Ninja Sentai Kakuranger (1994) 忍者戦隊カクレンジャー
Director: Yoshiaki Kobayashi / Taro Sakamoto / Takeshi Ogasawara / Katsuya Watanabe / Shohei Tojo / Hiroshi Butsuda
Screenwriter: Noboru Sugimura / Naruhisa Arakawa / Susumu Takaku / Hirohisa Soda / Kunio Fujii
Starring: Teruaki Ogawa / Hitomi Hirose / Hiroshi Tsuchida / Suguru Kawai / Takeshi Kosugi / Kazuki Yao / Kenichi Endo / Takayuki Godai / Hidekatsu Shibata
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Mystery / Fantasy / Adventure
Country/Region of Production: Japan
Language: Japanese
Date: February 18, 1994
Number of Seasons: 18
Number of episodes: 53
Single episode length: 25 minutes
IMDb: tt0108880
Adaptation: Inspiration
Summary:
Four hundred years ago, the ninja and the Youkai had a great war. The legendary Sarutobi Sasuke and four other ninjas sealed the Youkai Commander Nurarihyon and all his Youkai's energies away in a cave protected by the "Seal Door". In the present, one of the few remaining Youkai, Kappa, tricks Sarutobi Sasuke and Kirigakure Saizo's descendants, Saizou and Sasuke, into releasing the Youkai by opening the Seal Door. Now these two, joined by three other descendants of great ninjas, become the Kakurangers to fight the reinvigorated Youkai with the aid of the Three God Generals. However, the Kakurangers have their work cut out for them as the Youkai are slowly being united under one banner.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja_Sentai_Kakuranger
Juken Sentai Gekiranger (2007) 獣拳戦隊ゲキレンジャー
Director: Shojiro Nakazawa / Katsuya Watanabe / Noboru Takemoto / Satoshi Morota / Masato Tsujino / Hiroyuki Kato
Screenwriter: Michiko Yokote / Naruhisa Arakawa / Genki Yoshimura / Shou Aikawa / Kazuki Nakashima / Yuji Kobayashi
Starring: Yuki Suzuki / Mina Fukui / Manpei Takagi / Riki Miura / Sotaro / Kazue Ito / Sakina Kuwae / Hirofumi Araki / Yuka Hirata
Genre: Action
Country/Region of Production: Japan
Language: Japanese
Date: February 18, 2007
Number of Seasons: 31
Number of episodes: 49
Also known as: Beast-Fist Squadron Gekiranger
IMDb: tt1151113
Adaptation: Inspiration
Summary:Four thousand years ago in ancient China, a form of Chinese styledkenpō martial art called Jūken (獣拳; Beast-Fist) was created by a man named Bruce Ee, who came to Japan and built the hidden village Jūgenkyō (獣源郷; Beast Origin Village). Jūken is a martial art in which one mimics the abilities of animals as well as trying to attain spiritual peace. However, dissent grew among the creator's ten students; three of them believed that they should use the suffering and hatred harnessed within humans to increase their power, using their power to assume the monstrous Three Kenma. After Bruce Ee was murdered, the Kenma gathered followers to practice an evil form of the Jūken style known as Rin Jūken Akugata. The other seven students believed that true strength should come from within and engaged their former friends in a great war, ending the fight with a forbidden technique to seal the Kenma powers at the cost of losing their human forms in the process, becoming the Seven Kensei. Followers of the Kensei created the Geki Jūken Beast Arts school: the Jūken of justice whose sport discipline enhances the human body with the self-produced positive Q called "Geki." It is taught by Grand Master Sha Fu, one of the Seven Kensei, using a sports goods company named SCRTC (スクラッチ, Sukuratchi) as a front. Presently, a fallen student from the Geki Jūken school named Rio turned to the Rin Jūken style. He rebuilds the Rinjū Hall and brings the long-dead Rin Jūken users back to life as kyonshi to collect Rinki, Geki's polar opposite Qi, to resurrect the Three Kenma so that through them, he can become stronger. To fight the new Rinjū Hall, Sha Fu trained two youths: Ran Uzaki and Retsu Fukami. Along with Jan Kandou, a feral boy raised by tigers in the woods near Jūgenkyō, the Gekiranger team is formed and later joined by two other Geki Jūken users, Gou Fukami, Retsu's brother and master of the Geki Jū Wolf-Ken style, and Ken Hisatsu, a genius master of the Geki Jū Rhinoceros- style, to save the world from the Akugata's ambitions. However, an even greater evil uses the two sides for its plan.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juken_Sentai_Gekiranger
Avataro Sentai Donbrothers (2022) 暴太郎戦隊ドンブラザーズ
Director: Ryuta Tasaki
Screenwriter: Toshiki Inoue
Starring: Kohei Higuchi / Yurai Beppu / Kohaku Shida / Tarou Hiiragi / Hirofumi Suzuki / Kiita Komagine / Yuya Tominaga / Shinnosuke Takahashi / Amisa Miyazaki / Satoshi Wada / Raizo Ishikawa
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Action
Country/Region of Production: Japan
Language: Japanese
Date: March 6, 2022
Number of Seasons: 46
Number of episodes: 50
Single episode length: 24 minutes
IMDb: tt15776622
Adaptation: Inspiration
Summary:A man called Jin Momoi finds a baby inside a peach-shaped capsule whom he names Taro and raises. 21 years later, mysterious monsters called the Hitotsuki begin appearing when humans overcome with their inner desires are taken over by the spirits infused with powers related to the Super Sentai of the past. Taro, and four other individuals selected by Jin; Shinichi Saruhara, a smart but eccentric young man, Haruka Kitou, a high schooler manga artist, Tsubasa Inuzuka, a wanted fugitive, and Tsuyoshi Kijino, an ordinary salaryman; begin fighting the Hitotsuki and saving their hosts as the Donbrothers. They are later joined by Jiro Momotani, who was also found in a capsule as a baby and raised in a rural area, whose dream is to become a hero.Also standing in their way are the Nouto, elusive and ruthless individuals from a higher plane of existence who stop the Hitotsuki by sealing their hosts in another dimension, unlike the Donbrothers, who use their powers to rescue them, Don Murasame, a mysterious warrior sent to fight them, and the Juto, strange and powerful creatures who are a threat to both humans and the Nouto. The Donbrothers also count on the help of Kaito Goshikida, the owner of the coffee shop Donbura who transforms into Zenkaizer Black, and Jin, who is trapped in a virtual prison and occasionally offers them advice.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avataro_Sentai_Donbrothers
