The Moon Mask Rider

月光仮面

Title:

The Moon Mask Rider

Genres:

Action , Adventure

Companies:

Premier International Corporation, Toei Company

Countries:

Japan

Release Date:

1981-03-14

Runtime:

Languages:

日本語

Status:

Released

Tagline:

"A super hero on a super bike now on screen in a super live action."

Overview

The Moon Mask Rider is a tokusatsu movie produced by Purumie International/Herald Enterprises and distributed by Nippon Herald Pictures, was released theatrically on March 14, 1981. Considered Japan's answer to the American box-office fiasco, The Legend of the Lone Ranger (released the same year), this updated version of the Moonlight Mask legend bombed at the Japanese box-office. Daisuke Kuwahara (who, like Klinton Spilsbury , disappeared from doing films) plays George Owara (Moon Mask Rider's new alter-ego), and the rest of the cast made up of veteran action starlets: Sue Shihomi, Daijiro Harada and Takayuki Godai.