This article is about a list of actors in the Kamen Rider Series. |
A Suit actor (スーツアクター, sūtsu akutā) is a member of a Japanese tokusatsu production who performs stunts in a full costume that normally obscures their identity from the viewer and performs pantomime, while the story-wise character's actor's voice is added through ADR (アフレコ, afureko, lit. after-recording). Today, most (if not all) suit actors employed for the production of Kamen Rider and other tokusatsu franchises are affiliated with Japan Action Enterprise.
Suit actors by series[]
Helmetless Riders[]
When the franchise began, Hiroshi Fujioka did not only portray his own character, but also performed his own stunts in-suit. However, Fujioka famously shattered his leg in a motorcycle stunt gone wrong, resulting in him being replaced by Takeshi Sasaki as a new rider, with Fujioka returning to the show alongside Sasaki after recovering. Today, tarento actors are prohibited from performing their own suit-acting to prevent Fujioka's incident from happening again. Some actors/actresses are exceptions, such as Minami Tsukui, Kenji Ohba, and Jyunichi Haruta, as they are all experienced and trained stuntmen/women associated with the JAE.
Although this is often the case, there have been some occasions where tarento actors/actresses have worn their Rider suits and appeared helmetless on-screen for the sake of the plot, or have put on the suit behind-the-scenes.
References[]
- ↑ https://japanactionenterprise.com/news/0454/
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Uchusen Vol. 172 p. 64-65
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- Hajime Kanzaki
- Hibiki Otsuki
- Hideaki Kusaka
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- Hideki Sugiguchi
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- Hikaru Okada
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- Hikaru Yoshida
- Hiroaki Nakamura
- Hiroaki Ohashi
- Hirofumi Fukuzawa
- Hirokazu Iwakami
- Hirokazu Shoji
- Hiroo Kawarazaki
- Hiroshi Atsumi
- Hiroshi Fujioka
- Hiroshi Maeda
- Hirotsugu Mori
- Hiroyuki Muraoka
- Hiroyuki Tanaka
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- Kai Nakayama
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- Kazuo Niibori
- Kazutaka Nakagawa
- Kazutoshi Yokoyama
- Kazuya Okada
- Kefi Abrikh
- Kei Saeki
- Keigō Arizono
- Keiko Hashimoto
- Keisuke Azuma
- Keisuke Chiyoda
- Keita Osone
- Keito Hotta
- Keizo Yabe
- Kenichi Sato
- Kenji Ohba
- Kenji Tominaga
- Kento Sekiya
- Kenya Oiwa
- Kenya Saitou
- Kiyohito Nakagawa
- Kohei Matsuoka
- Koji Matoba
- Koji Shirahama
- Kosuke Asai
- Kotaro Kaji
- Kouji Mimura
- Kyouhei Ooho
- Makoto Arakawa
- Makoto Endo
- Makoto Ito
- Manami Iida
- Mark Musashi
- Masaaki Kurita
- Masaki Sugahara
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- Masaru Obayashi
- Masaru Okada
- Masashi Shirai
- Masashi Takada
- Masato Tsutamune
- Matsuri Kamisato
- Maya Yamaguchi
- Miho Kojima
- Minami Tsukui
- Minoru Watanabe
- Mitsuki Honda
- Mitsutoshi Shiroya
- Mizuho Nogawa
- Mizuho Yoshida
- Momoka Takasaki
- Momoka Yasukawa
- Momotaro Sakae
- Motoko Nagino
- Motokuni Nakagawa
- Mutsumi Igarashi
- Tadahiro Nakamura
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- Takahiro Yoneoka
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- Takako Iiboshi
- Takanori Maekawa (actor, born 1986)
- Takashi Furuya
- Takashi Tanimoto
- Takayuki Kitamura
- Takehisa Yamaguchi
- Takeshi Mizutani
- Takeshi Sato
- Takeyuki Honda
- Takuma Komori
- Takumi Narita
- Takuya Kanayama
- Tatsuya Kaneko
- Tetsuya Nakayashiki
- Tokio Iwata
- Tomohiko Akiyama
- Tomotaka Watanabe
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- Toshihiro Ogura
- Toshinori Sasaki
- Toshiyuki Kikuchi
- Tsubasa Honda
- Tsutomu Kitagawa
- Yasuaki Ishii
- Yasuhiko Imai
- Yasuhiro Takeuchi
- Yasunari Tsukagoshi
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- Yohei Fujita
- Yoshie Seki
- Yoshifumi Oshikawa
- Yoshikatsu Fujiki
- Yugo Fujii
- Yuichi Hachisuka
- Yuji Nakata
- Yuka Kamihirata
- Yuki Miyazawa
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- Yume Sakanashi
- Yumi Sunaoshi
- Yuta Hamazaki
- Yuto Kikuchi
- Yuuki Ono
- Yuutarou Oosugi
- Yuya Nawata