The Best Episodes Directed By Minoru Yamada

#1 - Deathmatch! Monster Snowman vs. Two Riders

Season 1 Episode 40 - Aired 1/1/1972

Doctor Reaper of Shocker's Swiss branch takes up a new post in the Japanese division. He makes plans to detonate Kirishima's volcanic belt by digging an underground tunnel between Kirishima and Sakurajima.

Director: Minoru Yamada

Writer: Masaru Igami

#2 - Magma Monster Ghoster, Decisive Battle at Sakurajima

Season 1 Episode 41 - Aired 1/8/1972

For the construction of a tunnel that connects Sakurajima and Ebi Heights, Doctor Reaper sends in the monster Ghoster.

Director: Minoru Yamada

Writer: Masaru Igami

#3 - Doctor Shinigami, the True Meaning of Terror?

Season 1 Episode 68 - Aired 7/15/1972

Appearing in Japan once again, Doctor Reaper has a plan to destroy Japan by controlling a meteorite.

Director: Minoru Yamada

Writer: Masaru Igami

#4 - Gel-Shocker Appears! Kamen Rider's Last Day!

Season 1 Episode 80 - Aired 10/7/1972

With Ambassador Hell's defeat, Shocker's Japan division is abandoned. However the Shocker Chief adds the power of Africa's secret organization Geldam and forms the new organization Gel-Shocker.

Director: Minoru Yamada

Writer: Masaru Igami

#5 - 8 Kamen Riders

Season 1 Episode 93 - Aired 1/6/1973

Kamen Rider #1 is driven back by the Shocker Rider and the monster Haetoribachi's coordination and sinks under the sea with Haetoribachi.

Director: Minoru Yamada

Writer: Masaru Igami

#6 - The True Identity of the Gel-Shocker Leader

Season 1 Episode 94 - Aired 1/13/1973

Wih the Anti-Shocker Alliance's back up, the double Riders are able to escape danger and take Raydokuga prisoner. Moreover, to defeat Shocker Rider, they begin special training under Tobei's tutelage.

Director: Minoru Yamada

Writer: Masaru Igami

#7 - Rider No. 3: His Name is V3!

Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 2/17/1973

The hard-won peace obtained with the defeat of Gel-Shocker by Kamen Riders #1 and #2, is now shattered by a more powerful secret society known as Destron. Disposing of all those who witness their sinister movements, they target Shiro Kazami, a young motorcross racer. After Scissors Jaguar murders his family, Shiro vows vengeance and becomes Kamen Rider V3.

Director: Minoru Yamada

Writer: Masaru Igami

#8 - Great Crimson Victory!! Shine Forever, Five Stars

Season 1 Episode 84 - Aired 3/26/1977

Director: Minoru Yamada

Writer: Shozo Uehara

#9 - A Crimson Kick! Smash the Micro Big Plan

Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/26/1975

Director: Minoru Yamada

Writer: Shozo Uehara

#10 - Monster Wolf Man's Huge Murder Party

Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 12/25/1971

Colonel Zol executes his Wolf Strategy to make werewolves with the Wolf Virus. In the midst of this, the young girl Kumiko from the Wakakusa Garden orphanage witnesses one of these experimental wolfmen.

Director: Minoru Yamada

Writer: Masaru Igami

#11 - Vampiric Mosquilas vs. Two Riders

Season 1 Episode 72 - Aired 8/12/1972

The new monster Mosquilas comes from South America and plots to create a Shocker base in the Kii Peninsula.

Director: Minoru Yamada

Writer: Ikuro Suzuki

#12 - Kamen Rider Dies Twice!

Season 1 Episode 81 - Aired 10/14/1972

Gel-Shocker's Scorpiolizard uses the Shocker scientists as the guinea pigs for an oxygen deprivation gas and eliminates them. However one scientist, Takashi, does escape. Scorpiolizard pursues Takashi and attacks his wife's hospital.

Director: Minoru Yamada

Writer: Masaru Igami

#13 - Big Counterattack! A Yellow Whirlwind

Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/19/1975

Director: Minoru Yamada

Writer: Shozo Uehara

#14 - Pink KO Punch! End Ball Game

Season 1 Episode 61 - Aired 9/18/1976

Director: Minoru Yamada

Writer: Shozo Uehara

#15 - The New Multicolored Vehicle!! Varikyūn Launches

Season 1 Episode 69 - Aired 11/20/1976

Director: Minoru Yamada

Writer: Shozo Uehara

#16 - Big Crimson Decisive Battle!! The Earth Migration Plan

Season 1 Episode 71 - Aired 12/4/1976

Director: Minoru Yamada

Writer: Shozo Uehara

#17 - Crimson Pursuit!! The Formless Assassin's True Form

Season 1 Episode 79 - Aired 2/5/1977

Director: Minoru Yamada

Writer: Shozo Uehara

#18 - Double Riders' Defeat! Shiomaneking

Season 1 Episode 73 - Aired 8/19/1972

Shocker's plans to establish a base on the southern tip of the Kii Peninsula obstructed, they use Crabking to abduct the oceanographer Doctor Sakai who dreams of an undersea farm.

Director: Minoru Yamada

Writer: Ikuro Suzuki

#19 - Last Testament of the Double Riders

Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 2/24/1973

Destron's Scissors-Jaguar separates V3 from the Double Riders to allow Turtle Bazooka to vaporize Tokyo with the H-Bomb contained inside his body. Scissors Jaguar decoys Shiro and keeps him away from Turtle Bazooka. Can V3 warn Rider One and Two in time? Will V3 and the Double Riders stop the mutants before Tokyo is wiped off of the map?

Director: Minoru Yamada

Writer: Masaru Igami

#20 - Super Energy of Silver! Burning Hell

Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 6/28/1975

Director: Minoru Yamada

Writer: Susumu Takaku

#21 - The Purple Theme Park! A Demonic Cemetery

Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 8/9/1975

Director: Minoru Yamada

Writer: Susumu Takaku

#22 - Horrible Black Crusaders! Attack According to the (Secret) Plan

Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 8/16/1975

Director: Minoru Yamada

Writer: Kimio Hirayama

#23 - Blue Miracle! The Mysterious Airship That Came From Antiquity

Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 9/6/1975

Director: Minoru Yamada

Writer: Shozo Uehara

#24 - Yellow Air Raid! Nightmares of Atlantis

Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 9/13/1975

Director: Minoru Yamada

Writer: Shozo Uehara

#25 - Green Dogfight! The End of the Mysterious Airship

Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 9/20/1975

Director: Minoru Yamada

Writer: Shozo Uehara