Kamen Rider Ryuki the Movie: EPISODE FINAL

Director's Cut; ディレクターズ・カット
	; DVD
Studio	Toei
Distributor	Toei Video (Retail)
Release date(s)	August 8, 2003 (DVD); September 11, 2019 (Complete Blu-ray)
Running time	97 minutes
Forum Thread	Thread

Kamen Rider Ryuki the Movie: EPISODE FINAL; 劇場版仮面ライダー龍騎 EPISODE FINAL
	; Blu-ray
Director	Tasaki Ryuta
Writer	Inoue Toshiki
Starring	Suga Takamasa; Matsuda Satoshi; Odai Ryohei; Hagino Takashi; Sugiyama Ayano; Kikuchi Kenzaburou
Composer	Maruyama Kazunori; Watanabe Cher
Studio	Toei
Distributor	Toei Video (Retail)
Release date(s)	August 17, 2002; January 21, 2003 (DVD); May 21, 2009 (Blu-ray); September 11, 2019 (Complete Blu-ray)
Running time	78 minutes
Gross revenue	1.43 billion yen
Forum Thread	Thread

Kamen Rider Ryuki
< Ep 28	EPISODE FINAL エピソードファイナル	Ep 29 >

The Kamen Rider Ryuki summer movie. The second Heisei Rider movie.

Double featured with Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger Shushutto THE MOVIE.

Catchphrases:

You can't imagine such a grand battle.

(想像を超える壮大な戦闘〈バトル〉。)

Ryuki's shocking conclusion. The final episode appears in the theaters first.

(龍騎、衝撃の結末。最終回、先行映画化。)

Story

Kanzaki instates a three day time limit for the Rider Battles to finish. At the same time, the Mirror Monsters start appearing in packs.
Yui remembers she drew pictures of Monsters in front of the mirror so that they would protect her.
Apparently, Shinji and Yui played together once as kids, agreeing to meet again the next day. Since it was raining, Shinji didn't go, so Yui felt very forlorn. That's when her Mirror World version invites her into the mirror. However, she spends too much time in Mirror World and can't return to the real world.
Yui's Mirror World version gives her life to Yui, so that Yui can return to the real world without dying. In exchange, the Mirror World version takes the pictures of Monsters. However, the life runs out when Yui turns into 20 years old.
Yui dies after blowing the birthday cake.
Ren finally befriends Shinji. Both transform into Survive form and head off to fight a swarm of Mirror Monsters.

Kamen Riders

Kamen Rider Femme (仮面ライダーファム)
Kamen Rider Ryuga (仮面ライダーリュウガ)
Kamen Rider Ouja Blank (仮面ライダー王蛇ブランクフォーム)
Kamen Rider Ryuki Survive (仮面ライダー龍騎サバイブ)

Cards Used

Femme	Ouja	Zolda	Ryuga	Knight	Ryuki
Sword Vent Final Vent Guard Vent	Advent Unite Vent Final Vent	Final Vent	Final Vent Advent	Trick Vent Final Vent Advent	Final Vent

Mirror Monsters

Sheerghost (シアゴースト)
Raydragoon (レイドラグーン)
Blancwing (ブランウイング)
Dragblacker (ドラグブラッカー)
Hydragoon (ハイドラグーン)
Dragranzer (ドラグランザー)

Movie Characters

Kirishima Miho / Kamen Rider Femme (霧島美穂 / 仮面ライダーファム) - Kato Natsuki

A swindler who makes money from marriage fraud. Her older sister was killed by Asakura, so she had her cryogenically frozen.

Mirror Kido Shinji / Kamen Rider Ryuga (鏡像の城戸真司 / 仮面ライダーリュウガ) - Suga Takamasa

A Mirror World version of Shinji.

Cast

Kido Shinji / Kamen Rider Ryuki - Suga Takamasa → 城戸真司 / 仮面ライダー龍騎 - 須賀貴匡
Akiyama Ren / Kamen Rider Knight - Matsuda Satoshi → 秋山蓮 / 仮面ライダーナイト - 松田悟志
Kitaoka Shuuichi / Kamen Rider Zolda - Odai Ryohei → 北岡秀一 / 仮面ライダーゾルダ - 涼平
Asakura Takeshi / Kamen Rider Ouja - Hagino Takashi → 浅倉威 / 仮面ライダー王蛇 - 萩野崇
Kirishima Miho / Kamen Rider Femme - Kato Natsuki → 霧島美穂 / 仮面ライダーファム - 加藤夏希
Mirror Kido Shinji / Kamen Rider Ryuga - Suga Takamasa (double role) → 鏡像の城戸真司 / 仮面ライダーリュウガ - 須賀貴匡
Yura Gorou - Yuge Tomohisa → 由良吾郎 - 弓削智久
Kanzaki Yui - Sugiyama Ayano → 神崎優衣 - 杉山彩乃
Kanzaki Shirou - Kikuchi Kenzaburou → 神崎士郎 - 菊地謙三郎
Kanzaki Sanako - Tsunogae Kazue → 神崎沙奈子 - 角替和枝
Momoi Reiko - Kuon Sayaka → 桃井令子 - 久遠さやか
Shimada Nanako - Kurihara Hitomi → 島田奈々子 - 栗原瞳
Ookubo Daisuke - Tsuda Kanji → 大久保大介 - 津田寛治
Taxi Driver - Bengaru → タクシー運転手 - ベンガル
Mansion Owner - Ebisu Yoshikazu → 豪邸の主 - 蛭子能収
Mizuoka Kazuo - Sawamukai Yoji (credited as - 沢向要士) → 水岡和郎 - 澤向要進
Miho's older sister - Erena → 霧島美穂の姉 - 英玲奈
Kanzaki Shirou (12 years ago) - 平野勇樹
Kanzaki Yui (12 years ago) - 小関美穂
Hisamatsu Nobuyoshi

Agito Guests

Restaurant Worker - Kasyu Toshiki → レストラン店員 - 賀集利樹
Asakura Takeshi's Victim - Tomoi Yuusuke → 浅倉威の被害者 - 友井雄亮
Amusement Park Staff - Akiyama Rina → 遊園地スタッフ - 秋山莉奈
Okonomiyaki Worker - Shibata Akiyoshi → お好み焼き屋店員 - 柴田明良
Okonomiyaki Customer - Kaname Jun → お好み焼き屋の客 - 要潤
Okonomiyaki Customer - Fujita Touko → お好み焼き屋の客 - 藤田瞳子
Okonomiyaki Customer - Yamasaki Jun → お好み焼き屋の客 - 山崎潤

Voice Actors

Sheerghost / Raydragoon - Shibamoto Hiroyuki → シアゴースト / レイドラグーン - 柴本浩行
Sheerghost / Raydragoon - Soya Shigenori → シアゴースト / レイドラグーン - 宗矢樹頼
Sheerghost / Raydragoon - Chida Yoshimasa → シアゴースト / レイドラグーン - 千田義正
Sheerghost / Raydragoon - Shiono Katsumi → シアゴースト / レイドラグーン - 塩野勝美
Visors - Koyama Tsuyoshi → バイザー - 小山剛志

Stunt Actors

Kamen Rider Ryuki - Takaiwa Seiji → 仮面ライダー龍騎 - 高岩成二
Kamen Rider Knight - Ito Makoto → 仮面ライダーナイト - 伊藤慎
Kamen Rider Zolda - Oshikawa Yoshifumi → 仮面ライダーゾルダ - 押川善文
Kamen Rider Ouja/Ryuga - Okamoto Jirou → 仮面ライダー王蛇 - 岡元次郎
Kamen Rider Femme - Hashimoto Keiko → 仮面ライダーファム - 橋本恵子

Song Used

Alive A Life -Advent mix-: Lyrics: Ebine Yuko; Composer: Wada Kohei; Arranger: Wada Kohei, Honda Katsuya; Singer: Matsumoto Rica

Trivia

In the church, Kanzaki throws everyone their Card Decks except Shinji, who is left to pick it up on his own.
Shinji says Miho has a lot of faces, but he's the one that literally has another face in terms of having a Mirror World version.
When Miho dies, there's a crow by her Card Deck and a black feather. The people passing are all wearing black.
This is the first and only time when Riders fight in the Real World as seen when Ren fights Ryuga as well as the final battle between Shinji and Ryuga.
Suga Takamasa portrays both Ryuki and Ryuga in this movie since Ryuga is the Mirror World verison of Shinji.
Movie revealed things like Ryuki Survive, the Mirror World Yui substory, and Mirror Monster Sheerghost before they appeared in the TV series.
The movie foreshadows of how Yui is relevant to the Rider Battles, Mirror Monsters, and Mirror World. This also includes Kanzaki Shirou's intentions to save Yui through winning the Rider Battle.
The premise of the movie was to tell the story of the last three days of the story before it happened. In terms of the TV series, this movie would take place after episode 47.
Kamen Rider Femme is the first female Kamen Rider.
This was the first movie of this series to be filmed with the Panasonic HD video camera VARICAM.

Corrections

From the HD theatrical cut.

09:13 - isn’t the sentence suppose to be “Gorou-chan, what do you think?”?
10:30 - change “That’s...!” into “She’s...!”.
13:19 - change “What?!” into “How come there are so many of them?!”.
13:25 - put “Yui” in front of “isn’t it your birthday soon”.
18:48 - change “simple” into “idiot”.
20:36 - the transformation effect is broken.
31:44 - missed a comma after the “Monsters”.
37:59 - the “Final Vent” missed yellow flashing stroke effect on the logos.
44:23 - missed “Here you go.” after “Cheese.”.

Director's Cut

An extension of the movie with additional footages that are not shown in the theatrical cut.

A list of extended or edited scenes:

The Final Vent cards reduced from thirteen cards into six cards.
A man, talking on the phone, becomes the first victim to be fed by the Mirror Monsters.
Extension of the Riders fighting the Mirror Monsters.
Movie banner includes Director's Cut Ver.
Shinji gets a call from his Editor-in-Chief in the middle of a scary story contest.
Shinji and Reiko expose to Miho about Mizuoka Kazuo is a marriage swindler.
Miho is actually a swindler when Shinji discovers his wallet is gone missing.
Extension of Kitaoka thinking about some entertainment for himself.
Mizuoka is dragged into the Mirror World.
Longer cut of the Riders fighting the Mirror Monsters with Ryuki using the Final Vent card.
Extend the scene of Sanako reveals Yui's past with Yui later denies about it.
Asakura fights his victims takes place after the scene of Sanako reveals Yui's past.
A flashback of Asakura actually killed Miho's sister.
Miho proposes cooperation to Ren and Shinji for defeating Asakura together.
Re-edited the footage of Miho asking Shinji out for a date.
Yui runs off to dig out the Mirror Monster pictures she drew.
Extension of Ryuga making his first appearance.
Kitaoka decides to go out to buy flowers for Reiko after dropping out the Rider Battle.
Miho properly asks Shinji out for a date with the extension of both making a mess in the Okonomiyaki restaurant.

The Theatrical Cut version of the movie was re-released in Blu-ray in 2009 due to Toei's decision to embrace into HD quality. However, the Director's Cut version was not part of the release at that time which left it remained in DVD format. The THE MOVIE Complete Blu-ray was eventually released on September 11, 2019 (2019-09-11). This release includes the Director's Cut version and the movie's bonus contents in HD quality for the first time in years as well as repacking the 2009 HD of the Theatrical Cut.

Staff

Original Creator:	Ishinomori Shoutarou (石ノ森章太郎)
Supervisor:	Onodera Akira (小野寺章)
Writer:	Inoue Toshiki (井上敏樹)
Director:	Tasaki Ryuta (田崎竜太)
Producer:	Nakasone Chiharu (中曽根千治) (TV Asahi) Shirakura Shinichiro (白倉伸一郎) Takebe Naomi (武部直美) (Toei)
Music:	Maruyama Kazunori (丸山和範) Watanabe Cher (渡部チェル)
Cinematographer:	Matsumura Fumio (松村文雄)
Editor:	Osada Naoki (長田直樹)
Action Director:	Miyazaki Takeshi (宮崎剛) Kaneda Osamu (金田治) (Japan Action Enterprise)
Tokusatsu Director:	Butsuda Hiroshi (佛田洋)
Production:	Toei (東映) Toei Animation (東映アニメーション) TV Asahi (テレビ朝日) Toei Video (東映ビデオ) ADK (エーディーケー) Toei Advertising (東映エージエンシー) Bandai (バンダイ)