Kamen Rider: The First (mandarin dub) meets the hype of Kamen Rider

Please note: I listened to the mandarin dub of Kamen Rider: The First for this review. I did it after hearing about the 10 year anniversary this year.

The beginning of the film has to do with Kamen Rider: The First, being in college discussing the human body and how it's part of nature. When asked by his female colleague about the human body, he responds that it's 60% water, like the plants outside featured in the camera shots. There's beauty even in the realistic Christopher Nolan coincidental type film that this toku is trying to be.
Ichigo also discusses wanting to stay in University, school, a safe area that all students are familiar with, growing up there for 20+ years. Some form independent opinions, but some are institutionalized forming certain ideas of how life was from textbooks and professors. Textbooks that are no better sold than by politicians dealing with weapons salesman, and professors of a lacking education system, struggling to make money, struggling to teach, struggling to benefit others including themselves, to make themselves feel mentally active as well.



Other notes:
Kamen Rider 1's love story parallels the other love stories of the film. And they even make a reference to shipping in the film.
2, what don't you say that you're KR 2? Because it's cooler that way.
It's a bit of an unwelcome love triangle for me, albeit it demonstrates that there's struggles for them cuz of being Kamen Rider and creations of Shocker.
The hospital love story.
Suicide
It's a good story, and idea, but it wasn't edited right, introduced a bit too late in the film to gain interest, and too short to have people care about it, albeit I didn't quite understand what everyone's complaint was considering how short of a segment in the film it was. (I would've started with this as the introduction.)



2 also knows the female protagonist, a main connection to the fresh out of water bystander protagonist ta la Vickie Vale in Batman and Marty McFly in Back to the Future.
Speaking of which, Batman Shocker sounds like a friggin variety show host and salesman.

There are some Shotaro Ishinomori references that you might've missed. (Might've. You probably got it.)
Leaping from a building you just exploded could be a 9/11 reference to how people had to leap out of the Twin Towers to survive the collapse.
Nazi references include the S S Shocker Shocker logo.
The place where 2 and the female protagonist work are also parallels between being institutionalized and being in an institution.

Smoking doesn't kill someone in the movie, but someone is killed after smoking a cab in the movie.
Taking care of a taxi, a blue collar workjer.
Originally knocking out KR 2



Nitpicks: I wouldn't wanted to know more about Shocker if they were going the Batman Begins route. (It came out the same time so can't blame them.)