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Kamen Rider Amazon (live-action TV)

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Alternative title:
Amazon Rider
Masked Rider Amazon (Japanese)
仮面ライダーアマゾン (Japanese)
Objectionable content: Mild
Plot Summary: A young Japanese boy survives a plane crash in the Amazon jungle of South America and is raised by a witch doctor. Many years later, the young man is given an arm bracelet with the ability to transform him into a reptile-man. Calling himself "Amazon," the young man stows away in a ship and goes to Japan, where he befriends a boy named Masahiko Omamura. When Masahiko is attacked by a monster, Amazon transforms into his reptilian alter-ego to defeat the monster. Because of his ability, he is then given the name Kamen Rider Amazon.
Running time: 29 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 24
Episode titles: We have 24
Vintage: 1974-10-19 to 1975-03-29
Opening Theme:
"Amazon Rider Koko ni Ari" by Masato Shimon
Ending Theme:
"Amazon Da-Da-Da!!" by Masato Shimon and Columbia Yurikago
Trivia: We have 3
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    Kamen Rider Amazon (Sub.Blu-ray) 2025-10-28 (from $49.95)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Script:
Ikuro Suzuki (9 episodes
eps 5-6, 10-11, 16, 18-19, 23-24
)
Kimio Hirayama (eps 1-4)
Masaru Igami (8 episodes
eps 7, 9, 12-15, 20, 22
)
Seiji Matsuoka (ep 17)
Shozo Murayama (eps 8, 21)
Takao Nagaishi (eps 1-4)
Tohru Hirayama (eps 1-4)
Episode Director:
Issaku Uchida (6 episodes
eps 5-6, 15-16, 23-24
)
Itaru Orita (eps 17-18)
Katsuhiko Taguchi (eps 9-10, 21-22)
Masaki Tsukada (8 episodes
eps 1-2, 7-8, 13-14, 19-20
)
Minoru Yamada (eps 3-4, 11-12)
Music: Shunsuke Kikuchi
Original creator: Shōtarō Ishinomori

Planning:
Seiji Abe
Tohru Hirayama
Theme Song Composition: Shunsuke Kikuchi
Theme Song Lyrics:
Saburō Yatsude (ED)
Shōtarō Ishinomori (OP)
Theme Song Performance:
Columbia Yurikago-kai (ED)
Masato Shimon
Tōru Okazaki as Daisuke Yamamoto / Kamen Rider Amazon
Yōji Matsuda as Masahiko Omamura

Akiji Kobayashi as Tôbei 'Oya-san' Tachibana
Hirohisa Nakata as Emperor Zero

Eken Mine as
Jūjin Hebitonbo (eps 13-14)
Kani-Jūjin (ep 9)
Gorō Naya as Narrator
Hideo Nihei as Prof. Sōzō Yamamura (ep 4)
Mariko Matsuoka as Ritsuko Okamura
Osamu Saka as The Ruler of Garanda Empire
Ritsuo Sawa as Ten-Faced Demon Gorgos
Ryūji Saikachi as Mogura Beastman
Ushio Akashi as Elder Bago
Japanese companies
English staff
English companies
Liner Notes: Mike Dent (Essay extra)
Internet Streaming: YouTube (via Toei Tokusatsu World Official)
Licensed by: Discotek Media
Production Subsidy: J-LOD (sub; eps 1-2)
English cast
(none)

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