{"id":16099,"date":"2023-12-22T22:00:43","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T03:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16099"},"modified":"2023-12-22T15:53:42","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T20:53:42","slug":"shin-kamen-rider-2023-hideaki-anno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16099","title":{"rendered":"Shin Kamen Rider (2023, Hideaki Anno)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Kamen&#8221; just means masked, he&#8217;s a masked rider.  <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15402\">More<\/a> shin silliness, this one hitting some <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15792\">Smoking Causes Coughing<\/a><\/em> heights of absurdity.  Professor Shinya Tsukamoto explains all backstory to our Rider (Sosuke Ikematsu, star of Tsukamoto&#8217;s <em>Killing<\/em>) then promptly dies, melting into soap bubbles, as do all deceased heroes and villains.  Rider is strong, punching henchmen into fountains of blood, teams up with Ruri-Ruri (Minami Hamabe of the new <em>Godzilla Minus One<\/em>) to defeat a series of insect-themed baddies.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/shinkamen1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/shinkamen2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Some real Evangelion-ish lines, and I like how the movie comes to a full stop for long minutes while a character calmly unpacks their emotions.  Android Ruri&#8217;s evil brother Butterfly and Rider 1 have a fatal duel, but there&#8217;s a second Rider (he and Butterfly were both voices in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15228\">Inu-Oh<\/a><\/em>) who will carry on the legacy, going on new adventures with Rider 1&#8217;s spirit inside his helmet, a <em>Heat Vision &#038; Jack<\/em> situation.  Government guys Tachi and Taki are the only actors who&#8217;ve been in all three Shin <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/13204\">movies<\/a>.  One villain was Ichi The Killer himself &#8211; why do I <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/13470\">never<\/a> recognize him? &#8211; another played the wife whose husband is an alien in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15030\">Before We Vanish<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/shinkamen3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/shinkamen4.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Kamen&#8221; just means masked, he&#8217;s a masked rider. More shin silliness, this one hitting some Smoking Causes Coughing heights of absurdity. Professor Shinya Tsukamoto explains all backstory to our Rider (Sosuke Ikematsu, star of Tsukamoto&#8217;s Killing) then promptly dies, melting into soap bubbles, as do all deceased heroes and villains. Rider is strong, punching henchmen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[624,2571,36,179,454,641],"class_list":["post-16099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-giant-monsters","tag-hideaki-anno","tag-japan","tag-remake","tag-robots","tag-shinya-tsukamoto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16099"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16119,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16099\/revisions\/16119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}