The Story of Shotaro Ishinomori, The Man Who Created Heroes

Aug 25, 2018

1h 42m

★ 0.0

Overview

This story follows the semi-autobiographical account of manga artist Shotaro Ishinomori, author of the original Kamen Rider, Cyborg 009, and Super Sentai.

Genres

TV Movie

Drama

Production Companies

Nippon Television Network Corporation

K-Factory

AX-ON

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Cast

Shotaro Ishinomori

Kento Nakajima

Yoshie Onodera

Fumino Kimura

Fujio Akatsuka

Kento Hayashi

Kotaro Onodera

Tetta Sugimoto

Kashiku Onodera

Maki Mizuno

Toshiko Onodera

Rina Terakawa

Hiroo Terada

Takuro Ohno

Hiroshi Fujimoto / "Fujiko F. Fujio"

Keisuke Nakata

Moto Abiko / "Fujiko Fujio A."

Takara Sakumoto

Jiro Tsunoda

Naruki Matsukawa

Shinichi Suzuki

Shuto Miyazaki

Yamahira

Soko Wada

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