Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider OOO & W Featuring Skull: Movie War Core

Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider OOO & W Featuring Skull: Movie War Core (劇場版 仮面ライダー×仮面ライダー オーズ&ダブル feat.スカル MOVIE大戦CORE, Gekijōban Kamen Raidā × Kamen Raidā Ōzu Ando Daburu Fīcharingu Sukaru Mūbī Taisen Koa) is a 2010 tokusatsu drama crossover film in the Kamen Rider franchise that features the casts and characters of Kamen Rider W and Kamen Rider OOO. It was originally announced in a teaser at the end of the film Kamen Rider W Forever: A to Z/The Gaia Memories of Fate and was released in Japan on December 18, 2010.[1]

Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider OOO & W Featuring Skull: Movie War Core
Promotional poster for Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider OOO & W Featuring Skull: Movie War Core
Japanese劇場版 仮面ライダー×仮面ライダー オーズ&ダブル feat.スカル MOVIE大戦CORE
HepburnGekijōban Kamen Raidā × Kamen Raidā Ōzu Ando Daburu Fīcharingu Sukaru Mūbī Taisen Koa
Directed byRyuta Tasaki
Written by
Produced by
Starring
Narrated by
CinematographyKoji Kurata
Edited byNaoki Osada
Music by
Production
company
Distributed byToei Co. Ltd
Release date
  • December 18, 2010 (2010-12-18)
Running time
  • 90 minutes
  • 107 minutes (Director's Cut)
CountriesJapan
Brazil
LanguageJapanese

Similarly to Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider W & Decade: Movie War 2010, Movie War Core is split into three parts. The Kamen Rider W segment of the film, written by Riku Sanjo, takes place after the series epilogue and features Akiko Narumi preparing for and contemplating cancelling her wedding when her Kamen Rider friends become distracted by the Pteranodon Yummy (プテラノドンヤミー, Puteranodon Yamī) after it acquires the Memory Gaia Memory and uses it to show her how her father, Sokichi Narumi, became Kamen Rider Skull.[2] The Kamen Rider OOO segment of the film, written by Toshiki Inoue, sees the Kougami Foundation discovering the mummified remains of Oda Nobunaga and creating a Cell Medal-based homunculus of the man with his memories. He runs from the Kougami Foundation and into Eiji Hino's care. However, Nobunaga attempts to resume his conquest of Japan while targeting the descendants of those responsible for his downfall. After being forced into becoming a mindless Greeed, Eiji must stop Nobunaga before it is too late.[2] The final segment sees the casts of the two TV series come together to fight the monstrous Kamen Rider Core when he threatens to destroy the world.

Movie War Core opened at number 1 in Japanese box offices in its first weekend, unseating Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 from its two-week position.[3]

Plot

Skull: Message for W

While fighting the male Pteranodon Yummy, Kamen Rider W receives aid from Ryu Terui, who is forced to fight without his Rider equipment due to his bride-to-be Akiko Narumi, who wants her friends to focus on her wedding. After the Yummy escapes, a tearful Akiko threatens to call off the wedding, but reveals she is upset because her deceased father, Sokichi Narumi, is unable to attend. Demanding to know why he became a Kamen Rider, the Pteranodon Yummy returns and uses the Memory Gaia Memory on her.

She finds herself witnessing a memory from Sokichi's past wherein he was working a case involving opera singer, Melissa, and an inhuman stalker. While watching Melissa's latest performance, Sokichi meets her seedy manager Kozo Yaguchi before Melissa's stalker, the Spider Dopant, attacks. Sokichi fights the criminal before the latter disappears with Gaia Memory dealer Eren Komori. Despite his partner Seiichiro "Matsu" Matsui's objections, Sokichi continues to investigate Melissa. He meets with his benefactor, Shroud, who tells him the Museum crime syndicate are moving forward with their master plan. While meeting with Matsu, Sokichi learns that Yaguchi's previous female clients have gone missing.

