Kamen Rider ZO (仮面ライダーZO) is a 1993 japanese tokusatsu movie produced by Toei Company, loosely based on their Kamen Rider series.Plot summary
Masaru Asou was the lab assistant of genetecist Dr. Mochizuki, and was used as one of his experiments, enabling him to transform into grasshopper-like being called Kamen Rider ZO. He fled into the woods and went a coma before Dr. Mochizuki sent him a telepathic call for help; he had created the Neo Organism, too powerful for him to control. Masaru must protect Mochizuki's child, Hiroshi, from the creatures made by the Neo Organism.Charatcers
- Masaru Asou/Kamen Rider ZO: The hero of the story. Asou, was orignally an assistant to Dr. Mochizuki, the doctor conducted experiments on him, turning Asou into a grasshopper-like cyborg. Masaru was devastated by his horrible transformation and went into hiding. Time later, he dreamt of a boy named Hiroshi, the music from a gold pocket watch, and his mission to protect Hiroshi. Masaru awoke as ZO.
- Hiroshi Mochizuki: A young boy targeted by the Neo Organism. Hiroshi longed to be with his father, who had turned missing time ago. As a momento, Dr. Mochizuki gave a Hiroshi a pocket watch that played music. Hiroshi was at first afraid of ZO, but as ZO proved his truly was a friend, Hiroshi affectionatly referred to ZO as 'Rider'.
- Dr. Mochizuki: A mad scientist who turned Masaru into ZO and then created the Neo Organism. The docter's dream was to create the "perfect lifeform", but instead it turned on him. Dr. Mochizuki was held captive by his creation.
Neo Organism
A pool of living fluid that took on the appearance of a deformed little boy, the likeness of Hiroshi. The Neo Organism orchastrated the events in the movie, and even overpowered its creator, Dr. Mochizuki. It created its agent Doras to find Hiroshi.
- Doras: A grotesque grasshopper humanoid, the incarnation of the Neo Organism itself. Its mission was to capture Hiroshi. Capable of regenerating itself from servere injuries, Doras was to asborb ZO to evolve and achieve its full potenial as the "perfect lifeform". When Doras did manage to asborbed ZO, it became a red version fleshy of itself. It then went for Hiroshi, but the music from the pocket watch managed to give ZO the strength to break free from Doras' body. Reverted to its normal state, Doras was finally killed with the Neo Organism.
- Spider Woman: A Neo-Lifeform created by Doras, she was large inhuman spider woman who shot strong webbing to entangle Hiroshi. During combat with the monster, ZO snapped one of Spider Woman's legs and used it to impale and instantly kill her.
- Bat Man: A Neo-Lifeform created by Doras, he was a bat-like enity. Bat Man could extend its fingers to form wings for flight. It could also disguise itself is as any human. It took on the likeness of Mochizuki to trick Hiroshi. Bat Man took the boy to its master's hideout. ZO killed Bat Man by impaling his fist into the monster stomach.
Cast
- Masaru Asou/Kamen Rider ZO: Kou Domon
- Hiroshi Mochizuki, Neo Organism(Voice): Syohei Shibata
- Dr. Mochizuki: Isao Sasaki
- Seikichi Mochizuki: Hiroshi Inuzuka
- Reiko: Naomi Morinaga
- Kuroda: Kenji Ooba
- Nishimura: Masaru Yamashita
- Miyazaki: Iori Sakakibara
Trivia
- Kamen Rider ZO was the first joint produciton between Toei Co. Ltd. and Ban-Dai.
- Kamen Rider ZO later team-up with his sucessor, Kamen Rider J, in the short movie Kamen Rider World.
- The movie was adapted into a full motion video game for the Sega CD with an interface similar to Dragon's Lair , the 'Game' was released in America as "The Masked Rider : Kamen Rider ZO" , despite the film never airing in the United States, though footage involving the fights with the Neo Organism monsters were used in Saban's Masked Rider However ZO's suit constantly switched with the Kamen Rider BLACK RX suit used in Saban's series , which caused major editing faults) . The game was critically panned, largely due to it's script and dubbing.
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