Ninja Sentai Kakuranger

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Ninja Sentai Kakuranger (???????????, Ninja Sentai Kakurenj?) is a Japanese tokusatsu television series. It was Toei Company Limited's eighteenth production of the Super Sentai television series. The name given to this series by Toei for international distribution is Ninja Rangers.

Action footage from the series was used in the third season of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers. The core Zyuranger costumes from Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger and the Kiba Ranger costume from Gosei Sentai Dairanger were mainly used in the third season of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers while the core Kakuranger costumes were used in Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers. In January 2016, Shout! Factory announced that they would release "Ninja Sentai Kakuranger: The Complete Series" on DVD in North America. Kakuranger was released on DVD in North America on May 17, 2016. This is the third Super Sentai Series to be released in North America. In addition on May 22, 2017, Shout! streamed the series on their website.

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Plot

Four hundred years ago, the ninja and the Youkai had a great war. The legendary Sarutobi Sasuke and four other ninjas sealed the Youkai Commander Nurarihyon and all his Youkai's energies away in a cave protected by the "Seal Door". In the present, one of the few remaining Youkai, Kappa, tricks Sarutobi Sasuke and Kirigakure Saizo's descendants, Saizou and Sasuke, into releasing the Youkai by opening the "Seal Door". Now these two, joined by three other descendants of great ninjas, become the Kakuranger to fight the reinvigorated Youkai with the aid of the Sanshinshou. However, the Kakurangers have their work cut out for them as the Youkai are slowly being united under one banner.

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Characters

Kakurangers

Each member is named after a legendary ninja and master of the Hidden Style Ninjutsu (Kakurery? Ninjutsu).

Sasuke/Ninja Red (???/???????, Sasuke/Ninja Reddo)

26 years old, descendant of Sarutobi Sasuke.

Tsuruhime/Ninja White (??/????????, Tsuruhime/Ninja Howaito)

15 years old (16 during Part II of the series), the twenty fourth protector of the Seal Door and the first female leader of a Sentai.

Saizou/Ninja Blue (????/???????, Saiz?/Ninja Bur?)

22 years old, descendant of Kirigakure Saizo.

Seikai/Ninja Yellow (????/????????, Seikai/Ninja Ier?)

24 years old, descendant of Miyoshi Seikai.

Jiraiya/Ninja Black (????/????????, Jiraiya/Ninja Burakku)

20 years old, descendant of Jiraiya.

Ninjaman (??????, Ninjaman, 36-50, 52 & 53)

The pupil of the Sanshinshou, who was trapped within a blue pot as punishment a millennium ago for allowing himself to be fooled by Daimaou to attack the humans.

Youkai Army Corps

The Youkai Army Corps (????, Y?kai Gundan, Apparition Army Corps) were sealed away 400 years ago by the Kakurangers' ancestors and have now changed their forms in order to keep up with the times. Most Youkai have a human form and use the Ninja Arts themselves. When defeated, they summon lightning made of human despair and misery to strike them, causing them to grow into giants.

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Episodes

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Movie

The movie version of Ninja Sentai Kakuranger, directed by Sh?hei T?j? and written by Noboru Sugimura, premiered in Japan on April 16, 1994, at Toei Super Hero Fair '94. It was originally shown as a triple feature alongside Kamen Rider J and the feature film version of Blue SWAT. The villains in the movie consisted of the One-Eyed Brothers and ?ny?d?. The movie was filmed between Episodes 7 and 8, but is actually set between episodes 8 and 9.

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Crossovers

The Kakuranger team was the main focus in the 1994 3D featurette Super Sentai World, which features them teaming up with the four previous Super Sentai teams (Fiveman, Jetman, Zyuranger, and Dairanger).

A second crossover film was released in the form of Ch?riki Sentai Ohranger: Olé vs. Kakuranger (??????????? ???VS???????), a 1996 direct-to-video movie which features the Kakurangers working together with the Ohrangers to defeat a common adversary.

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Cast

• Sasuke (???, Sasuke): Teruaki Ogawa (?? ??, Ogawa Teruaki)
• Tsuruhime (??, Tsuruhime): Satomi Hirose (?? ??, Hirose Satomi)
• Saizou (????, Saiz?): Hiroshi Tsuchida (?? ?, Tsuchida Hiroshi)
• Seikai (????, Seikai): Shu Kawai (?? ?, Kawai Sh?)
• Jiraiya (????, Jiraiya): Kane Kosugi (???????, Kein Kosugi)
• Ninjaman (??????, Ninjaman, voice): Kazuki Yao (?? ??, Yao Kazuki)
• Sandayu Momochi (?????, Momochi Sanday?): Akira Sakamoto
• Taro (??, Tar?): Daisuke Tsuchiya
• Jiro (??, Jir?): Keisuke Tsuchiya
• Junior: Kenichi Endo (?? ??, End? Ken'ichi)
• Daimaou (???, Daima?, voice): Hidekatsu Shibata (?? ??, Shibata Hidekatsu)
• Ninja Gattai Muteki Shogun (????????, Ninja Gattai Muteki Sh?gun, voice): Tomoyuki Horita (?? ??, Horita Tomoyuki)
• Goshin Gattai Kakure Daishogun (????????, Goshin Gattai Kakure Daish?gun, voice), Seinin Beast Tsubasamaru (????????, Seininj? Tsubasamaru, voice): Dai Matsumoto (?? ?, Matsumoto Dai)
• K?shakushi (???): Sany?tei Enj? (??? ??)

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Songs

Opening theme

• "Secret Kakuranger" (?????? ???????, Shikuretto Kakurenj?)
  • Lyrics: Hanadaiko Fuyumori (?? ???, Fuyumori Hanadaiko)
  • Composition: Takashi Tsushimi (??? ?, Tsushimi Takeshi)
  • Arrangement: Kenji Yamamoto
  • Artist: Tu Chee Chen (??????????, T? Ch? Chen)

  Takashi Tsushimi performed under the name "Tu Chee Chen", which is the Japanese approximation of his surname as read in Mandarin Chinese: D?u Zhì Jiàn.

Ending theme

• "Ninja Skyscraper Kids" (????!??????, Ninja! Mantenr? Kizzu)
  • Lyrics: Hanadaiko Fuyamori
  • Composition: Takeshi Tsushimi
  • Arrangement: Kenji Yamamoto
  • Artist: Tu Chee Chen

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Notes

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References

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External links

• Official Ninja Sentai Kakuranger website (in Japanese)
• Official Shout! Factory page
• Official Shout Factory TV page

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