Receiving help from an informant named Stone, Sokichi breaks into the Yaguchi Talent Agency, where he finds the missing women are being used as test subjects for Gaia Memory research before being forced to watch Komori transform into the Bat Dopant and kill Stone. She and the Spider Dopant overwhelm Sokichi, but Shroud gives him the means to transform into Kamen Rider Skull. He defeats Komori's grunts, but she uses her powers to pin him down. After receiving a call from a young Akiko and promising to attend her future wedding, a reinvigorated Sokichi escapes Komori's grasp and pursues her and the Spider Dopant, only to find Yaguchi, who reveals he was only the Museum's Gaia Memory supplier before he is killed by a Spider Bomb concealed in his wife.

The next day, Sokichi deduces Matsu is the Spider Dopant and confronts him. Exposed, Matsu tries to defend himself until Melissa reveals Matsu took the Spider Gaia Memory to protect her from Yaguchi and that it warped his mind. Having previously implanted her with a Spider Bomb that will explode if she touches the person she loves and he fails to activate it, Matsu goes mad and kidnaps Melissa. After killing Komori when she tries to impede him, Sokichi pursues and eventually kills Matsu.

As Akiko emerges from the memory, the Pteranodon Yummy escapes once more.

OOO: Nobunaga's Desire

The Kougami Foundation finds Oda Nobunaga's mummified remains and use it to create a Cell Medal-based homunculus, which soon escapes and transforms into a monster. It attacks a man, but Eiji Hino transforms into Kamen Rider OOO to fight it off. While pursuing the monster, he finds a near-unconscious man and takes him to the Cous Coussier restaurant, where the man introduces himself as Nobunaga, but fails to remember anything else. After visiting a library, Nobunaga starts learning at an astonishing rate. Amazed, Hino takes Nobunaga under his wing and helps him get a job at a software company.

The next day, Nobunaga meets ballerina Yoshino Akechi and falls in love with her. When the male Pteranodon Yummy attacks them, Nobunaga receives the Birth Driver from Kougami Foundation head, Kousei Kougami, and transforms into Kamen Rider Birth to fight the monster off and gain popularity. However, Nobunaga transforms into the monster Hino fought previously and causes Akechi to sprain her leg while attempting to kill her.

As a heartbroken Hino fights Nobunaga, a Greeed named Giru uses Akechi to create a female Pteranodon Yummy, who attacks Hino and Nobunaga. The former destroys it while the latter suffers from Cell Medal breakdown. Visiting a hospitalized Akechi, Nobunaga uses the last of his power to heal her before scientist Kiyoto Maki gives him three black Core Medals, which enhances Nobunaga's monstrous form. Upon confronting Nobunaga once more, Hino kills him to end his suffering. However, the black Core Medals fly off, with Hino in pursuit.

Movie War Core

Having obtained the most intense memories of Kamen Rider battles, the male Pteranodon Yummy is caught off guard when the black Core Medals appear and combine with the Memory Memory and form the giant Kamen Rider Core. It attacks Akiko, but she is saved by Hino, who assures her Sokichi had his reasons for being a Kamen Rider before joining forces with W to fight Core. Taking the fight underground, W and Hino find a crystal powering Core near his namesake and destroy it along with Core, shattering the components that created it and causing Hino to end up in Rio de Janeiro. Meanwhile, Terui persuades Akiko to give him his equipment back so he can protect her from the male Pteranodon Yummy. Gaining help from Shintaro Goto, Terui destroys the Yummy. With her faith in Kamen Riders restored, everyone hurries back to Akiko's wedding, where Melissa arrives to take Sokichi's place and reveals he was also implanted with a Spider Bomb, which did not die with the Dopant.

Casting

Actor Tarō Yamamoto guest stars in the film as the former partner of Sokichi Narumi, with Koji Kikkawa reprising his role as the character.[4]

Production

It has been stated that the OOO segment of the film is does not take place in the continuity seen in the series. Movie War Core is the first Kamen Rider film not to be shot entirely in Japan, as filming also took place in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro for the Brazil segment near the end of the film.

