KAIKETSU ZUBAT
(Swift Hero Zubat)

(1977)

After private detective best friend is murdered by the criminal group Dakka; the detective seeks revenge. Using his friend's design for a suit to be worn by astronauts, the detective creates a costume which gives him super-human speed, agility and strength. Wearing the power suit he becomes Kaiketsu Zubat, the Swift Hero Zubat. The name Zubat comes from the word "zubatto" which is the sound of a whip snapping.

KAIKETSU ZUBAT
32 episode series

TRANSMISSION DATES
2 February 1977 - 28 September 1977

DIRECTOR
Hideo Tanaka

PRODUCER
Toei

CREATOR
Shoutarou Ishinomori

MUSIC
Kensuke Kyo

EPISODES
After The Bomb Comes The Loneliness
From The Flames Comes A Wanderer
The Melancholy Angel of Gold
Sympathy for the Defeated
The Flower Girl and The White Dust
The Machinegun "Howls" In The Sea
The Hateful Winds of the Port Town
The Tearful Propane Explosion
Look Back on the River of Tears
Throw The Baseball Enemy Out
Don't Die On Me Now! The One Second Crisis
Time Till Execution - 10 Seconds
Ballad of the Young Assassin
White Feathered Arrow - Tears of Goodbye
Tearful Lullaby of a Mother's Child
Death of the Innocent - The Power of Sadness
A Sister's Grief - The Two "Kens"
Dangerous! The Big King's Love
Unrequited Love - The Torn Loveletter
Lady Dragon - Pledge of Tears
Farewell To Ken's Mother
Young Boxer - Tears of a Father
The Three Ogami Sisters and the Kid
Melancholy - The Lovers from a Mysterious Town
Kojinyama - Tearful Goodbye
Forgive Him! My Son
At Last! Asuka's Killer
And So Everyone Is Gone
Orphaned Boy - Tears of Revenge
The Sadness Between Life and Death
Resolved! The Culprit is Leader 'L
Farewell "Big Dipper" Sky

CAST

Ken Hayakawa/Kaiketsu Zubat	. . . . . . . . .	Hiroshi Miyauchi
Goro Asuka	. . . . . . . . .	Jirô Okazaki
Dectective Shingo Toiyo	. . . . . . . . .	Saito Makoto
Midori Asuka	. . . . . . . . .	Nobuko Oshiro
Osamu Terada	. . . . . . . . .	Nobuyuki Nakano
Grand Master L	. . . . . . . . .	Hayami Ryuji
ShinsukeJinryu	. . . . . . . . .	Jirô Chiba

KAIKETSU ZUBAT "LINKS"

Henshin Hall of Fame

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