2023 ‘シン・仮面ライダー’ Directed by Hideaki Anno
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.
Shin Masked Rider, New Kamen Rider, New Masked Rider, The True Kamen Rider, 新．幪面超人, 新．假面騎士, Šin Kamen Rider, 신 가면라이더, Новый Камен Райдер, ชิน•มาสค์ไรเดอร์, Шин Камен Райдер, 新·假面骑士
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Hate to say it but the Japanese might get capeshit more than we do. The bad guys being mad scientists that immediately get betrayed by every single one of their creations, all the emotional scenes being centered around going somewhere to talk to your mask, the impractical yet intimidating costumes. These were all capeshit technologies thought to be lost for centuries
Seeing this on an IMAX screen opening day in Tokyo inside a theater with a giant Godzilla head on the roof was one of the high points of my life. Anno is a master. On a very short list of my heroes. Didn’t understand much of it. 10/10. Perfect movie. The way he remixed elements from the original pilot was fascinating. Every time KR punched a bad guy their head popped like a water balloon filled with blood. Pure cinema.
If someone in America made a superhero movie with the energy of this or SHIN ULTRAMAN it would bring that corpse of a genre back to life.
This plays like a KAMEN RIDER compilation film, that is somehow, made up of entirely new material.
It starts at 120MPH (the action scene posted by the studio on Youtube is literally the first few minutes) and proceeds to vacillate between visually imaginative fight scenes and incredibly dense exposition drops - that will leave audiences not familiar with the KAMEN basics hopelessly lost. If you aren't familiar with how a human being turned into KAMEN RIDER, you won't learn it here.
Writer/Director Hideaki Anno doesn't find a new modern-day angle on the property as he did with SHIN GODZILLA, but instead crafts a breathless approximation of the movie an 8-year-old fantasizes about after someone described the plot of KAMEN RIDER…
Recommended by dliu.
This movie is bonkers. After Shin Godzilla and Ultraman, I was totally unprepared for the intense amount of bloodshed, bizarre mutant special effects and rawwwk music this one throws at you. It's totally overwhelming and silly and fun.
It is interesting to see Anno revisit the spiritual and reflective area of work he's become known for since Evangelion took off with sad boys everywhere, and there are a lot of interesting ideas at play. But I the exploration of those themes does appear sort of at odds with the goofiness of the action, no matter how many quiet scenes are thrown in to discuss morality and despair.
It's definitely worth checking out though, especially if you're a fan of people's faces exploding into goo.
Not everything in this worked for me, but I liked it because it shows how insane you can get and how much fun you can have doing a super hero movie with a fraction of the budget of its American counterparts. I also loved Hideaki Anno's signature shots of infrastructure and landscapes strangely denuded of human beings.
anno remains the unimpeachable master of fetishistic blockbusters with SHIN KAMEN RIDER: as much a heartfelt dedication to his love for the source material as it is a surprising, challenging, brutal and totally original piece of tonal filmmaking. nothing else on earth feels like this does in its bone cracking gory rhythm, the editing and cinematography so stylized a simple cut will leave you gasping. by refusing to make any sort of concession towards general audiences, he births a world you’d be extremely hard pressed to find in the popular cinema of any country at any era in history. that this reaches for a deep humanism is even more inspiring. the west must emulate japan immediately when it comes to approaching the nebulous crap that is “superheroes” — something with even a scrap of anno’s perverse originality could literally save america
Costumo brincar dizendo que Shin Godzilla é a live-action não-oficial de Evangelion por conta das batalhas que emulam o estilo das lutas contra os Anjos de EVA (montagem, trilha sonora, estrutura). Quem é fã de EVA, vai perceber elementos do anime em Shin Kamen Rider, como o foco no aspecto psicológico dos personagens, as alegorias bíblicas, o design de produção e alguns planos que remetem imagens do anime. O mais interessante disso, é perceber como o Anno consegue combinar os elementos formais de seu cinema com a tradição clássica dos Tokusatsus. Por isso o Universo Shin é tão interessante esteticamente, pelo uso de CGI e técnicas que modernizam o Tokusatu, mas de uma forma que mantém um caráter artesanal da imagem e de suas figuras, passado e futuro coexistem narrativa e visualmente.
É sempre lindo ver o Anno inserindo gravação de baixa qualidade nas suas obras.
idk man!! Visual ingenuity and Anno-isms abound, which for the people who hold Resident Evil Afterlife as the high water mark of digital cinema will be more than enough, but this also feels more like work for hire than anything Anno’s ever done. Where “Shins” Godzilla and Ultraman were eager to tease grandiose philosophical and political meanings out of their respective icons of Japanese pop mythology, this one is mainly content to exist as straightforward pastiche, alternatingly knowingly campy and drearily self-serious - which might not be an issue if its capacity for emotionally involving the audience wasn’t so contingent on a pre-existing investment in the Kamen Rider franchise, of which this feels like an extremely compressed digest film. (This was…
god DAMN! the action in this is all so incredible, bodycam tokyo fist total carnage (love the tsukamoto cameo), crazy cgi shit, awesome suits, and all without sacrificing anno’s themes or heart or complete inability to write a movie plot instead of a Weird TV Show
there are probably about a hundred reasons i could find to justify disliking this movie if i was so inclined but honestly i cant imagine a worse use of my time than disliking shin kamen rider, when it, more than any other film, reminded me most of what it was like to play with toys as a kid, not just in the for-funs-sake nature of the action, but for the kinda stilted bobbing and weaving between narrative and action, the clumsy emotional beats, and the utter disregard for justifying what really just does Not need to be justified if you just loosen your passenger-side seatbelt and roll down the window and be okay with the fact that your friend is…
poststructuralist film (literally!) ive forgotten how deeply i’ve internalized annos film language into my own and it felt as though i was witnessing the abstract of manga panels converge with the perspective of camera eyes- the first superhero film since Unbreakable to understand loneliness and collectivity are linked in surviving and developing the survival of others, cried a lot
