Kamen Rider Amazon

Kamen Rider Amazon (仮面ライダーアマゾン) is the fourth entry of the Kamen Rider Series. The series aired in Japan from late 1974 to early 1975 on the NET TV.

It was the shortest Kamen Rider series ever, lasting only 24 episodes due to the show's heavy amounts of graphic violence, and starred Toru Okazaki as the title character.

Plot
A plane crashes in the Amazon rainforest, leaving young Amazon (Daisuke Yamamoto) stranded without his parents. Soon adopted by an Incan tribe, Amazon becomes a wild child, living off the land. However, Amazon's idyllic existence is cut short when Gorgos, the Ten Faced Demon, massacres his village, slaughtering everyone except himself in search for the powerful "GiGi Armlet", which gives the bearer fantastic power.

Elder Bago, last of the Incas, gives the GiGi Armlet to Amazon for safekeeping while using his knowledge of Incan science and magic to perform a mystical "operation" on Daisuke, transforming him into the powerful "Kamen Rider Amazon" before he died. Arriving at Japan, Amazon battles Geddon without full knowledge of their reason of pursuing him. Befriending the nephew and niece of Professor Kousaka, Amazon learns the nature of the GiGi Armlet as he defeats Geddon and then the Garanda Empire.

Allies

 * Tobei Tachibana
 * Masahiko Okamura
 * Ritsuko Okamura
 * Mogura Beastman
 * Elder Bago
 * Yanamura
 * Professor Kosaka

Geddon

 * Ten-Faced Demon Gorgos
 * Red Followers

Garanda Empire

 * Ruler (Great Emperor Zero)
 * "Great Emperor Zero"
 * Black Followers

Cast

 * Amazon (Daisuke Yamamoto) (アマゾン (山本 大介)): Toru Okazaki (岡崎 徹)
 * Tobei Tachibana (立花 藤兵衛): Akiji Kobayashi (小林 昭二)
 * Masahiko Okamura (岡村 まさひこ): Yoji Matsuda (松田 洋治)
 * Ritsuko Okamura (岡村 りつ子): Mariko Matsuoka (松岡 まりこ)
 * Mogura Beastman (モグラ獣人): Ryuji Saikachi (槐 柳二)
 * Elder Bago (長老バゴー): Ushio Akashi (明石 潮)
 * Ten-Faced Demon Gorgos (十面鬼ゴルゴス): Ritsuo Sawa (沢 りつお)
 * "Great Emperor Zero" (ゼロ大帝): Hirohisa Nakata (中田 博久)
 * The Ruler of Garanda Empire (ガランダー帝国支配者): Osamu Saka (阪 脩)
 * Narrator (ナレーター): Goro Naya (納谷 悟朗)

Suit actors

 * Kamen Rider Amazon - Kazuo Niibori
 * Kamen Rider Amazon, Gorgos' rock face, Beastmen - Fumiya Nakamura
 * Kamen Rider Amazon, Gorgos' rock face, Beastman - Tetsuya Nakayashiki
 * Kamen Rider Amazon - Yutaka Nakamura
 * Kamen Rider Amazon (trampoline) - Takumi Sato
 * Kamen Rider Amazon (trampoline) - Yasuo Yukawa
 * Beastmen, Gorgos' rock face - Hiroo Kawarazaki
 * Beastmen, Gorgos' rock face - Masaru Okada
 * Mole Beastman - Shoji Ozawa
 * Gorgos rock face - Shigeru Yamada, Shoji Ozawa
 * Yasuo Yukawa, Naoko Maeda, Masato Amano, Ohno Kentomo-kai members
 * Woman Followers - Keiko Mita, Yasue Toyama, Kyoko Yoshida, Chieko Takeshita, Michiko Masuda, Toshiko Watanabe, Kiyota Maki, Akiyo Hirat, Kazue Takahashi, Miyako Takagi, Mayumi Shishido

Songs

 * Opening theme
 * "Amazon Rider Koko ni Ari" (アマゾンライダーここにあり)
 * Lyrics: Shotaro Ishinomori
 * Composition: Shunsuke Kikuchi
 * Artist: Masato Shimon


 * Ending theme
 * "Amazon Da-Da-Da!!" (アマゾンダダダ!!)
 * Lyrics: Saburo Yatsude
 * Composition: Shunsuke Kikuchi
 * Artist: Masato Shimon with the Columbia Yurikago-kai
 * Episodes: 1-14 (1st Verse); 15-24 (2nd Verse)

S.I.C. Hero Saga
The S.I.C. Hero Saga story for Amazon as published in the May through July 2004 issues of Monthly Hobby Japan magazine is titled Kamen Rider Amazon: Pre-Stage (仮面ライダーアマゾン-プレ・ステージ-). It serves as a prologue to the Amazon series, and features the original characters Pre-Amazon (プレ・アマゾン), the Ten-Faced Demon (Complete) (十面鬼（完全体）), Kitty (キティ), and the Jungler (Bago Production) (ジャングラー（バゴー製作）).


 * Chapter titles
 * 1) Human-Faced Stone (人面岩)
 * 2) Meteorite (隕石)
 * 3) Armlet (腕輪)