The man who gave Japan its metal heroes finally gets his own origin story.
This story follows the semi-autobiographical account of manga artist Shotaro Ishinomori, author of the original Kamen Rider, Cyborg 009, and Super Sentai.
Acting
Kento Nakajima captures Ishinomori's gentle intensity and quiet exhaustion.
Production
Period-perfect manga studio details that make you smell the ink.
Direction
Sakuma balances fan service with genuine human melancholy.
Director
Noriyoshi Sakuma
Kento Nakajima
Shotaro Ishinomori
Fumino Kimura
Yoshie Onodera
Kento Hayashi
Fujio Akatsuka
Tetta Sugimoto
Kotaro Onodera
Maki Mizuno
Kashiku Onodera
Rina Terakawa
Toshiko Onodera
Takuro Ohno
Hiroo Terada
Keisuke Nakata
Hiroshi Fujimoto / "Fujiko F. Fujio"
Takara Sakumoto
Moto Abiko / "Fujiko Fujio A."
Naruki Matsukawa
Jiro Tsunoda
Shuto Miyazaki
Shinichi Suzuki
Soko Wada
Yamahira
Tsutomu Takahashi
Kawato
Shôgo Yamaguchi
Kushihara
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kento Hayashi spent months learning left-handed drawing to match Fujio Akatsuka's actual technique. The film's editors flipped most shots anyway.
Ishinomori's 'Cyborg 009' essentially invented the team-of-heroes template that Power Rangers later imported. This film argues he saw himself as 009: always between worlds, never fully human.
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