Moonlight Mask (1958)
Original title: 月光仮面
Moonlight Mask is a 1958 Japanese-language action & adventure series created by Kōhan Kawauchi. It stars Seizo Kato, Koichi Ose and Toshiyasu Hiyoshi.
Moonlight Mask (aka Gekko Kamen), is a black and white tokusatsu TV drama series, produced by the advertising agency Senkosha and was aired on KRTV (now TBS) from February 24, 1958 to July 5, 1959, with a total of 130 (or 131) episodes, divided into 5 segments.
Since the original show, Gekko Kamen has gained the popularity of being the first Japanese live action television superhero, appearing in films and TV shows well past the length of the original series.
Cast
- Seizo Kato as Policeman Kitamura
- Koichi Ose as Juro Iwai
- Toshiyasu Hiyoshi as Shige
- Koichi Kitamura as Policeman Yasui
- Fumiko Fujiwara as Setsuko Yamamoto
- Ichiro Sato as Chief Detective Matsuda
- Kiyomi Fukagawa as The Maid
- Kumie Saruwaka as Konomi
- Norio Ôtsuka as Reporter Yamamoto
- Eiji Muto as Dr. Akaboshi
- Shiro Kuno as Gorohachi Fukuro
- Yoshiko Uno as Kaboko