Rider'' series and the early entries of the ''Super Sentai'' series. In Indonesia, it is also present in the original tokusatsu series Indonesia, namely BIMA Satria Garuda and Satria Garuda BIMA-X ''Satria Garuda BIMA-X'' ("Garuda Knight BIMA-X") is an Indonesian tokusatsu series formed from the cooperation between MNC Media initiated by Reino Barack with Ishimori Productions, maker of the Kamen Rider series. This series marks the Secon ... based on ''Kamen Rider'' series. Works Live-action TV series Films TV specials and short films Animes Credited as Ishimori Entertainment. External linksIshimori Pro , Official Website Film production compan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Production Company
A production company, production house, production studio, or a production team is a studio that creates works in the fields of performing arts, new media art, film, television, radio, comics, interactive arts, video games, websites, music, and video. These groups consist of technical staff to produce the media, and are often incorporated as a commercial publisher. Generally the term refers to all individuals responsible for the technical aspects of creating a particular product, regardless of where in the process their expertise is required, or how long they are involved in the project. For example, in a theatrical performance, the production team has not only the running crew, but also the theatrical producer, designers and theatrical direction. Tasks and functions The production company may be directly responsible for fundraising the production or may accomplish this through a parent company, partner, or private investor. It handles budgeting, scheduling, scripting, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Android Kikaider
is a ''tokusatsu'' television series based on superhero manga series of the same name by Shotaro Ishinomori. The show was produced by Toei Company and Ishimori Productions, and was broadcast in Japan on NET (now TV Asahi) from July 8, 1972, to May 5, 1973, with a total of 43 episodes. This series was also one of the first ''tokusatsu'' to air in the United States (notably Hawaii), as ''Kikaida: Android of Justice''. Story Dr. Kohmyoji is a scientist and an expert in robotics, who is being kept prisoner by the evil organization DARK. Dr. Kohmyoji creates Kikaider in order to protect his children from Professor Gill, the head of DARK. When Gill learns about this, he sends his androids to deal with Dr. Kohmyoji. Jiro (Kikaider) is able to rescue Dr. Kohmyoji's daughter, Mitsuko, but a fire separates him from Dr. Kohmyoji. Jiro is able to destroy Gray Rhino King, but is unable to locate Dr. Kohmyoji, who is wandering away with amnesia. The series mainly deals with the constant bat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragon Knight
Dragon Knight or The Dragon Knight may refer to: * ''Dragon Knight'' (novel series), a series of fantasy novels by Gordon R. Dickson which began in 1976. ** ''The Dragon Knight'' (Dickson novel), the second novel in the ''Dragon Knight'' series, released in 1990 * ''Dragon Knight'' (video game series), a series of hentai games by ELF, and (mostly hentai) anime based on those games *# ''Dragon Knight'' (video game), a 1989 video game *# ''Dragon Knight II'', an MSX game released December 1990 *# ''Dragon Knight III'' or ''Knights of Xentar'', a 1991 multi-platform game *# ''Dragon Knight 4'', a 1994 game * '' Dragon Knight'', a 1990 adventure scenario published for the ''Dragonlance'' campaign setting in the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' roleplaying game * '' Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight'', a 2009 television series adapted from ''Kamen Rider Ryuki'' * ''The Dragon Knight'' (film), a 2011 Chinese animated film * ''The Dragon Knight'' (Owen novel), a standalone eighth novel in ''The Chron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saban Entertainment
Saban Entertainment, Inc. (along with Saban International; currently operating under the legal name is BVS Entertainment, Inc.) was a worldwide-served independent American-Israeli television production company formed in 1980 by Haim Saban and Shuki Levy, which was originally founded as a music production company Saban Productions. The first TV show produced by Saban is the live action/animated show ''Kidd Video''. The company imported, dubbed, and adapted several Japanese series such as ''Maple Town'', ''Noozles'', ''Funky Fables'', ''Samurai Pizza Cats'', and the first three ''Digimon'' series to North America and international markets syndication, including both animation and live-action shows. Saban also adapted various tokusatsu shows from Toei Company, including ''Power Rangers'' (based on the ''Super Sentai'' series), ''Big Bad Beetleborgs'' (based on ''Juukou B-Fighter''), ''VR Troopers'' (featuring elements of ''Metal Hero'' series like ''Space Sheriff Shaider'', ''Jik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masked Rider (TV Series)
''Masked Rider'' is a 1995 live action television series produced by Saban Entertainment and Toei Company, Ltd. It is an American adaptation of the 1988 Japanese television series ''Kamen Rider Black RX'', and also serves as a spinoff of ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers''. It aired on Fox as part of the Fox Kids program block from September 16, 1995, to August 31, 1996, and then in syndication from September 9, 1996, to August 1997. Story The series began with the main character, Prince Dex, escaping the Plague Patrol with a small group of Edenoite rebels. Dex heads for Earth, the next target of his sinister uncle Count Dregon, who ruled Edenoi with an iron fist after displacing Dex's grandfather King Lexian. King Lexian had given Dex the Masked Rider powers (where the powers came from is a mystery, although they have been kept for some time by Edenoi's champions), which Dregon desires for himself. Arriving on Earth in a massive crater, Dex finds himself in the care of the Stewart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyoudai Ken Byclosser
is a tokusatsu television series made by Ishinomori Productions and Toei. The series consisted of 34 episodes and was produced with Nippon Television. It aired in Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ... from January 10, 1985 until August 29, 1985. Songs ;Opening theme: * **Lyrics: **Composition: **Arrangement: **Artist: ;Ending theme: * **Lyrics: **Composition: **Arrangement: **Artist: ;Insert songs: * **Lyrics: **Composition: **Arrangement: **Artist: * **Lyrics: **Composition: **Arrangement: **Artist: {{Shotaro Ishinomori Shotaro Ishinomori Toei tokusatsu 1985 Japanese television series debuts 1985 Japanese television series endings Nippon TV original programming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nebula Mask Machineman
