Kamen Rider ZO
| Kamen Rider ZO | |||||
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| Kanji | 仮面ライダーZO | ||||
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| Directed by | Keita Amemiya | ||||
| Written by | Noboru Sugimura | ||||
| Produced by | Yoshinori Watanabe Makoto Yamashina Ryonori Watanabe Shigeru Watanabe Satoshi Kubo Nagadumi Hori Tomoo Kakuta | ||||
| Starring | Kou Domon Shohei Shibata Isao Sasaki | ||||
| Cinematography | Fumio Matsumura | ||||
| Edited by | Junkichi Kanno | ||||
| Music by | Eiji Kawamura | ||||
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| Distributed by | Toei | ||||
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Running time | 48 minutes | ||||
| Country | Japan | ||||
| Language | Japanese | ||||
| Budget | ¥300 million ($2.8 million) | ||||
Kamen Rider ZO (仮面ライダーZO, Kamen Raidā Zetto Ō), translated Masked Rider ZO, is a 1993 Japanese tokusatsu superhero film directed by Keita Amemiya and co-produced between Toei Company and Bandai. A Sega CD interactive movie was released for ZO in 1994, and was distributed in the United States as The Masked Rider: Kamen Rider ZO.
To commemorate the series' 40th anniversary, ZO was shown on Toei's pay-per-view channel in September 2011. The film's protagonist, Kamen Rider ZO, appears in the later Kamen Rider Decade television series and is a playable character in the 2011 Nintendo DS video game All Kamen Rider: Rider Generation. Media Blasters licensed Kamen Rider ZO for a Region 1 Blu-ray release, along with Shin: Kamen Rider Prologue, Kamen Rider J, and the short Kamen Rider World. A limited Collector’s Edition featuring World and a special interview with Director Keita Amemiya was released in the summer of 2024 exclusively on the Media Blasters website, while a Standard Edition of the Blu-ray for the wider market is set to be released in April of 2025. This version of the Blu-ray however does not contain neither the short nor the interview.