This article is about a/an list of actors in the Kamen Rider Series. |
Suit actors (スーツアクター sūtsu akutā) are members of Japanese tokusatsu productions who perform all of their stunts in a full costume (identity obscured), and performs pantomime, while the story-wise character's actor's voice is added through ADR (アフレコ afureko, lit. after-recording).
When the franchise began, Hiroshi Fujioka had not only played Takeshi Hongo, but also performed his own stunts as Kamen Rider. The practice with suit actors began after Fujioka famously shattered his leg in a motorcycle stunt gone wrong, resulting in him being replaced by Takeshi Sasaki as a new rider, with Hiroshi Fujioka returning to the show alongside Sasaki after recovering. To ultimately prevent accidents like this from happening again, no other actor has performed their own suit acting on any Tokusatsu production, minus a few exceptions.
Suit actors by series
Makoto Ito (Sub)
Jun Watanabe (Secondary in Movie War 2010/Movie War Core)
Ryo Yokota (Sub in summer movie)
Hideki Sugiguchi (extreme martial arts)
Kazuya Okada (Secondary in The Fateful Sengoku Movie Battle/Main in Kamen Rider Taisen)
Seiji Takaiwa (Level 2, Level XX R, Level 99, Muteki Gamer)
Jun Watanabe (Level XX L)
Yuya Nawata (Episode 45, Heisei Generations FINAL)
Various Legend/Future Riders: Yuji Nakata
Seiji Takaiwa (Episode 48)
Helmetless Riders
While it's the suit actors that are mostly in the suit, there have been cases where actors themselves have worn their character's Rider suits.
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- Akihiro Haga
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- Hideaki Kusaka
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- Hirofumi Fukuzawa
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- Hiroshi Fujioka
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- Kazuo Niibori
- Kazutoshi Yokoyama
- Kazuya Okada
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- Keizo Yabe
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- Kenji Ohba
- Kenji Tominaga
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- Kosuke Asai
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- Makoto Ito
- Mark Musashi
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- Masaru Okada
- Masashi Shirai
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- Minami Tsukui
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- Mitsutoshi Shiroya
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- Motokuni Nakagawa
- Sanae Hitomi
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- Takehisa Yamaguchi
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- Tatsuya Kaneko
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