Kamen Rider ZO

1993 50m movie Film

Kamen Rider ZO

仮面ライダーZO

Synopsis

仮面ライダーZO

Masaru Aso was the lab assistant of geneticist Doctor Mochizuki, used as one of his experiments related the creation of the Neo Organism, enabling him to transform into a grasshopper-like being called Kamen Rider ZO. He fled into the mountainside and went into a coma before he was awakened by a telepathic call two years later with an unconscious urge to protect Hiroshi Mochizuki, the son of Doctor Mochizuki.

Titles With Overlapping Themes

Films and series that share thematic tags with Kamen Rider ZO. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.

Other Titles From Ishimori Productions

Action + Adventure in Japan

1030 Japan titles in our catalog blend the Action and Adventure genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Kamen Rider ZO itself).

The 1992–1994 Japan Window

Kamen Rider ZO holds position #27 of 112 Japan films in the 1992–1994 window, below highlighted by audience rating.

The 1990s Japan Landscape

Catalog density by release year across the 1990s in Japan, 447 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Kamen Rider ZO premiered alongside 34 others.

Position in Catalog

Released alongside 34 other Japan films in 1993.

The 920th Japan title from Japan we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1899).

Our Japan catalog contains 4,579 titles in total (2,908 films).

Audience Engagement

18

Reviews

32nd

Review-volume percentile

37th

Popularity percentile

18 audience reviews — more than 32% of Japan films in our index.

Popularity sits at the 37th percentile among Japan films.

Thematic Fingerprint

Tags on Kamen Rider ZO, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.

Distinctive themes · rare across catalog

child protection · 1

Recurring themes · common across catalog

tokusatsu · 21
kamen rider · 21

Mainstream tags · widely used across catalog

monster · 91
superhero · 80
super power · 61

Reception Benchmarks

7.5

TMDB Rating

18

Audience Reviews

Highly Rated

Critical Tier

Ranked #1,294 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (72nd percentile by TMDB audience score).

Rating is +0.6 points above the Japan average of 6.9/10.

Among Japan Action productions specifically: #567 of 1,714 (top 33%).

Production Details

Primary Country	Japan
Original Language	Japanese
Production Companies	Ishimori Productions, Toei Company, Ishinomori Productions
Runtime	50m
Release Date	April 17, 1993
IMDb	tt0099917