Kamen Rider x Kamen Rider OOO & W feat. Skull: Movie Taisen Core

Kamen Rider x Kamen Rider OOO & W feat. Skull: Movie Taisen Core 仮面ライダー×仮面ライダーオーズ＆ダブル ｆｅａｔ．スカル ＭＯＶＩＥ大戦ＣＯＲＥ
Director	Tasaki Ryuuta 田﨑竜太
Writer	Sanjou Riku (W Part, Movie Taisen Core Part) Inoue Toshiki (OOO Part)
Starring	Watanabe Shu Kiriyama Renn Suda Masaki Kikkawa Koji
Studio	Toei Company
Release date(s)	December 18, 2010 (2010-12-18) May 21, 2011 (2011-05-21) (Retail) September 21, 2011 (2011-09-21) (DC)
Running time	90 minutes 107 minutes (DC)

Kamen Rider x Kamen Rider: Movie Taisen series
< Movie Taisen 2010	OOO & W feat. Skull Movie Taisen Core	Movie Taisen Mega Max >
< Kamen Rider OOO 14		Kamen Rider OOO 15 >

The second movie in the Kamen Rider x Kamen Rider: Movie Taisen series. This one features Kamen Rider OOO and Kamen Rider W. Released December 18, 2010. Originally announced in a teaser at the end of the film Kamen Rider W Forever: A to Z/The Gaia Memories of Fate.

Summary

It's the day of Terui Ryuu and Narumi Akiko's wedding but a Pteranodon Yummy with the Memory Memory interrupts the day. It uses the power on Akiko who relives the memories of her father, Narumi Soukichi, of how he became Kamen Rider Skull.

Kougami digs up the corpse of Oda Nobunaga and creates a new body for him. Eiji encounters Nobunaga while trying to stop a monster killing people.

OOO and W team up to deal with the creation of Kamen Rider Core.

Cast

Narumi Soukichi 鳴海荘吉/ Kamen Rider Skull - Kikkawa Koji 吉川 晃司

Akiko's father and the first Kamen Rider in the world of W. While protecting Fuuto's song princess, Melissa, he became involved in the world of Dopants. Soukichi became Kamen Rider Skull with the help of Shroud, who was his childhood friend and also provided all of his tech.

Seiichiro Matsui 松井 誠一郎 / Spider Dopant - Yamamoto Taro 山本 太郎

Soukichi's partner who was in love with Melissa. Using the Spider Memory, he became the Spider Dopant. As the Spider Dopant, he is able to create webs and scale walls easily. Also he can create spiders that act as bombs. These spiders can attached to people and be transferred when they touched a person they loved. When the transfer happens, the victim is cocooned in webs before exploding.

Melissa メリッサ - Yamamoto Hikaru 山本 ひかる

Fuuto's song princess and shadow chief of the Narumi Detective Agency.

Komori Eren 小森絵蓮 / Bat Dopant - Kadena Reon かでな れおん

Possibly the first GaiaMemory dealer. She uses the Bat Memory to become the Bat Dopant. Besides being able to fly, she can use supersonic waves to destroy objects or even control machines. Her last name almost spells Koumori, Japanese for "bat".

Yaguchi Kozo 矢口孝三 - Satoi Kenta 佐戸井 けん太

President of the talent agency that Melissa is with. He's been supplying female talent to Komori for GaiaMemory tests.

Nobunaga ノブナガ - Ohkuchi Kengo 大口兼悟

Revived by Kougami by using Cell Medals to create a new body. Called Nobu by Eiji and Hina. While able to learn and succeed in the world rather quickly, he held a grudge over the people responsible for his death centuries ago. He assumes a Greeed-like form in samurai armor to kill the descendants.

His Greeed-like form is voiced by Sakai Keikou 酒井 敬幸

Akechi Yoshino 明智 よしの - Sayako 彩也子

A sempai of Hina's who specializes in ballet. She peaks the interest of Nobunaga due to her dancing and also being the descendent of Akechi Mitsuhide, whose betrayal is one of the causes of Nobunaga's death.

Kamen Rider Core 仮面ライダーコア - Tachiki Fumihiko 立木文彦

Created from a combination of the Black Core Medals and Memory Memory. It's a giant covered by flames and able to transform his legs into a motorcycle. It can emit a green laser that can destroy with ease.

Minor Cast

Narumi Akiko (young) - Ueda Saho 上田 紗帆

Hidari Shoutarou (young) - Kakazu Issei 嘉数 一星

Tsumura Marina (young) - Yagi Emiri 八木 瑛美莉

Yaguchi's Wife - Nakano Wakana 中野若菜

The President of Future Soft - Itō Masayuki 伊藤 正之

Employee of Future Soft - Ogawa Teruaki 小川 輝晃

Gen-san 源さん - Ise Kōji 伊勢 浩二

Naomi 直美 - Motohashi Yuka 本橋 由香

Commercial Director - Morota Satoshi 諸田 敏

Gill - Voiced by Hamada Kenji 浜田 賢二

Debuts

Kamen Rider Birth

Tajador Combo

Takagoriba

Yummy

Pteranodon - voiced by Shimoyama Yoshimitsu (male) and Michizoe Ami (female)

Two Pteranodon Yummies were in the movie. The first one is male and somehow got its hands on the Memory Memory before encountering Nobunaga as Kamen Rider Birth. Its origin is unknown but it was defeated by Kamen Rider Accel and Kamen Rider Birth as Gotou. The second one was a female and created from Yoshino's ballet shoe when her dream of dancing was broken due to a piece of wall smashing her ankle. That one was defeated by the Gatakiriba Combo. These Yummies, or at least others of the same type, reappear in Kamen Rider OOO when OOO's PuToTyra form debuts and are destroyed by him.

Combos/Subforms

Tatoba

Takagoriba

Takatoratah

Gatakiriba

Sagouzo

Latoratah

Tajador

Music

Insert Songs

• Finally

Singer: Yamamoto Hikaru

Lyrics: Fujibayashi Shoko

Music: Naruse Shuuhei

• Nobody's Perfect

Singer: Kikkawa Koji

Lyrics: Matsui Gorō

Music: Kikkawa Koji

• Got to keep it real

Singer: Watanabe Shu

Lyrics: Fujibayashi Shoko

Music: Naruse Shuuhei

End theme

• HEART∞BREAKER

Singers: DaiKichi

Lyrics: Ohguro Maki

Music: Kikkawa Koji

Canon

The movie is canon for W but for OOO, it's considered to be not canon.

Reasons that it's not canon for OOO:

• The Medal Count shown at the end of the OOO part of the movie doesn't match at any point in the series especially during the beginning of the series.
• Eiji was using the Medal Holder. The Medal Holder hasn't appeared in the series at this point.
• Ankh didn't really trust Eiji with all the Core Medals in the TV series. So Eiji using a bunch of Medals at his disposal without Ankh is quite odd at this point in the series or rather it was a constant issue.
  • However in the DC Ankh gives Eiji the Medal Holder. So this point might not really count.
• The Pteranodon Yummies produced a bunch of Cell Medals when they died. This is an oddity because when they appear in the TV series, killing them only nets one Cell Medal. Also their appearance in Core wasn't mention in the TV series when Eiji and the others saw the Pteranodon Yummy in the TV series.
• The Black Core Medals weren't mention once in the TV series even though the Sasori has appeared on Cell Medals used by Birth.
• Gotou being Kamen Rider Birth in the Movie War Core part wasn't mentioned at all in the TV series. He had to go through training in order to use the Birth Gun without the armor in the series. He didn't become Birth until very late in the series.
  • And no one knows about Birth until Date shows up in it.
• Ankh getting a hold of the Kujaku and Condor Medals is quite different in the TV series. Condor hasn't even been mentioned in the TV series when the movie was released.
• The major reason why Movie Core isn't canon for OOO is the existence of Gill. He's supposed to be the Dinosaur Greeed. In the TV series, the Purple Core Medals that would be used for the Dinosaur Greeed were sealed and kept by Maki until he removed one of them to make them active. It's rather hard to have the existence of Gill and the events that led to the Purple Medals inhabiting Eiji and Maki to coexist in the same universe.

Director's Cut

The director's cut version was released September 21st, 2011.

Notable Differences:

