Ninja Sentai Kakuranger

Ninja Sentai Kakuranger (忍者戦隊カクレンジャー) was Toei Company Limited's eighteenth production of the Super Sentai television series.

Certain action footage from this series was used in the third season of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and the brief Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers mini-series.

Plot
400 years ago, the ninja and the Youkai had a great war. The legendary Sarutobi Sasuke and other four ninja sealed the Youkai Commander Nurarihyon and all his Youkai energies away in a cave protected by the "Seal Door". In the present, the only surviving Youkai, Kappa, tricks Sarutobi Sasuke and Kirigakure Saizo's descendants, Sasuke and Saizou, into releasing the Youkai by opening the "Seal Door". Now these two, joined by three other descendants of the great ninja, become the Kakurangers to fight the Youkai with the aid of the Three God Generals.

Kakurangers
"We'll cut down evil without people knowing!!! Ninja Sentai Kakuranger, Arrives!!!"

".....Judgment!!!"



Arsenal

 * Doron Changers
 * Secret Sword Kakuremaru
 * Kakulasers
 * Laser Knives
 * Shinobi Knuckles
 * Red Slicer
 * White Beak
 * Blue Shot
 * Yellow Claw
 * Black Bow
 * Kakuranger Ball
 * Thunder Sword Hikarimaru

Vehicles

 * Nekomaru
 * Shark Machines/Shark Driver
 * Shark Bleeder
 * Shark Launcher
 * Shark Slider

Three God Generals

 * (Super) Muteki Shogun
 * Giant Beast General Red Saruder
 * Beast General Fighter Battle Saruder
 * Giant Beast General White Kark
 * Beast General Fighter Battle Kark
 * Giant Beast General Blue Logan
 * Beast General Fighter Battle Logan
 * Giant Beast General Yellow Kumard
 * Beast General Fighter Battle Kumard
 * Giant Beast General Black Gammer
 * Beast General Fighter Battle Gammer


 * Holy Stealth Beast Tsubasamaru


 * (Super) Kakure Daishogun
 * Super Stealth Beast God Saruder
 * Super Stealth Beast God Kark
 * Super Stealth Beast God Logan
 * Super Stealth Beast God Kumard
 * Super Stealth Beast God Gammer

Allies
"In the name of Heaven, we will punish you!"
 * Announcer (1-39)
 * Sandayuu Momochi (1-31)
 * Hakamenrou (31-53)
 * Reika (25)
 * Tarou & Jirou (26-53)
 * Bun (26-53)
 * Punishment Sailor Sisters (35)
 * Yukiyo
 * Tsukiyo
 * Zashiki-warashi (18)
 * Gali (28-29)
 * Past Rangers
 * Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman
 * Choujin Sentai Jetman
 * Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger
 * Gosei Sentai Dairanger
 * Chouriki Sentai Ohranger

The Youkai Army Corps

 * Nurarihyon (1)
 * Daimaou (23-53)
 * Young Noble Junior/Gasha Skull (14-31)
 * Prof. Yugami (12-31)
 * Nue (27-29)
 * Daidarabotchi (50)
 * Yama-uba (50-52)
 * Flowery Kunoichi Team (15, 16 & 20-53)
 * Dorodoros

Minor Youkai

 * Kappa (1-2, 12, 53)
 * Rokurokubi (1-2, 53)
 * Oboroguruma (3, 12, 53)
 * Azukiarai (1, 3-4, 12, 34, 53)
 * Nurikabe (1, 5-6, 12, 34, 39)
 * Mokumokuren (1, 5-6, 12, 39, 53)
 * Gakisuki (6-7, 53)
 * Bakeneko (8)
 * Oonyuudou (Movie)
 * Hitotsume Kozou Brothers (Movie, 53)
 * Dorotabou (3-4, Movie, 9)
 * Konakijiji (10, 34)
 * Shirouneri (3-4, Movie, 11, 53)
 * Tengu (12)
 * Kanedama (13, 53)
 * Keukegen (3-4, Movie, 14, 34, 53)
 * Shuten Douji Brothers (15-16, 53)
 * Amikiri (3-4, Movie, 17, 53)
 * Tsuchigumo (19, 53)
 * Sarugami (21)
 * Enraenra (22)
 * Umibozu (23, 53)
 * Ittan-momen (25)
 * Kasabake (26)
 * Nuppefuhofu (32, 53)
 * Amanojaku (33)
 * Sunakake Babaa (34, 53)
 * Kamaitachi (35)
 * Bakuki (36, 53)
 * Karakasa (37, 53)
 * Ushioni (38, 53)
 * Noppera-bo (39, 53)
 * 9-Tailed Kitsune (40)
 * Lantern Novice (41, 53)
 * Daradara (42-44)
 * OuMukade (45, 53)
 * Mujina (46, 53)
 * Kasha (47, 53)
 * Yuki-Onna (48)
 * Bimbogami (49, 53)
 * Onbu-Obake/Onbu-Gear (Ohranger vs. Kakuranger)

