To be exact, an AMERICAN Kamen Rider fan film back in 1984! Last month, Justice ACE found a very rare Kamen Rider fan film called, 3 Riders vs. General Dark in which fandom pillar, August Ragone, Oriental Cinema's Damon Foster and the guy who directed Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight, Steve Wang were responsible in making it!
In the first part, Kamen Rider V3 rescues a man who was abducted by Ghost Shocker (the name of the organization in the fan film) and fought one of its monsters, later Kamen Rider Super-1 appears... and the editing of the film looked great back then!
In this second part, Kamen Rider 2 makes his appearance... and they used the classic version! Awesome!
Anyways, here's something that August Ragone commented about these videos in the original post from Justice ACE regarding this fan film which includes how they made the film and who are responsible for it.
THE 3 KAMEN RIDERS VS. GHOST SHOCKER (1987) was one of the many video projects we did for fun with Damon Foster back in the day (such as ULTRA CYBORG and HOT DOGS ON THE RUN). It was conceived by myself and Barrie Evans, and I wrote the original script and directed the first version of the film. This was an entrant in a Kamen Rider fan film contest sponsored by Ishimori Productions and Toei back in 1987, shot mostly around the Cal State Hayward University campus.
The costumes were made by Barrie Evans (the Super-1 Henshin Belt was the toy made by Popy), and while the Kamen Rider 2 helmet was the vinyl kit issued by General Products and the time, the helmets for V3 and Super-1 were full, thick latex masks made by Steve Wang. The kaijin mask was a store-bought monster mask, and the main villain’s cybernetic arm and leg were actual suit pieces given to Barrie at Toei Studios, and were originally used on DIMENSION WARRIOR: SPIELVAN.
After the first version was “in the can”, I also supervised the original ADR, Foley and Music tracks, it was later re-edited by Damon and Barrie. I never had my original materials returned to me, which were mastered on Broadcast-quality video (I don’t know what Barrie did with those materials, which is a shame, because I was never re-imbursed for it, either). Still, with all that being said, we had a fun time making this short film.
A few years later, a quick clip of behind-the-scenes footage was used included in an episode of Fuji Television’s NARUHODO THE WORLD, in which Damon, Barrie and myself were interviewed about our obsession with Tokusatsu. This episode featured Americans who were deep into “Japanese things”. Also appearing in the Tokusatsu segment was noted artist and fan, Alex Wald. Our segment in this episode of NARUHODO THE WORLD was shot in San Francisco in late 1992, and aired in Japan in early 1993.
So guys, what can you say about this classic Kamen Rider fan film?