Kamen Rider Amazon

Kamen Rider Amazon is a Japanese tokusatsu television series. The fourth installment to be produced as part of the Kamen Rider Series, the series aired in Japan from late 1974 to early 1975 on the NET and Mainichi Broadcasting System.

It was the shortest Kamen Rider series ever, lasting only 24 episodes. While this was believed to be due to the show’s heavy amounts of graphic violence, in reality this was due to a pre-planned changeover between networks airing the program, from NET to MBS/TBS, which requested a clean break in airing series, thus resulting in a pre-planned end at episode 24.

A plane crashes in the Amazon rainforest, leaving young Daisuke Yamamoto stranded without his parents. Soon adopted by an Incan tribe under the name “Amazon”, he becomes a wild child, living off the land. However, his village is massacred by the Ten-Faced Demon Gorgos, who searches for the powerful GiGi Armlet in order to take over the world with it.

The last Inca, Elder Bago, gives Daisuke the GiGi Armlet for safekeeping, and uses his knowledge of Incan science and magic to perform a mystic ritual on Daisuke and transform him into the powerful “Kamen Rider Amazon” before dying. Now in Japan, Daisuke battles the evil organization Geddon, unaware of why they pursue him. Befriending Professor Kousaka’s nephew and niece, Daisuke learns of the GiGi Armlet’s true nature and ultimately defeats Geddon, then the Garanda Empire.