Cast

W cast
  • Shotaro Hidari (左 翔太郎, Hidari Shōtarō): Renn Kiriyama (桐山 漣, Kiriyama Ren)
  • Philip (フィリップ, Firippu): Masaki Suda (菅田 将暉, Suda Masaki)
  • Akiko Narumi (鳴海 亜樹子, Narumi Akiko), Melissa (メリッサ, Merissa): Hikaru Yamamoto (山本 ひかる, Yamamoto Hikaru)[5]
  • Ryu Terui (照井 竜, Terui Ryū): Minehiro Kinomoto (木ノ本 嶺浩, Kinomoto Minehiro)
  • Mikio Jinno (刃野 幹夫, Jinno Mikio): Takeshi Nadagi (なだぎ 武, Nadagi Takeshi)
  • Shun Makura (真倉 俊, Makura Shun): Shingo Nakagawa (中川 真吾, Nakagawa Shingo)
  • Watcherman (ウォッチャマン, Wotchaman): Nasubi (なすび)
  • Santa (サンタちゃん, Santa-chan): Zennosuke Fukkin (腹筋 善之介, Fukkin Zennosuke)
  • Queen (クイーン, Kuīn): Tomomi Itano (板野 友美, Itano Tomomi, AKB48)
  • Elizabeth (エリザベス, Erizabesu): Tomomi Kasai (河西 智美, Kasai Tomomi, AKB48)
  • Sokichi Narumi (鳴海 荘吉, Narumi Sōkichi): Koji Kikkawa (吉川 晃司, Kikkawa Kōji)
  • Shroud (シュラウド, Shuraudo, Voice): Naoko Kouda (幸田 直子, Kōda Naoko)
  • Matsu (Seiichiro Matsui) (マツ(松井 誠一郎), Matsu (Matsui Seiichirō)): Tarō Yamamoto (山本 太郎, Yamamoto Tarō)[5]
  • Sam (Isamu Bito) (サム(尾藤 勇), Samu (Bitō Isamu)): Kazuyoshi Ozawa (小沢 和義, Ozawa Kazuyoshi)
  • Stone (ストーン, Sutōn): Shiro Tsubuyaki (つぶやき シロー, Tsubuyaki Shirō)[6][7]
  • Eren Komori (小森 絵蓮, Komori Eren): Reon Kadena (かでな れおん, Kadena Reon)[5]
  • Kozo Yaguchi (矢口 孝三, Yaguchi Kōzō): Kenta Satoi (佐戸井 けん太, Satoi Kenta)
  • Yaguchi's wife: Wakana Nakano (中野 若菜, Nakano Wakana)
  • Young Akiko: Saho Ueda (上田 紗帆, Ueda Saho)
  • Young Shotaro: Issei Kakazu (嘉数 一星, Kakazu Issei)
  • Young Marina Tsumura (津村 真里奈, Tsumura Marina): Emiri Yagi (八木 瑛美莉, Yagi Emiri)
  • Gaia Memory Voice: Fumihiko Tachiki (立木 文彦, Tachiki Fumihiko)
OOO cast
  • Eiji Hino (火野 映司, Hino Eiji): Shu Watanabe (渡部 秀, Watanabe Shū)
  • Ankh (アンク, Anku): Ryosuke Miura (三浦 涼介, Miura Ryōsuke)
  • Hina Izumi (泉 比奈, Izumi Hina): Riho Takada (高田 里穂, Takada Riho)
  • Shintaro Goto (後藤 慎太郎, Gotō Shintarō): Asaya Kimijima (君嶋 麻耶, Kimijima Asaya)
  • Erika Satonaka (里中 エリカ, Satonaka Erika): Mayuko Arisue (有末 麻祐子, Arisue Mayuko)
  • Kiyoto Maki (真木 清人, Maki Kiyoto): Yuu Kamio (神尾 佑, Kamio Yū)
  • Chiyoko Shiraishi (白石 千世子, Shiraishi Chiyoko): Marie Kai (甲斐 まり恵, Kai Marie)
  • Kousei Kougami (鴻上 光生, Kōgami Kōsei): Takashi Ukaji (宇梶 剛士, Ukaji Takashi)
  • Nobunaga (ノブナガ): Kengo Ohkuchi (大口 兼悟, Ōkuchi Kengo)[5]
