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Super Hero Time
is a programming block on the Japanese television network TV Asahi featuring new episodes of tokusatsu television series from the Super Sentai, Kamen Rider and Metal Heroes. Both series have decades of history and have been intertwined in the public imagination for some time, not least of all because the driving creative force behind both was manga artist Shotaro Ishinomori and both were produced by the same production company, Toei Company; however, they did not air together until 2000 with ''Kamen Rider Kuuga'' and ''Kyuukyuu Sentai GoGoFive'' (which was quickly replaced by ''Mirai Sentai Timeranger'' 2 weeks later), though at the time they were not acknowledged together. Super Hero Time airs every Sunday morning, from 9:00 to 10:00 JST. The block is shown all over Japan via the All-Nippon News Network. Though, in other prefectures, one or both shows can be seen on other stations which are not affiliated with ANN. History Starting in the late 1960s, the hour was originall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans Japanese archipelago, an archipelago of List of islands of Japan, 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa Island, Okinawa. Tokyo is the Capital of Japan, nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated and Urbanization by country, urbanized. About three-fourths of Geography of Japan, the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warrior Of Love Rainbowman
is a tokusatsu series created by Kōhan Kawauchi. This was the first superhero TV series produced by Toho Company Ltd., and was broadcast on NET (now TV Asahi) from October 6, 1972 to September 18, 1973, with a total of 52 episodes. Mitsuru Adachi wrote a manga series based on the show which was serialized in ''TV Magazine Otomodachi'' from 1972 to 1973. Overview The series focuses on pro wrestler Takeshi Yamato, a young man who, after training in India with the yogi sage Devadatta, gains the ability to transform into a superhero called Rainbowman who possesses seven different superhero forms called "Dashes", with the seven Dashes representing yin and yang (the Moon and the Sun) and the five elements (wu xing) of ancient Chinese philosophy. In each Dash form, Rainbowman is endowed with a color-coded costume and powers related to that element. Dash 1 (yellow) represents the Moon, Dash 2 (red) represents fire, Dash 3 (blue) represents water, Dash 4 (green) represents wood, Das ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imagin
is the seventeenth installment in the popular Kamen Rider Series of tokusatsu programs. It is a joint collaboration between Ishimori Productions and Toei. It premiered January 28, 2007 on TV Asahi, and concluded airing on January 20, 2008. Its lead actor Takeru Satoh is the first Kamen Rider Series lead born in the Heisei period of Japanese history. It aired on the Super Hero Time slot alongside ''Gogo Sentai Boukenger'' and later ''Juken Sentai Gekiranger''. Along with the usual film adaptation that Heisei Kamen Rider series have released during the late summer of their broadcast run, ''Den-O'' had a second film released in the spring following its broadcast run which grossed 730 million yen (approximately US$6.8 million) and a series of ten OVA shorts, both of which are firsts for any ''Kamen Rider''. Continuing the trend, ''Kamen Rider Den-O'' also had a third film released in October 2008, the first for any Kamen Rider series and a second series of 12 OVA shorts was released ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamen Rider Den-O (character)
is the seventeenth installment in the popular Kamen Rider Series of tokusatsu programs. It is a joint collaboration between Ishimori Productions and Toei. It premiered January 28, 2007 on TV Asahi, and concluded airing on January 20, 2008. Its lead actor Takeru Satoh is the first Kamen Rider Series lead born in the Heisei period of Japanese history. It aired on the Super Hero Time slot alongside ''Gogo Sentai Boukenger'' and later ''Juken Sentai Gekiranger''. Along with the usual film adaptation that Heisei Kamen Rider series have released during the late summer of their broadcast run, ''Den-O'' had a second film released in the spring following its broadcast run which grossed 730 million yen (approximately US$6.8 million) and a series of ten OVA shorts, both of which are firsts for any ''Kamen Rider''. Continuing the trend, ''Kamen Rider Den-O'' also had a third film released in October 2008, the first for any Kamen Rider series and a second series of 12 OVA shorts was release ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ichirō Nagai
