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Kamen Rider Kuuga (live-action TV)

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Alternative title:
Masked Rider Kuuga
仮面ライダークウガ (Japanese)
Objectionable content: Mild
Plot Summary: Yuusuke Goudai, a man that practises dozens of tricks finds himself linked and connected to a mysterious stoned belt found hidden in a cave. The belt embedded with his body and mysterious creatures who are out to kill people appear. It is up to Yuusuke Goudai and his hero form of Kamen Rider Kuuga to stop and defeat these creatures from continuous killing. Yuusuke finds different rider forms during his battle with the creatures including Titan & Pegasus forms with different weapons and abilities.
Running time: 25 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 49
Episode titles: We have 49
Vintage: 2000-01-30 to 2001-01-21
Opening Theme:
"Kamen Rider Kuuga" by Masayuki Tanaka
Ending Theme:
"Sky Becomes Blue" by Jin Hashimoto
Insert song:
"Around The Way Girl -Marley Rub-" by LL Cool J (ep 27)
Official website:
Trivia: We have 1
Comment:
Toei's first new Kamen Rider series following the passing of creator Shotaro Ishinomori, marking the beginning of the Heisei-era Kamen Rider series.
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    Kamen Rider Kuuga - The Complete Series (Sub.Blu-ray) 2022-09-20 (from $41.04)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Hidenori Ishida
Series Composition: Naruhisa Arakawa
Screenplay:
Katsura Murayama (ep 17)
Kiyoshi Takenaka (eps 31, 46.5)
Naruhisa Arakawa (40 episodes
eps 1-12, 15-16, 19-22, 25-26, 29-31, 33-49
)

Toshiki Inoue (9 episodes
eps 13-14, 18, 23-24, 27-28, 32-33
)

Tsuyoshi Kida (ep 17)
Episode Director:
Hidenori Ishida (17 episodes
eps 1-2, 7-8, 13-14, 19-20, 25-26, 34-35, 40-41, 47-49
)

Katsuya Watanabe (15 episodes
eps 3-4, 9-10, 15-16, 21-22, 27-28, 36-37, 44-46
)

Koichi Kofuji (ep 46.5)
Nobuhiro Suzumura (eps 17, 31)
Osamu Kaneda (4 episodes
eps 32-33, 42-43
)

Takao Nagaishi (11 episodes
eps 5-6, 11-12, 18, 23-24, 29-30, 38-39
)

Original creator: Shōtarō Ishinomori
Producer:
Shigenori Takatera (Toei)
Takeyuki Suzuki (Toei; eps 13-49)
Yumi Shimizu (TV Asahi)

Supervision:
Akira Onodera (Ishimori Pro)
Jō Onodera 
Theme Song Arrangement: Toshihiko Sahashi
Theme Song Composition: Toshihiko Sahashi
Theme Song Lyrics: Shōko Fujibayashi
Theme Song Performance:
Jin Hashimoto (ED)
Masayuki Tanaka
Jo Odagiri as Yusuke Godai / Kamen Rider Kuuga
Kazumi Murata as Sakurako Sawatari
Shingo Katsurayama as Kaoru Ichijou

Kaori Mizushima as Hikari Enokida
Kenji Urai as N-Daguba-Zeba
Kitarou as Tamasaburō "Oya-san" Kazari
Mie Nanamori as Rose-Tattooed Woman / Ra-Baruba-De
Mitsuru Fujio as Zu-Gooma-Gu
Nobuyuki Yoneyama as Tsuyoshi Sakurai
Serge Vasilov as Jean-Michel Sorrel
Shio Mizubara as Nana Asahina
Takashi Matsuyama as Morimichi Sugita
Wakana Aoi as Minori Godai
Yoshitaka Ohtsuka as Shuichi Tsubaki

Akira Nogami as Zu-Zain-Da
Chiaki Asakura as Go-Zazaru-Ba
Daisuke Uchida as Junichi Chono
Eri Tanaka as Nozomi Sasayama
Fumihiko Tachiki as Narrator
Hironobu Ohashi as Me-Biran-Gi
Jūji Matsuda as Police Search Party (ep 1)
Katsuaki Nishide as Tsurumaru Kameyama
Kazuyoshi Sakai as Go-Gamego-Re
Kenshou Sakurai as Go-Baberu-Da
Masaharu Mori as Me-Garume-Re
Masato Gunji as Go-Gadoru-Ba
Masayoshi Okawa as Go-Jaraji-Da
Miho Iijima as Me-Garima-Ba
Nobuyuki Ogawa as
Go-Bada-Ba
Zu-Badzu-Ba
Seiko Ito as Go-Bemiu-Gi
Sumire Arai as Go-Jyaza-Gi
Takashi Inoue as Shoji Kanzaki
Tenmei Basara as Ra-Dorudo-Gu
Yudai Ishiyama as Sadao Matsukura
Yuka Takeshima as Mika Natsume
Japanese companies
English staff
English companies
Blu-Ray Producer: Brian Ward (Shout! Factory)
Packaging Design: Andrew Robinson (Shout! Factory)
Trailer: Mike Dent
Internet Streaming:
ShoutFactory TV (United States and Canada)
Tubi TV (via ShoutFactory TV; United States and Canada)
YouTube (via Toei Tokusatsu World Official)
Licensed by: Shout! Factory
Production Subsidy: J-LOD (Toei Tokusatsu World Official sub; eps 1-2)
English cast
(none)

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