Ninja Captor


Ninja Captor is a Japanese tokusatsu TV series which aired from April 7, 1976, to January 26, 1977. It appeared on TV Tokyo, Channel 12, and was produced by Toei Company, Ltd. Ninja Captor is similar to Toei's own Super Sentai series and aired during the run of Himitsu Sentai Gorenger.

Story

The character Daisuke Izumo graduates from the Wind-Demon Stealth-Army, a secret army aiming for the conquest of Japan. He instead escapes and becomes the leader of the "Captor," a ninja team supervised by Mujin Tendo. The Captor team's mission is to battle the ninja sent out by the Wind-Demon General, Retsufu Fuma.

Captor team

  • Fire-Ninja Captor 7/Daisuke Izumo. 21 years old. Although he is an elite graduate student of the Fūma Ninja Group, he has against his own thoughts when General Retsufū Fūma begins aiming for conquest in Japan and decided to become a ninja, and was appointed as the leader of the Captors from the former teacher Mujin Tendō.
  • *Weapon: Fire Wheel Bullet
  • *Technique: Fire Escape
  • *Color: Red
  • *Element: Fire
  • Wind-Ninja Captor 6/Keita Izumi. 15 years old. He is the youngest Captor and a third-year middle school student. He has a strong friendship and trusts his classmates strongly, but he is reckless and certainly fails his recognized efforts. After Nindo Kurayami was dead in the final episode, he and Maria are getting married for a wedding.
  • *Weapon: Wind Shell
  • *Color: Green
  • *Element: Air
  • Gold-Ninja Captor 5/Noboru Oyama. 17 years old. A high school student who is a ninja in training and is responsible of the maintenance of Captor Car and Captor Machine. He also works part-time at the electronics store.
  • *Weapon: Disk
  • *Color: Yellow
  • *Element: Metal
  • Ground-Ninja Captor 4/Dan Kurokawa. 23 years old. Has extraordinary hearing ability. He is in charge of operating the Captor Machine. He usually works out at the wrestling gym and works part-time at the transportation industry.
  • *Weapon: Ground Staff
  • *Color: Brown
  • *Element: Earth
  • Flower-Ninja Captor 3 I/María Sakurakoji. 15 years old. She poses as Keita's guardian and has a bright personality. Keita refers to her as his wife. After the devastation of the Fūma Ninja Group, she was invited for the ninja society at the college in the United States. After Nindo Kurayami was dead in the final episode, she and Keita are getting married for a wedding.
  • *Weapon: Flower Nunchaku
  • *Color: Pink
  • *Element: Nature
  • Flower-Ninja Captor 3 II/Miki Tendō: 15 years old. Mujin's granddaughter. While watching the Captors' success, she becomes Maria's successor after Maria visits the United States.
  • Water-Ninja Captor 2/Sakon Shijo. 22 years old. A third-year student of the Naboku University who also works as a swimming instructor. He usually teaches children at the swimming lessons.
  • *Weapon: Rapid Stream Gun
  • *Color: Blue
  • *Element: Water
  • Thunder-Ninja Captor 1/Saburobei Fukuro. 45 years old. A sentimental butler of Mujin Tendō and the oldest of the Captors. He hates dust and likes to keep the house tidy. He is also good at finding things by using his nose.
  • *Weapon: Electric Rope
  • *Color: Orange
  • *Element: Thunder

    Staff

  • Created by Saburo Yatsude
  • Produced by Toru Hirayama, Kohito Ono, Bakosu Kondo
  • Directed by Hideo Tanaka, Atsuo Okunaka, Daisuke Yamazaki, Kyomi Nakamura
  • Teleplays by Masaru Igami, Shukei Nagasaka, Chikusa Enda, Mikio Matsushita
  • Character Design by Yuki Hijiri
  • Action Choreography by Kazutoshi Takahashi
  • Music by Akihiro Omori
  • Theme Songs: Opening "Fight! Ninja Captors", and Ending "Captors of the Open Skies"

    Cast

  • Daisuke Izumo: Daisuke Ban
  • Keita Izumi: Hiroyuki Satō
  • Noboru Ōyama: Sanpei Godai
  • Dan Kurokawa: Sen Utsumi
  • María Sakurakōji: Yūko Matsuba
  • Miki Tendō: Ai Nogawa
  • Sakon Shijō: Taikō Rin
  • Saburōbei Fukuro: Kenji Ushio
  • Mujin Tendō: Makoto Tagiri
  • Hakūn Togakushi: Takamaru Sasaki
  • Jūrō Ōmori: Nobuyuki Nakano
  • Hyōdai Kōtō: Kuhisa Nakayama
  • Kansuke Yamahara: Shōtoshi Ōyama
  • Tamibe Itō: Kyōhito Fuyama
  • Magoyatsu Imura: Masahiro Kamiya
  • Kenta Yaki: Ikki Onoda
  • Ayame Mizuno: Misaki Suzuki
  • Retsufū Fūma/Nindō Kurayami: Shinzō Hotta
  • Officer Kageyama: Jōriki Gono
  • Officer Sanada: Sanji Kojima
  • Officer Hattori: Iwao Dan
  • Narrator: Goro Naya

    Episode list

  1. The Seven Ninjas Rise at the Tokyo Tower
  2. The Secret of the Rocket Ninja Arts
  3. The Ninjas Disappeared in the Walls of the Building!?
  4. The Sky-flying Octopus Ninja! Dogfight!!
  5. The Captor Massacre Strategy
  6. A Great Escape! Ninja Lessons!!
  7. Mystery: The Stolen Face?!
  8. Crash! Highway Ninja War
  9. Friend or Foe? The Woman Ninja
  10. Mystery! Robot Usage
  11. The Poisonous Gas Ninja is Immortal
  12. SOS Wind-Nin Captor 6
  13. The Great Treasure of Illusion
  14. Fire-Nin Captor Dies Twice
  15. The Ogre from the Manji Valley!
  16. The Daughter of the Hidden Ninja is a Classmate
  17. Aiming at the Fake Note Expert
  18. Ninja Arts! Kabutomushi Change!!
  19. Fuma Boy Ninja is a Close Friend
  20. Ninja Skills Expert of the Black Piano
  21. Decisive Battle at Fuma's Graveyard is a Campsite!
  22. Fuma Appeared in the Ghost Residence!!
  23. Priest Roadperson! Ground-Nin! Comparing Techniques
  24. Fire-Nin is working on the Underworld Whistle
  25. Dreadful! Keita Betrayed!!
  26. Retsufu Fuma! Die!!
  27. A New Enemy! Koka Ninja Group
  28. Enrollment: Tendo Ninja Lessons
  29. Conjurer of Riddle! The Card Talks!?
  30. The Black Trap of the Ninja Technique Residence
  31. Izuyama's confrontation!!
  32. Play-off of the Distant Seas!!
  33. Great Pursuit! Ninja Bus!
  34. The Demonic Hands comes out the Telephone Receiver!
  35. The Terrifying Butterfly Human
  36. Seven Countenance is Grim Reaper
  37. The End of Mujin Tendo
  38. Hakun Togakushi's Assassination Plot!!
  39. The Sense Power Ninja Aims for the Children of ESP
  40. Careful! New Year's Present from Ninjas!?
  41. Laughing Dolls
  42. Dark Glass! Ninja Classroom?!
  43. The End of Nindo Kurayami

    International broadcast

  • In Thailand, the series aired on Channel 7 from 10:00 to 10:30 on Saturdays and Sundays entitled chet ninja around 1983–1984.