is a Japanese tokusatsu television series created by Shotaro Ishinomori and produced by Toei Company. It aired from January 13 until September 28, 1984. It revolves around the adventures of Nick (''Nikku''), a college student from the Ivy planet (located at the Pleiades) and his arrival on Earth to study the earthlings' behavior. Upon arrival, he is called in for the activities of the evil organization called "Tentacle", whose don, Professor K, wishes to eliminate all children in the world. The series is rumored to have been inspired by the American DC Comics superhero, Superman, although this was never confirmed by either Ishinomori or Toei. Plot Traveling in the spaceship "Space Colony", Nick, with the help of his ball-shaped robot "Ball Boy", arrive on Earth to study the behavior and manners of human beings for his doctoral degree thesis. Under the human identity of a young man named Ken Takase, he meets Maki Hayama, a photographer at Shukan Hit newspaper, and later save ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galactic Wars
Galactic is an American jam band from New Orleans, Louisiana. Origins and background Formed in 1994 as an octet (under the name Galactic Prophylactic) and including singer Chris Lane and guitarist Rob Gowen, the group was soon pared down to a sextet of: guitarist Jeff Raines, bassist Robert Mercurio, drummer Stanton Moore, Hammond organist Rich Vogel, Theryl DeClouet on vocals, and later adding saxophonist Ben Ellman. The group was started when Raines and Mercurio, childhood friends from affluent Chevy Chase, Maryland, moved to New Orleans together to attend college at Tulane and Loyola Universities, became enamored of the local funk scene, populated by such legendary acts as The Meters and Dirty Dozen Brass Band and inspired by local legends such as Professor Longhair. There they teamed with noted New Orleans drummer Stanton Moore, saxophonist/harmonica (now producer) Ben Ellman, Rich Vogel, and Theryl de Clouet. In 2004, the band parted ways with vocalist DeClouet, and co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daitetsujin 17
is a 1977 ''tokusatsu'' series created by Shotaro Ishinomori and produced by Toei. It revolves around a giant battle robot commanded by a young boy who fights the giant robots of an evil organization bent on world conquest. It is similar to ''Giant Robo'' in premise and how it ends. Several episodes were edited into a TV movie shown in the United States under different titles, including ''The Defenders and the Great Brain'' and ''Brain 17'' (1982). The opening theme was performed by Ichirou Mizuki, Koorogi '73 and The Chirps. Popy manufactured several toys based on the series - notably a transforming Chogokin version of the robot One-Seven (later released in America for the ''Godaikin'' line), vehicles based on One-Seven's Flying Fortress mode, the Sub Machine Flying Car, the Shigcon Tank and the Shigcon Jet, and a three-inch version of One-Seven, which was later released as "17" in Mattel's '' Shogun Warriors'' line. Story Brain is the world's greatest computer, and also the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaiketsu Zubat
, is a ''tokusatsu'' superhero series that aired in 1977. Created by Shotaro Ishinomori, this 32-episode series (which aired on TV Tokyo from 2/2/1977 to 9/28/1977), harkens back to tokusatsu superhero shows of the 1950s, but with a late-1970s twist. The series was first released on DVD in 2008. Premise and plotlines : The star of the show is a private detective named Ken Hayakawa, played by veteran Hiroshi Miyauchi. In the first episode, his best friend Goro Asuka is mysteriously killed. Ken takes over his friend's gear that Asuka had invented: a suit and a flying vehicle, which he names the Zubat Suit and the Zubat Car. He travels the land as a wandering hero, fighting evil and injustice while in the guise of Zubat, and also trying to find Asuka's killer. Zubat's name is based on the sound effect "zubatto," which is the sound of something being hit right on target. The series is unusual in the tonkusatsu genre as the title hero Zubat does not "henshin" (transform) like the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Space Ironman Kyodain
is a Japanese tokusatsu science fiction superhero television series. The show, like numerous others of its type and era, were produced as a joint effort between manga artist Shotaro Ishinomori and Toei Company producer Toru Hirayama. It premiered in 1976 and ran for 48 episodes. The show is well known for its strange plot and costume design, rapid-fire and purposefully disorienting editing, and unique, sometimes surreal, atmosphere. The late Yūsuke Natsu and Takeshi Sasaki (who previously portrayed Hayato Ichimonji in ''Kamen Rider'') starred as Skyzel and Grounzel respectively. Plot summary The plot of the program involves an alien empire from the planet "Dada" called the "Robot Army Corps". When they kidnap a human scientist, Dr. Hayami, and two of his three sons and force him to improve their technology, he has no choice but to go along with them, despite his deep anger, resentment, and guilt. One year later, their empire sufficiently advanced, the Robot Army Corps return t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akumaizer 3
is a Japanese science fiction tokusatsu television series, created by Shotaro Ishinomori and produced by Toei Company. The series premiered on Tuesday October 7, 1975, at 7:30, and ran for 38 episodes in that timeslot on NET, now known as TV Asahi. The series remains obscure outside Japan, but was popular and renowned in its home country. The series was followed by a sequel called ''Chojin Bibyun'' which used rejected designs from the Kamen Rider series as its hero designs. Production The program frequently alludes to the famous Alexandre Dumas, père novel ''The Three Musketeers''. Due to the inhuman nature of the main characters, the primary protagonists and antagonists were portrayed exclusively by stuntmen, with only their voices being portrayed by professional actors. Because of this, an unusual number of well-known voice actors star in the series, as the voices of the main characters. Makio Inoue portrays Xavitan., Kōji Yada plays Evil, and Jōji Yanami provides Gabra's gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |