Hideaki Anno reboots tokusatsu with 27 minutes of beautiful nightmare fuel.
A TV special which contained the first 23 minutes of "Shin Kamen Rider" footage and was broadcasted on MBS in order to promote the movie.
Practical Effects
Kumo-Aug's suit: wet, writhing, genuinely repulsive craftsmanship.
Direction
Anno's chaotic editing: EVA trauma meets 70s heroism.
Cinematography
Grainy 16mm textures that feel illegally intimate.
Director
Hideaki Anno
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This special aired exactly 50 years after the original Kamen Rider's 1971 debut—Anno's childhood obsession finally exorcised.
The 'Augment' terminology deliberately echoes Shin Godzilla's bureaucratic body horror, linking Anno's kaiju and tokusatsu universes through state violence.
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