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Kamen Rider Black Actor Tetsuo Kurata to Attend Battle of the Toys Event in August
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Indonesian hobbyist toy retailer Victory Toys announced last Thursday that actor Tetsuo Kurata will attend the Battle of the Toys event, which will take place on August 27-28 at JI Expo, Kemayoran. Victory Toys posted a video announcement with Kurata confirming his attendance.
Kurata is also scheduled to appear in the Jakarta Toys and Comic Fair in 2017. Victory Toys also organizes the event.
Kurata is perhaps best known for his debut role as Kotaro Minami, the main character of the 1987 Kamen Rider BLACK tokusatsu series. He reprised the role for the sequel Kamen Rider BLACK RX, as well as the two live-action films, and the Kamen Rider Decade show in 2009. He performed the theme songs to the Kamen Rider BLACK show and films. He has also acted in other TV shows such as Kimi no Na wa and Nogaremono Orin.
Indonesian television channel RCTI Indonesian aired Kamen Rider BLACK in the country in 1992, and the Indosiar channel also aired it in 2004. Indosiar aired the Kamen Rider Decade film in 2013.
[Via Kaori Nusantara]