Ninja Captor
Ninja Captor is a Japanese tokusatsu TV series aired from April 7, 1976 to January 26, 1977 on TV Tokyo 12 Channel, produced by Toei Company, Ltd. This Sentai-esque series aired during the run of Shotaro Ishinomori's original Super Sentai series, Himitsu Sentai Gorenger and was notably first superhero team show produced by Toei under the Saburo Yatsude/Hatte pseudonym. Daisuke Izumo graduates from the Wind-Demon Stealth-Army, a secret army aiming for the conquest of Japan. He instead escapes, and becomes the leader of the "Captor," a ninja team supervised by Mujin Tendou. The Captor team's mission is to battle the ninja sent out by the Wind-Demon General, Retsufuu Fuuma. This show used to be considered by some to be a part of the Super Sentai franchise* , but was later excluded. In 2013, it got a Shout-Out in the fourth episode of Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger: Season 2.
Seasons
Cast
Daisuke BanDaisuke Izumo · 43 ep.
Hiroyuki SatoKeita Izumi · 43 ep.
Sanpei GodaiNoboru Ōyama · 43 ep.AAi NogawaMiki Tendō · 43 ep.
Kenji UshioSaburōbei Fukuro · 43 ep.
Takamaru SasakiHakūn Togakushi · 43 ep.NNobuyuki NakanoJūrō Ōmori · 43 ep.MMasahiro KamiyaMagoyatsu Imura · 43 ep.
Shinzō HottaRetsufū Fūma/Nindō Kurayami · 43 ep.SSanji Kojima · 43 ep.
Iwao Dan · 43 ep.
Gorō Naya · 43 ep.Crew
Atsuo Okunaka (Director), Hideo Tanaka (Director), Tsunemi Nakamura (Director), Daisuke Yamazaki (Director)
Masaru Igami (Teleplay), Shūkei Nagasaka (Teleplay), Mikio Matsushita (Teleplay), Saburo Yatsude (Original Story), Masaru Igami (Writer), Chigusa Shioda (Writer), Shūkei Nagasaka (Writer), Mikio Matsushita (Writer)
Tōru Hirayama (Producer)
Yoshiharu Aihara (Director of Photography)
Data: TMDB (this product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB), Wikidata.