was a Japanese actor, Voice acting in Japan, voice actor and narrator from Ikeda, Osaka. He was previously affiliated with Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society, and was affiliated with Aoni Production at the time of his death. Career Nagai played ''GeGeGe no Kitaro's'' Konaki Jijii, a comic, absent-minded old yōkai man who attacks enemies by clinging to them and turning himself to stone, increasing his weight and mass immensely and pinning them down between the 60s and 80s alongside Masako Nozawa and Keiko Toda (Kitaro), Isamu Tanonaka (Medama oyaji), Chikao Ohtsuka and Kei Tomiyama (Nezumi-Otoko), Nana Yamaguchi, Yuko Mita (Neko Musume), Yoko Ogushi, Keiko Yamamoto (Sunakake Baba), Yonehiko Kitagawa, Kenji Utsumi and Yusaku Yara (Nurikabe) and Jōji Yanami, Keaton Yamada and Kōsei Tomita (Ittan Momen). Nagai was cast as ''Sazae-san's'' character, Namihei Isono, Sazae's father and patriarch of the family in the longest running Anime in 1969 alongside co-stars Midori Kat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geki Jūken Beast Arts
is Toei Company's thirty-first entry in the ''Super Sentai'' metaseries. Production began on September 29, 2006 with principal photography beginning on October 6, 2006. It premiered on February 18, 2007 on TV Asahi's 2007 ''Super Hero Time'' programming block with ''Kamen Rider Den-O'', and concluded its airing on February 10, 2008. Its footage was used for the American television series, ''Power Rangers Jungle Fury''. ''Gekiranger'' was dubbed into Korean as ''Power Rangers Wild Spirit'' for South Korean television. Story Four thousand years ago in Ancient China, a form of Chinese styled-like kenpō martial arts called was developed. It was created by a man named Brusa Ee, who came to Japan and built the hidden village . Jūken is a martial art in which one mimics the abilities of animals as well as trying to attain spiritual peace. However, dissent grew among the creator's ten students. Three of them believed that they should use the suffering and hatred harnessed within h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiro Mizushima
, known professionally as , is a Japanese actor, creative director, and writer. He appeared in a number of Japanese TV dramas, including ''Mei-chan no Shitsuji'', ''Hanazakari no Kimitachi e'' and ''Zettai Kareshi''. Additionally, he was well known as the protagonist Souji Tendo in the tokusatsu series ''Kamen Rider Kabuto''. Mizushima serves as the co-producer, co-screenwriter and leading actor for the latest film '' Black Butler'' which is the live-action film adaptation of the popular manga. His birth name "Tomohiro Saito" is being credited as co-producer in the film. Under his pen name , he wrote his first novel, ''Kagerou'', which was chosen as the winner of the 5th Popular Publishing Grand Prize for Fiction and was published in 2010. Career Mizushima first appeared on Japanese television in 2005, where he played Hiro Misawa, a minor character in the second season of ''Gokusen''. In the same year, he found guest starring roles in Japanese dramas such as ''Ame to Yume no At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamen Rider Kabuto (character)
is a Japanese tokusatsu superhero television series. It is the sixteenth installment in the popular Kamen Rider Series of tokusatsu programs. It is a joint collaboration between Ishimori Productions and Toei. The series was broadcast on TV Asahi. The first episode aired on January 29, 2006, and with the final episode airing on January 21, 2007, completing the series with 49 episodes. Super Hero Time with alongside ''GoGo Sentai Boukenger''. The series represents the 35th anniversary of the Kamen Rider Series, as indicated by a notice at the beginning of the pilot episode reading, in Japanese, "Kamen Rider 35th Anniversary Production." ''Kamen Rider Kabuto'' is the first Kamen Rider Series to be broadcast in a high-definition format. Story Seven years before the series, a meteorite struck the Shibuya district in Tokyo. An alien lifeform, known as the Worms, emerged from the meteorite and became a threat to humanity. Souji Tendo has been trained for seven years while waitin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitsuomi Takahashi