  • Yoshino Akechi (明智 よしの, Akechi Yoshino): Sayako (彩也子)[5]
  • President of Future Soft (フューチャーソフト, Fyūchā Sofuto): Masayuki Itō (伊藤 正之, Itō Masayuki)
  • Employee of Future Soft: Teruaki Ogawa (小川 輝晃, Ogawa Teruaki)
  • Gen-san (源さん): Kōji Ise (伊勢 浩二, Ise Kōji)
  • Naomi (直美): Yuka Motohashi (本橋 由香, Motohashi Yuka)
  • Commercial director: Satoshi Morota (諸田 敏, Morota Satoshi)
  • Kazari (カザリ, Voice): Taito Hashimoto (橋本 汰斗, Hashimoto Taito)
  • Uva (ウヴァ, Voice): Yūsuke Yamada (山田 悠介, Yamada Yūsuke)
  • Gamel (ガメル, Gameru, Voice): Hiroyuki Matsumoto (松本 博之, Matsumoto Hiroyuki)
  • Mezool (メズール, Mezūru, Voice): Yukana (ゆかな)
  • Male Pteranodon Yummy (プテラノドンヤミー, Puteranodon Yamī, Voice): Yoshimitsu Shimoyama (下山 吉光, Shimoyama Yoshimitsu)
  • Female Pteranodon Yummy (Voice): Ami Michizoe (道添 愛美, Michizoe Ami)
  • Armored Warrior Inhumanoid (鎧武者怪人, Yoroimusha Kaijin, Voice): Keikō Sakai (酒井 敬幸, Sakai Keikō)
  • "Kyouryu Greeed" (恐竜グリード, Kyōryū Gurīdo, Voice):[lower-alpha 1] Kenji Hamada (浜田 賢二, Hamada Kenji)
  • O-Scanner Voice: Akira Kushida (串田 アキラ, Kushida Akira)
  • Birth Driver Voice: Jōji Nakata (中田 譲治, Nakata Jōji)
Movie War cast
  • Kamen Rider Core (仮面ライダーコア, Kamen Raidā Koa, Voice): Fumihiko Tachiki[8]

Theme song

  • "HEART∞BREAKER"[9]
    • Lyrics: Maki Ohguro
    • Composition: Koji Kikkawa
    • Arrangement: Hiroaki Sugawara
    • Artist: DaiKichi (DaiKichi~大吉~)
    Daikichi is a musical unit composed of Koji Kikkawa and Maki Ohguro using the first kanji of their surnames. This name is literally translated as "Great Luck". The unit was originally named "Koji Kikkawa × Maki Ohguro" (吉川晃司×大黒摩季, Kikkawa Kōji × Ōguro Maki).[10] The single was released on December 15, 2010.

The film's soundtrack was released on December 15, 2010.[11] The movie's music includes "Got to Keep it Real", "Nobody's Perfect", and a track titled "Finally", sung by series' actress Hikaru Yamamoto as her character Melissa. "Finally" was written and arranged by Shoko Fujibayashi, and composed by Shuhei Naruse, used during the Kamen Rider Skull: Message for Double portion of the film where the character of Melissa performs at a concert. Other versions of "Finally" can be heard during Kamen Rider OOO: Nobunaga's Desire.

Notes

  1. Also known as "Giru" (ギル).

References

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