Samurai Sentai Shinkenger
| Samurai Sentai Shinkenger | |
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Samurai Sentai Shinkenger title card | |
| Genre | Tokusatsu Superhero fiction Action Historical drama |
| Created by | Toei Company |
| Written by | Yasuko Kobayashi Akatsuki Yamatoya Daisuke Ishibashi |
| Directed by | Shōjirō Nakazawa Takayuki Shibasaki Noboru Takemoto Hiroyuki Kato Katsuya Watanabe Takao Nagaishi Satoshi Morota |
| Starring | |
| Voices of | |
| Narrated by | Hironori Miyata |
| Opening theme | "Samurai Sentai Shinkenger" by Psychic Lover (Project.R) |
| Ending theme | "Shirokujimuchū Shinkenger" by Hideaki Takatori (Project.R) |
| Composer | Hiroshi Takaki |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| No. of episodes | 49 (list of episodes) |
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| Production location | Tokyo, Japan (Greater Tokyo Area) |
| Running time | 24–25 minutes |
| Production companies | TV Asahi Toei Company Toei Agency |
| Original release | |
| Network | TV Asahi |
| Release | February 15, 2009 – February 7, 2010 |
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Samurai Sentai Shinkenger (侍戦隊シンケンジャー, Samurai Sentai Shinkenjā; Samurai Squadron Shinkenger) is the title of Toei Company's thirty-third entry in its long-running Super Sentai metaseries of Japanese tokusatsu television series. It aired from February 15, 2009, to February 7, 2010, replacing Engine Sentai Go-onger and was replaced by Tensou Sentai Goseiger. It joined Kamen Rider Decade as a program featured in TV Asahi's Super Hero Time programming block, and following Decade's finale, it aired alongside Kamen Rider W. It incorporates elements from the Jidaigeki drama genre and Japanese themes and aesthetics. This is the first Super Sentai series to be filmed in HD with an HD camera having its resolution done at 720p.
Its footage and storyline was used for the American series Power Rangers Samurai and its follow up season, Super Samurai.