is the film adaptation of the 2009 Super Sentai

Super Sentai

The is the name given to the long-running Japanese superhero team genre of shows produced by Toei Co., Ltd., Toei Agency and Bandai, and aired by TV Asahi...

 Series Samurai Sentai Shinkenger

Samurai Sentai Shinkenger

is the title of Toei Company's thirty-third entry in its long-running Super Sentai Series of Japanese tokusatsu television series. It premiered on February 15, 2009, the week following the finale of Engine Sentai Go-onger, and ended on February 7, 2010...

. The film was released in Japanese theaters on August 8, 2009, as a double-bill with the Kamen Rider Decade

Kamen Rider Decade

is the title of the first of the 2009 editions of the long-running Kamen Rider Series of tokusatsu dramas. Decade, as its title suggests, is the tenth of the Heisei Rider Series, having begun with Kamen Rider Kuuga in 2000...

film Kamen Rider Decade: All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker

Kamen Rider Decade: All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker

is the film adaptation of the 2009 Kamen Rider Series Kamen Rider Decade. The film was released in Japanese theaters on August 8, 2009, alongside the Samurai Sentai Shinkenger film, Samurai Sentai Shinkenger The Movie: The Fateful War. The catchphrases for the movie are and...

. This is the first Japanese movie to be filmed in 3-D

3-D film

A 3-D film or S3D film is a motion picture that enhances the illusion of depth perception...

. Some of its footage was used in the Power Rangers Samurai

Power Rangers Samurai

Power Rangers Samurai is the nineteenth season of the American children's television series Power Rangers. With Saban Brands buying back the franchise, the show is produced by SCG Power Rangers and began airing on Nickelodeon and Nicktoons on February 7, 2011...

 team up episode "Clash of the Red Rangers - The Movie".

Plot

Taking place in between Shinkenger Acts 22 and 23, the Shinkengers battle the newly revived Kusare Gedoushu Aburame Manpuku and his army for three days. The wounded and tired Shinkengers nearly lose, had the Kusare Gedoushu not needed to regain energy by soaking in the Sanzu River. As their wounds are treated, Jii reveals they he has found the Secret Disk used by the first Shinken Red to seal Manpuku at the Genryu Temple, which lies in the middle of Kusare Gedoushu territory. Using Ryunosuke and Kotoha's plan to sneak in disguised as members of the Nanashi Company, Takeru gets the Founding Secret Disk only to see that it is actually a cryptic message left by the first Shinken Red Shiba Retsudō of obtaining power when facing it. Unable to deipher the riddle, the Shinkengers lose hope until they overhear children praying and decide to face the Kusare Gedoushu without the Disk. The next day, the Shinkengers confront the Kusare Gedoushu once more. The vassals hold off the Kusare Nanashi Company members as Shinken Red battles Manpuku. Elsewhere, not wanting his quarry to die by another's hand, Juzo attempts to join the fray as Genta intervenes and becomes Shinken Gold to fight Juzo. Losing to Manpuku, Shinken Red realizes the meaning behind Retsudō's message as he uses the Secret Disk to break the seal Retsudō placed on Manpuku's body to restore the Disk's full power. This turns it into the Kyoryu Disk and turns Shinken Red into Hyper Shinken Red, and his Shinkenmaru into the Kyoryumaru. With these newfound powers, Hyper Shinken Red single-handedly defeats the Kusare Nanashi before slaying Manpuku. Reviving into giant size, Manpuku opens up into his true form which overpowers Tenku-Shinkenoh until the Kyoryumaru transforms into the Kyoryu Origami and bites off the Kusare Gedoshu's snake head before combining with Shinkenoh to form Kyoryu-Shinkenoh to destroy Manpuku once and for all.

Cast

• Takeru Shiba:
• Ryunosuke Ikenami:
• Mako Shiraishi:
• Chiaki Tani:
• Kotoha Hanaori:
• Genta Umemori:
• Juzo Fuwa:
• Hikoma Kusakabe:
• Shiba Retsudō:
• Manpuku Aburame:
• Doukoku Chimatsuri:
• Dayu Usukawa:
• Shitari of the Bones:
• Narrator:

Suit actors

• Shinken Red, Shinkenoh:
• Shinken Blue:
• Shinken Pink:
• Shinken Green:
• Shinken Yellow:
• Shinken Gold:
• Doukoku Chimatsuri, Daikaioh:
• Dayu Usukawa:
• Shitari of the Bones:
• Juzo Fuwa, Shinken Red (sub):
• Manpuku Aburame:

Cast notes

Masashi Goda

Masashi Goda

is a Japanese actor from Kanagawa Prefecture. He is best known for his portrayal of Yuuji Mita/OHBlue in Chōriki Sentai Ohranger. In 2009, he joined the cast of Samurai Sentai Shinkenger in the recurring role of Shiba Retsudō, the first Shinken Red....

, previously Yūji Mita/OhBlue in Chouriki Sentai Ohranger

Chouriki Sentai Ohranger

is a Japanese tokusatsu television series and the nineteenth installment in the long-running Super Sentai franchise of superhero programs. Its footage was used in the American series Power Rangers Zeo .-Plot:Six hundred million years ago, Pangaea created a robot named Bacchushund, who turned on his...

, was brought onto the film to portray , the . Veteran jidaigeki

Jidaigeki

is a genre of film, television, and theatre in Japan. The name means "period drama" and is usually the Edo period of Japanese history, from 1603 to 1868. Some, however, are set much earlier—Portrait of Hell, for example, is set during the late Heian period—and the early Meiji era is also a popular...

 actor Shinya Owada was brought onto the project to portray the evil leader of the , .

Songs

Ending theme

• • Lyrics: Shoko Fujibayashi
  • Composition: Hideaki Takatori
  • Arrangement: Project.R (Hiroaki Kagoshima)
  • Artist: Shinkengers (Tori Matsuzaka, Hiroki Aiba, Rin Takanashi, Shogo Suzuki, Suzuka Morita, Keisuke Sohma) & Hideaki Takatori

External links

• DCD-Shin.jp - Official movie website hub
• Samurai Sentai Shinkenger The Movie: The Fateful War - Official movie website