The Best Episodes Directed By Itaru Orita

#1 - Blue Shadow, Variblune Secret Strategy

Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 6/7/1975

Director: Itaru Orita

Writer: Shozo Uehara

#2 - Yellow Object Q! Goranger Base S.O.S.

Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 10/25/1975

Director: Itaru Orita

Writer: Shozo Uehara

#3 - Death Match in the Ring: Defeat! Pirasaurus

Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 7/24/1971

Pirazaurus experiments with the powerful deadly gas, “Mist of Death,” at a gogo house. He launches his scheme to obliterate Japanese leaders with the Mist of Death as they spectate a pro wrestling match.

Director: Itaru Orita

Writer: Masaru Igami

#4 - Poisonous Gas Monster Trickabuto's G-Plan

Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 12/11/1971

Shocker's newly developed killer plants are placed in theaters and concert halls as they scheme up the G Strategy to annihilate everyone.

Director: Itaru Orita

Writer: Masayuki Shimada

#5 - The Red Balloon! Wind Speed at 100 Meters

Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 5/14/1975

Director: Itaru Orita

Writer: Shozo Uehara

#6 - Red Pursuit! The Mysterious Seal Train

Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 11/8/1975

Director: Itaru Orita

Writer: Hirohisa Soda

#7 - Raid of the Demon Sabotegron

Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 7/3/1971

Hongo saved Tokyo from a horrible fate at the hands of Shocker.But Hongo can not rest while Shocker's plans to conquer the world grows stronger every day. For justice, and for everlasting peace, Kamen Rider will continue his fight until the very end. Debuting this episode, a new Kamen Rider appears! With three new leading ladies, and more excitement, Thrills, and Action!

Director: Itaru Orita

Writer: Masaru Igami

#8 - The Terrifying Antlion

Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 9/25/1971

While the monster Hell Thunder enacts his plan to make an artificial antlion pit that tears main roads into pieces, the supreme commander Colonel Zol is dispatched from Shocker's branch in the Middle East.

Director: Itaru Orita

Writer: Masaru Igami

#9 - Cannibalism Flower, Dokudalian

Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 11/6/1971

The monster Dokudahlian is made from a man-eating flower that's lived for 200 years in the deep forests of New Guinea and he transforms into a florist who emits hypnosis sound waves.

Director: Itaru Orita

Writer: Mari Takizawa

#10 - The Terrifying Bat Man

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/10/1971

Hongo wins the championship, but the model who brings him his bouquet suddenly bares her fangs and attacks! With growing suspicion, Hongo investigates the woman's home, and finds it has been transformed into a lab.

Director: Itaru Orita

Writer: Masaru Igami

#11 - Counterattack, Sabotegron

Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 7/10/1971

At the end of fierce fighting, Kamen Rider drives Sabotegron away. Sabotegron then uses Flowers of Mexico to attack Hayato and the Tachibana Racing Club.

Director: Itaru Orita

Writer: Masaru Igami

#12 - Wrestler of the Devil, Pirasaurus

Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 7/17/1971

Shocker gets their hands on the Pirazaurus whose poison can kill a giant dinosaur in mere seconds and begin to create a cyborg by combining it with a human.

Director: Itaru Orita

Writer: Masaru Igami

#13 - Cannibalism, Sarracenian

Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/24/1971

At an amusement park's botanical gardens, people begin to go missing. The young boy Kenji's older sister Yukie gets snatched away, and he tries to tell someone that his sister was attacked by a giant King Sarracenian!!

Director: Itaru Orita

Writer: Shin'ichi Ichikawa

#14 - Grim Reaper, Chameleon

Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/8/1971

Former navy lieutenant-commander Sunada is attacked by the Chameleon Man. His aim is a submarine model in Sunada's possession that has secrets relating to a Nazi treasure concealed inside.

Director: Itaru Orita

Writer: Masaru Igami

#15 - Duel With Grim Reaper Chameleon! World Fair Impression

Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/15/1971

Kamen Rider, having fallen into a pit trap, loses his power in the secret room where no wind can reach and reverts back to his form as Hongo.

Director: Itaru Orita

Writer: Masaru Igami

#16 - Murder, Yamogelas

Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 6/19/1971

Doctor Shirakawa has invented a death ray but tries to seal his invention away, while his aid Shibata conspires with Shocker and is remodeled into the monster Geckogeras, making secret plans to take the death ray.

Director: Itaru Orita

Writer: Mari Takizawa

#17 - Mukadelas Monster Classroom

Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 10/2/1971

Children are abducted by a suspicious man who calls himself a close friend of Kamen Rider. The man is the Shocker beast Mukaderas and he controls children with hypnotic radio waves for their scheme to turn them into members of Junior Shocker.

Director: Itaru Orita

Writer: Masaru Igami

#18 - Bloodsucking Monster, Gebacondor

Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 6/12/1971

Shocker has produced a new monster, Gebacondor, by assembling into one all the strong points of their previous monsters. But Gebacondor needs the lifeblood of young women.

Director: Itaru Orita

Writer: Takao Nagaishi

#19 - Monster Kanibubbler Appears in Hokkaido

Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 8/7/1971

For Shocker's plan to cause a tsunami in Hokkaido through submarine earthquakes, they send in the monster Kanibubbler to destroy all seismomitors.

Director: Itaru Orita

Writer: Masayuki Shimada

#20 - Sky-Flying Monster Musasabedol

Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 9/4/1971

Shocker creates the monster Musasabidol to go after a new liquid fuel developed by Doctor Ookuma. Taki, who is visiting Hokkaido, discovers this plan, and after following Taki, Ichimonji confronts Musasabidol.

Director: Itaru Orita

Writer: Masayuki Shimada