• The W and OOO parts are switched in order. In the original, W was first and then OOO.
• Showing Kougami preparing to do calligraphy extended.
• Before unearthing the Nobunaga Crest, an image of Nobunaga back in the day is shown.
• Extended shot of Eiji delievering papers
• Tatoba sound effect when Eiji goes after Nobunaga Greeed on the RideVendor is added
• Extended shot of Eiji trying to get a response from the collasped Nobunaga
• Extended shot of Eiji making rice for Nobunaga
• During the underwear scene, Eiji wonders if he should take Nobunaga to the police since he has amnesia
• New scene of Eiji and Nobu helping out at a liquor store
• Scene where Nobunaga declared that he's the new president is extended at the end
• During the celebration for Nobu becoming president, Ankh is there when they do a toast. Also this scene is extended greatly. It provides some background information on Yoshino Akechi being a descendant of one of the people that was involved with Nobunaga's death. Ankh tells Eiji about the murder he saw and warns Eiji about Nobu before he had to go somewhere.
• Extended beginning shot of Kougami and Nobu talking in the limo. Sataonka and Gotou are also in the limo. When Gotou sees the Birth Driver, he looks shocked. They show Nobu being dropped off before continuing an extended scene in the limo. Gotou asks Kougami why he gave the Birth Driver to Nobu which he responds that it's just an experiment and that Nobu isn't going to be around much longer since he's a puppet.
• In the original version, the battle between Birth and the Pteranodon Yummy was one entire sequence. In the DC, after the girl's leg is trapped under a car, it goes to Cous Coussier where Eiji asks Hina if he's boring. Then they watched the news of the attack occuring in real time before going back to the battle. After Nobu finished his thought, the scene goes back to Cous Coussier where Eiji and Hina see Nobu detransforming from Birth on TV.
• Extended shot of OOO in Takatoratah before cutting back to Hina and Yoshino
• New scene where Nobu is in a meeting is unable to recall what a cell phone is before going berserk
• Extended scene after falling down the stairs, Nobu sees his hand dissolving into Cell Medals
• Extended scene of the people who Eiji helped earlier with money dragging him to a party
• Director's Cut appears on the Count the Medals screen
• W's first line occurs before he jumps at the Pteranodon Yummy instead of after causing it to fall with HeatJoker.
• Extended scene at the end when Shoutarou and Philip learned about Akiko took away the Accel Memory and Driver
• In the next scene, Shoutarou gives a narration about why Akiko started to hate on Kamen Riders. Also when she says her friends, boyfriend, and dad are Riders, a picture of each Rider shown at each point. When Soukichi speaks, a image of her when she was a child was shown.
• In the first scene with the Narumi Detective Agency, when Akiko's father mentions ghosts, an image of the SkullGarry appears. When Melissa initially calls, the scene is slightly extended to mention that she's Fuuto's singing princess and the shadow chief of Narumi Detective Agency.
• After the title, a new scene where Soukichi and Matsui are heading to Melissa which Matsuri gives Soukichi a guide to be a bodyguard. He throws it back of the car.
• Shortly at arriving at the entrance of the music hall, Komori is there and gets bumped into by a random person. This person ends up on the ground by her before she goes inside.
• Extended scene at the end of Soukichi meeting Stone.
• Extended scene at the beginning of Soukichi finding President Yaguchi.
• Before going back to Skull's story, Shoutarou recaps the story of Begins Night.
• A new scene of Melissa singing while walking on the docks. She encounters Soukichi which he figured out the Spider Dopant's identity which she already knew. Melissa wants him to get the Spider Dopant to admit his sins. Soukichi meets Shroud on the docks which she tells him that the Spider Dopant can't be saved by a Memory Break.
• When images of the Spider Dopant's "ones" are being shown, there was one image that wasn't shown which was an "one" on a piece of paper.
• Extended fight scene between Soukichi and Matsui.
• Flashback of the spider killing President Yaguchi shown after Soukichi says "That spider..."
• Extended scene before the flashback of the Spider Dopant taking Melissa backstage. Some lines were rearranged during the scene as well and no flashback of Melissa jilting at Soukichi. New flashback scene of Matsuri taking Melissa back to the stage.
• The Bat Dopant says an additional line which Melissa will die as well before Soukichi becomes Skull.
• Extended shot of Melissa being in the Spider Dopant's web before Skull arrives.
• Flashback scene of Matsui and Soukichi occurs before Soukichi starts counting his sins.
• Like in the Count the Medal screen previously, the Memory screen for W has a black bar with the words Director's Cut in it.
• In the original version, the credits and ending theme began playing when Akiko starts walking down the aisle and there was a small video playing during the credit crawl. In the DC, the final scenes for W and OOO are in full screen and their respective end of the arc music is played.
• After the final OOO scene is over, the credits displayed the Taka, Tora, and Batta Medals first instead of the Cyclone, Joker, and Skull Memories. Also the Accel Memory is shown along with Taka, Kujaku, and Condor Medals.

Trivia

• This is the first appearance of the Medal Holder. Hina will give it to Ankh as a present later in the TV series.
• This is the first appearance of the Condor Medal. The Kujaku Medal was shown at the end of episode 14.
• This was the second time that CycloneJokerXtreme's Gold form was used. The first time was in the W Summer Movie.
• Ankh was detached from Shingo for quite some time when he was helping OOO and W with their fight against Kamen Rider Core. It would be amazing if Shingo managed to survive that long.
• In the music hall scene, young Shoutarou and Marina were there. It fits with them being friends as children. Also Jinno was just an uniformed cop at the time.
• Matsui shares quite a few similarities to Philip. He is rather smart and researches for clues by using bookshelves at the library.
• Melissa is played by Yamamoto Hikaru who plays Akiko in the series. Like Matsui and Philip, she shares some commonalities with Akiko like being the chief of the Narumi Detective Agency and hitting people with shoes. Even Akiko mentions how similar they are to each other.
• The Spider and Bat Dopants are homages to the first two kaijins in Kamen Rider.
• The Ending Theme HEART∞BREAKER is sung by Ohguro Maki and Kikkawa Koji. The name on the single is DaiKichi which is from the first kanji of their surnames. It means Great Luck. Also Ohguro Maki sings the OOO Opening while Kikkawa Koji is Narumi Soukichi and sings Nobody's Perfect as well.
• This is the only Movie Taisen movie that doesn't have a scene of the new Rider appearing soon after the credits. Movie Taisen 2010 has Accel and Mega Max has Meteor at the end. This is the first appearance of Birth. Since Birth actually appears in the movie, there's no need for him to appear at the last minute like the others.

External Links

Official site

Toei site