Super Sentai World

 * Emperor Daidas
 * Daidas' Generals
 * Zaigan
 * Bango
 * Damaru
 * Monsters
 * Soger
 * Irubaru
 * Foot Soldiers
 * Batzler Soldiers (Fiveman)
 * Grinam Soldiers (Jetman)
 * Golem Soldiers (Zyuranger)
 * Cotpotros (Dairanger)
 * Dorodoros (Kakuranger)

Cast

 * Teruaki Ogawa (小川 輝晃): Sasuke
 * Satomi Hirose (広瀬 仁美): Tsuruhime
 * Mao Inoue: Tsuruhime (young)
 * Hiroshi Tsuchida (土田 大): Saizou
 * Shu Kawai (河合 秀): Seikai
 * Kane Kosugi (ケイン・コスギ): Jiraiya
 * Kazuki Yao: Ninjaman (voice)
 * Akira Sakamoto: Momochi Sandayu
 * Daisuke Tsuchiya: Tarou
 * Keisuke Tsuchiya: Jirou
 * Takao Handa: Announcer
 * Kenichi Endo: Junia
 * Nobuyuki Hiyama: Gasha Dokuro (voice)
 * Hidekatsu Shibata: Daimao (voice)
 * Tomoyuki Hotta: Muteki Shogun (voice)
 * Dai Matsumoto: Kakure Daishogun, Tsubasamaru
 * Keiko Hayase: Sakura
 * Hiroshi Koizumi: Kappa (1-2)
 * Kaoru Shinoda: Kanedama (13), Older Hitotsume Kozou (Movie)
 * Takeshi Watabe - Younger Hitotsume Kozou (Movie)
 * Ami Kawai: Amikiri (17)
 * Reiko Chiba: Reika (25)
 * Sho Kosugi: Gali (28-29)
 * Tesshō Genda: Nue (Voice; 27-29)
 * Ryūzaburō Ōtomo: Noppera-bō (Voice; 39)
 * Enjō Sanyūtei (三遊亭 圓丈): Kōshakushi

Suit actors

 * Seiji Takaiwa: Ninja Red, Ninjaman
 * Rie Murakami: Ninja White
 * Takeshi Miyazaki: Ninja Blue
 * Hirofumi Ishigaki: Ninja Yellow
 * Tsutomu Kitagawa: Ninja Black
 * Hideaki Kusaka: Muteki Shogun, Ninjaman

Trivia

 * The name Kakuranger is derived from "kakure" (隠れ) which translates as "to hide."
 * Super Sentai World has the fourth largest amount of rangers gathered together. The largest amount was in the opening of Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger in which almost 182 rangers (the first 34 teams with 15 Sixth Rangers) appeared, the second was the special episode of Turboranger with 53, while the third amount appearing in Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger vs. Super Sentai with 33, with 25 of them being Red Rangers. Ironically, 16 of them appeared in the other 2 specials with the Turboranger special featuring 11 (Battle Japan to Red Turbo) and 5 in Super Sentai World (Five Red to Ninja Red).
 * This is the only post-Bioman series where the full name of the team is not pronounced with the title. Instead, the opening title is contained in the opening lyrics of the theme, where they are only called the "Kakuranger" (more akin to pre-Bioman series Goggle V and Dynaman). This would not be done again until Go-Busters.
 * The decision to make Kakuranger a Japanese/ninja themed season was intentional, to converse the Chinese-theme of previous series Dairanger.
 * Kakuranger is the third longest season after Gorenger and Changeman, done intentionally so the next season, an anniversary one, would premiere in March.
 * Kakuranger is the only Sentai to stagger the introduction of the main team. Unlike other seasons which introduce all of the main members of a team in the very first episode even if they don't gain or use powers for the first time (such as Jetman and Go-Onger), only three of the five Kakuranger physically appear in the very first episode, with the fourth appearing in the second and the fifth, and thus the entire team, only coming together in the third episode.