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Kamen Rider Drive and Ghost Crossover Film Opens on December 12
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Toei announced the new Kamen Rider film in its Movie Taisen (Movie War) series of crossover films with the title Kamen Rider x Kamen Rider Ghost & Drive Chō Movie Taisen on Wednesday. Toei also updated its Movie Taisen official website on Thursday, and began streaming a trailer for the film. The trailer previews the film's plot, and reveals the film's December 12 opening date.
As with other movies in the Kamen Rider film series, Kamen Rider x Kamen Rider Ghost & Drive Chō Movie Taisen's plot crosses over the current Kamen Rider series with the previous one. In the film, Takeru Tenkūji (Kamen Rider Ghost) and Shinnosuke tomari (Kamen Rider Drive) encounter each other as they are chasing a Ganma, and are sent 10 years back in time to 2005. Takeru finds his father still alive in this year, and Shinnosuke finds Mr. Belt before they have actually met. While Takeru wishes to change his father's fate, he doesn't realize that it is a trap set by Leonardo da Vinci, revived as a Ganma. Meanwhile, in the present, Kamen Rider Spectre and Kamen Rider Mach work to stop the revived Roidmude.
Kamen Rider Ghost, the latest installment in the long-running Kamen Rider special effects series, premiered on TV Asahi on October 4.
In the story, Takeru momentarily loses his life at the hands of a Ganma, who are mysterious beings from another world. However, thanks to the strange power of a hermit (played by Naoto Takenaka), Takeru is brought back to life and given the power of a Kamen Rider and becomes Kamen Rider Ghost. In order to completely come back to life, Takeru must seek out the "Eyecons" of the "15 Great Men."
The new series features eyes as the transformation key item, called "Eyecons." Takeru uses the Eyecons to borrow powers from great heroes of the past, such as Miyamoto Musashi, Isaac Newton, and Thomas Edison. For example, in his "Newton Soul" form, Kamen Rider Ghost can manipulate gravity. When Takeru uses these powers, his form changes.
Source: Anime! Anime!
