Kamen Rider Black

Kamen Rider Black (仮面ライダーBLACKブラック, Kamen Raidā Burakku) is a Japanese tokusatsu superhero-drama television series. It is the eighth installment in the Kamen Rider series and a co-production between Ishimori Productions and Toei. The series aired on the Mainichi Broadcasting System and the Tokyo Broadcasting System from October 4, 1987, to October 9, 1988. For distribution purposes, Toei refers to this television series as Black Kamen Rider.

Kamen Rider Black
GenreTokusatsu
Superhero fiction
Science fiction
Action/Adventure
Dark Fantasy
Drama
Conspiracy
Created byShotaro Ishinomori
Based onHave You Seen The Kamen Rider?!
by Shotaro Ishinomori
Written byShōzō Uehara (eps 1-12)
Noboru Sugimura (eps 13-51)
Directed byYoshiaki Kobayashi
Starring
  • Tetsuo Kurata
  • Takahito Horiuchi
  • Akemi Inoue
  • Ayumi Taguchi
  • Hitomi Yoshii
  • Jun Yoshida
Voices of
  • Shōzō Iizuka
  • Toshimichi Takahashi
  • Masaki Terasoma
Narrated byKiyoshi Kobayashi
Issei Masamune
ComposerEiji Kawamura
Country of originJapan
No. of episodes51
Production
Running time30 minutes
Production companiesToei Company
Ishimori Productions
Original release
NetworkMBS
TBS
ReleaseOctober 4, 1987 (1987-10-04) 
October 9, 1988 (1988-10-09)
Related
Manga
Written byShotaro Ishinomori
Published byShogakukan
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Sunday
DemographicShōnen
Original run19871989
Volumes6

The series has spawned a manga adaptation that ran in Shōnen Sunday during its broadcast; a direct sequel, Kamen Rider Black RX, in 1988; and a remake, Kamen Rider Black Sun, in 2022.

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