[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

And I’ll mention that Kotaro’s actor went on to be Narita in Ghost. That probably the most notable thing people think of when they think of Narita.

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

Mizoguchi would go on to return in Kamen Rider Ghost as Shibuya, one of the two assistant monks whose names I can never remember. Shibuya is the one with glasses and the awful mom who gets turned back into a kid at one point.

This confusion over which Temple Dork a guy played on Ghost is maybe the most brutal indictment of their collective superfluousness. Was he the one who shouted "Takeru!", or the one who shouted "Monster!"? There's no way to know!

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

The ending of this film always gets me, the bit with Ryotaro's parents and then seeing Ryutaros's crayon drawing in place of the lost photo. It's a nice, sweet, simple moment.

It really drills home the movie's theme that The Past isn't a thing you can hold onto; that our memories are more powerful than our losses. It even lets the most selfish monster contribute something!

Also, I remembered the other thing I wanted to talk about!

Maybe I'm reading too much into it (sounds like me), but I like the subtle implication that this movie is where the younger version of Ryotaro gets the idea of an imaginary friend/hero who looks like Momotaros. It'd be a nice little time loop, Momotaros creating his own reality by accident. Not sure if it's intentional by the movie, but I like the little detail of this maybe being Momotaros's "origin".