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The world's first film about the history of the creation of mixed martial arts.
Special appearance by Satoru Sayama, the first Tiger Mask, in the entire film.
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Trailer

AWARD

We are submitting Masked Fighter to film festivals around the world.

【 AWARD】5 devision

Hagi Ibasho film festivals

・Best audience award

Andromeda Film Festival

・BEST DOCUMENTARY 

ROSHANI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2023

・DOCUMENTARY

New York Movie Awards

・Feature Documentary

Virgin Spring Cinefest

・Documentary Films

 

【Honourable Mention】

Paris Film Awards

・Feature Documentary

IDEAL international film festival

・Documentary Film

 

【Selected】

 

RED Movie Awards

・Best Documentary MAIN CATEGORY

French International Modern Film and Script Festival

・Best Feature Documentary

King Film Awards

・Best Feature Documentary

Movie Town Online Film Festival

・Best Feature Documentary

Star International Film Festival 

・Best Feature Documentary

History of the film's birth

Did you all know about the history?

Mixed martial arts, which has spread so widely worldwide, is a sport created in Japan. 
And it was the first Tiger Mask Satoru Sayama and his students, the first shooters(MMA fighters), created it.

The Tiger Mask, a social phenomenon in the 1980s and revolutionized professional wrestling, and the person who created MMA are the same.


I think that is something that MMA fans are not aware of.

I wanted to leave that behind as a documentary film, which is how this film production started. In addition, there is a novel by Naoki Prize-winning author Tsuneo Tomita, wrote about the history of judo Sanshiro Sugata.

Like in this novel, the people who created the sport of mixed martial arts wanted to leave a film like 'Sanshiro Sugata' while they were still alive, and this is what they started to make.

STORY

The main character is the professional wrestler Super Rider. He is a former mixed martial arts champion and the first disciple of the first Tiger Mask (Satoru Sayama).


He has two sons who are also MMA fighters, and they also fight in the ring to become champion.
The history and the secret story of how Tiger Mask, who took Japan by storm and revolutionized professional wrestling, created MMA in its early days.


How was MMA created?
The history and struggles of Super Rider's family that went along with it.

Photos

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Director

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I was a professional MMA fighter.

I was the first fighter in the world to compete in the professional MMA flyweight division.

Former world No. 2 in MMA Shooto
8 fights, 3 wins, 1 loss, 4 draws
Belongs to Kiguchi Dojo

And I am also a creator, so I have written 27 books and produced a lot of artwork at the same time.

In the process, I have had the opportunity to meet many interesting people.

I interviewed these people and made my interview videos, and published them.

There were contradictions, conflicts, and emotions of these people.

I realized that it is a film that can express it.

Then I became a film director and started making films.

 

And this is my third film.

I have won more than 50 awards at festivals around the world.

Music  Director

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Bassist, Composer, Insect artist, Professor

Born: Feb 15, 1970
Genres: Jazz / Rock
Instrument: 6-string ElectricBass, Fretless Bass

Electric Bassist Quagero Imazawa was born in Ebetsu-shi Hokkaido, Japan.
The grandson of composer and radical bamboo flutist Kozan Abe, Imazawa playing the bass and studying composition in the early '80s.

News Paper

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3 September 2022 Publisher in the Chunichi newspaper.

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2 September 2022 Published in The Shizuoka News paper.

Cast

Super Rider
Professional wrestler
Tiger Mask
Satoru Sayama

Professional wrestler.

Founder of mixed martial arts.

Shooto Watanabe

Professional mixed martial art fighter.

Former wrestler.

First Fighting NEXUS bantamweight champion.

Mixed martial art fighter Kenjiro Watanabe is his younger brother.

Kenshiro Watanabe

Professional mixed Martial Art fighter.

First IMPACT Lightweight Champion.

3rd IMPACT grappling champion.

2nd ACF Featherweight Champion.

Preview Screening

I organised several previews for the completion of the film.

Thank you very much for all the feedback.

1 July 2023 In Kanda Shrine

Many legends of Martial arts Attend the screening.

And They give review of film.

BASS NINJA Quagero Imazawa who is music director makes his music live in the screening.

Yuki Nakai(Former MMA Champion)

Hayato Sakurai (Former MMA Champion)

Hiroshi Takayama (Acter)

Yuichi Watanabe (Main Cast, Former MMA Champion)

Kozo Urita (MMA Fighter & Pro wrestler)

Tadashi Yokoyama (Former MMA fighter)

3rd preview: 1st ALL WIN Film Festival Hamamatsu
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2nd preview in Cinema aloha, Fujisawa
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1st preview in Itoshima City Nodo Cafe
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Title: Masked Fighter

 

Mixed martial arts was born in Japan. 1985

Running Time

1h20m

Cast

Super Rider

The Blue shark

Shooto Watanabe

Kenshiro Watanabe


Tomoko Watanabe

Yuji Itou


Kenichiro Arai

Takafumi Itou

Takahiro Tababa


Tohru Nakamura

First Shooters

Students in Kiguchi dojo


Noriaki Kiguchi



Special appearance

Sato
ru Sayama






Cooperation

Strong style Professional wrestling


Fighting Nexus

Impact 
Takahiro Tababa

NPO Jikosapo Japan

Kengo Tsuchiya

Mamoru Ohkochi

Satoshi Honma


Tadashi Yokoyama

Kamadaya


Takanori Gomi

Rumina Sato

Seiko Yamamoto


TIGER ARTS
YUKIHIRO NAKAMURA

STRAPPLE SHINYURIGAOKA

Music director

BASSNINJA
Quagero Imazawa


All music composed,arranged and
performed by Quagero Imazawa

"GAAP"
"splashman"
"mark IX"
"superlight"
"brother"
"PAGODA CITY"
"Burningman masked fighter ver."
"say bye masked fighter ver."

except:

"Neon Flicker masked fighter ver."
"Star Pointer masked fighter ver."

performed by Quagero Imazawa
mixed by ARTHAND


"shoot it"
"shoot out"

performed by
Quagero Imazawa(b,vo)
ARTHAND(ds,per)

Producer
Takamasa Iwasaki

Director / Shooting / Editing

 

Kenji Ogusu

Production and authorship
K.O.Corporation
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