is a Japanese actor best known for playing Satoru Akashi/BoukenRed in the tokusatsu show ''GoGo Sentai Boukenger''. He took part in the 20th and 21st ''SASUKE'' competition. He failed both times in the first stage. Filmography TV shows *Water Boys 2005 Natsu (Fuji TV, 2005) *Anego (NTV, 2005) ''Rugby player, episode 3'' *GoGo Sentai Boukenger (TV Asahi, 2006) ''Satoru Akashi/BoukenRed'' *Hanazakari no Kimitachi e (Fuji TV, 2007) ''Mitsuomi Daikokucho'' *Cho Ninja Tai Inazuma! Sequel only (Toei Video, 2007) ''Hayate'' * Juuken Sentai Gekiranger vs. Boukenger (TV Movie, 2008) ''Satoru Akashi/BoukenRed'' *Kamen Rider OOO (episodes 17 & 18) "Sensei Masaru Hashimoto" *''Gokaiger Goseiger Super Sentai 199 Hero Great Battle'' as ''Satoru Akashi'' *''Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger'' (episode 21) as ''Satoru Akashi'' *''Unofficial Sentai Akibaranger'' (episode 3) as ''BoukenRed'' (voice) *''Umechan Sensei'' (NHK, 2012) as Toshio Matsuoka *''Seisei Suruhodo, Aishiteru'' (2016) as Yota Yamashit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Search Guard Successor Foundation
is the 30th series in Toei's Super Sentai series, a metaseries of Japanese tokusatsu programming. It was the first installment to be broadcast in the 16:9 aspect ratio. It premiered on February 19, 2006, at 7:30 JST on TV Asahi's 2006 ''Super Hero Time'' programming block, along with ''Kamen Rider Kabuto''. Its footage was used in the American series, ''Power Rangers Operation Overdrive'' in SD, while the original footage was dubbed into Korean for the South Korean series, ''Power Rangers Treasure Force''. Plot summary Powerful relics known as the Precious have started to appear throughout the world. Noticing these relic's power, various Negative Syndicates wish to take the Precious for themselves and utilize them for evil means. To make sure that the Precious does not fall into the hands of the Negative Syndicates, the Search Guard Successor Foundation has developed its own special operations team, the Boukengers, whose mission is to collect the dangerous Precious and also th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moero!! Robocon
is a Japanese tokusatsu comedy family robot television series created by Shotaro Ishinomori and produced by Toei. It ran from October 4, 1974, to March 25, 1977, on NET TV. ran from January 31, 1999 (a week after the finale of '' Tetsuwan Tantei Robotack'') to January 23, 2000 (a week before the premiere of ''Kamen Rider Kuuga''). This series joined ''Kyuukyuu Sentai GoGoFive''. The story follows Robocon, a student of Gantz's Robot Academy who lives amongst humans and aids them as part of his studies. Though Robocon is a screw up, he makes efforts to establish a good image for robots in the eyes of humans they cross paths with. On December 10, 1999, Toei released the direct to video movie where the Robocon of the 90s meets the original Robocon from the 70s. In 2006, Cartoon Network planned to develop a western animated adaptation titled ''Robocon!'' The series would have been set in a futuristic city called Neo-Con City. The series never went beyond an animatic pilot. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
B-Robo Kabutack
is a Japanese television series and is the sixteenth series as part of Toei's Metal Hero Series franchise of tokusatsu programs. It aired from February 23, 1997, to March 1, 1998. It is the first of shows made by Toei in the Metal Hero Series that was aimed at children. It aired alongside Denji Sentai Megaranger on TV Asahi. ''Kabutack'' bears some similarities with Robocon, as well as other Toei series, particularly in characters and themes. Plot Dr. Torahiko Kouenji is an eccentric genius who dug out the ancient writings from the oldest layer of the earth. He translated the writings and learned the existence of 13 that had been hidden across the planet. If one should obtain all the Star Pieces, any wish could be granted. To that end, Dr. Kouenji built search robots, known as "B-Robots", to find the Star Pieces. However, a trio of such robots, led by Cobrander, were activated without their sleep-education program being completed and thus started to commit bad deeds across the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
