The legendary mangaka Shotaro Ishinomori created Kamen Rider for TV in the early ’70s. During its initial 98-episode run, the style and tone changed pretty drastically. Starting as a dark, moody ...

The Shin Universe has taken the opportunity to allow legendary creator Hideaki Anno re-imagine some of the biggest properties in the world of Japanese pop culture. While we’ve already witnessed the ...

We begin with two unique films in entirely different genres to kick off our Fantasia Film Festival review coverage. The first is a reimagining of a classic Japanese character known as Shin Kamen Rider ...

Shin Kamen Rider, which directly means "New Masked Rider" in English, follows the first Kamen Rider TV series from 1974 that launched a franchise that never disappeared. There's been a new Kamen Rider ...

The Shin Universe is a film series that drastically re-imagined some of the biggest heroes and villains of Japanese pop culture. With both Godzilla and Ultraman receiving makeovers from the creator of ...

Hideaki Anno released two teaser trailers for Shin Kamen Rider, a remake/reboot movie of the classic original 1971 superhero TV series that he's writing and directing. The teaser replicates the look, ...

A Shin Kamen Rider trailer has been released for the fourth movie in Hideaki Anno’s Shin series, which serves as a reboot of the 1971 Kamen Rider series. “College student and motorcycle enthusiast ...

"Shin Kamen Rider" is the first live-action film directed by Hideaki Anno since "Shin Godzilla" seven years ago. In the 52-year history of the "Masked Rider" series, this is the first time that ...

The villainous organisation SHOCKER (short for: Sustainable Happiness Organization with Computational Knowledge Embedded Remodeling) transforms humans into human-animal hybrids, called Augments or ...

Hideaki Anno has stealthily become the No. 1 re-interpreter of Japanese pop culture. After creating Neon Genesis Evangelion in the mid ’90s, he spent most of the ensuing 25 years issuing redos of it ...

Hongo Takeshi awakens to discover he has been transformed into a grasshopper-hybrid cyborg. Becoming the Masked Rider, he must fight the mysterious evil organization SHOCKER to protect all of mankind.