 This article is about an episode in Denshi Sentai Denziman.
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The Tiger's Cave Has a Saboteur (虎の穴は逃走迷路 Tora no Ana wa Tōsō Meiro) is the twenty-fifth episode of Denshi Sentai Denziman.
Synopsis[]
A Vader Monster possesses a shy girl interested in Jun, opening her up while forcing her to lead him to the Denziman's whereabouts.
Plot[]
Jun goes to vegetable shop and gets greeted by the owner and his daughter, Reiko. Jun's intention is to check the shop's scale, afraid that it is broken. As he is trying to fix the scale, he does not know that Ippei and Tatsuya is observing him. The two tslks about Jun not knowing Reiko's feelings. After he concludes that the scale is fine, Jun puts the potatoes he bought earlier on it. The result shows the potatoes are 300 grams heavier than he intended to buy: 3 kilograms. He would like to return the leftover, but the owner refuses. He insists, only to the owner complimenting him as a rare case of honest youngster. As he wonders why does he get the more than what he paid, the owner considers this as a service from Reiko and the extra 300 grams is free to him. As Jun leaves, Ippei and Tatsuya confront him and take him further, realizing him that the service was given by the shopkeeper's daughter, Reiko. Jun does not have any idea, even when his teammates says that the Reiko girl has an interest of him.
Meanwhile, General Hedrer has an idea by manifesting Reiko as DenziYellow's lover to kill him, by getting her as his captive. When Queen Hedrian gives an approve of the idea, she orders the general to deploy Medamalar.
On a street, Reiko confronts a fortune telling stand. The fortune teller tells Reiko that she needs to be a more outgoing person. The fortune teller then bring her somewhere, unknowingly to Reiko that Keller was in the fortune telling stand before vanishing. The fortune teller orders Reiko to have a speech training in front of a mirror. As the fortune teller leaves and she has to undergo speech training by herself, a manifestation of eyeball appears in front of her and a clone of her possess her. After that, Keller and Mirror are seen in the mirror, pleased that the plan is going well.
Jun is almost late in a date with Reiko. As he rushes somewhere, he finds Reiko. Shockingly, her personality changes from a shy girl into an outgoing girl. She compliments Jun by getting in time, before inviting him into a theatre. Unknowingly to Jun, the same eyeball is staring at him. There, Jun and Reiko watch Torakku Yarō. Reiko shows her romantic side by laying her head into Jun's shoulder and holding his hand. When the eyeball appears again, Reiko is panicked, which is adress by Jun as hungry. He offers some senbei, with Reiko takes one. As he takes another one and eats it noisily, a man sitting on a seat in front of him punches him on his face.
Jun's bruise on his left eye is being treaten by the other Denzimen. He gets scolded by Akira for bringing noisy snack in a theatre. He also gets teased by Daigoro that he should bring anpan instead. Jun wonders that Reiko is being different.
Meanwhile, Queen Hedrian scolds General Hedrer for taking so much time. The general apologises and promises that Jun will be killed.
The next day, Jun is invited into a discotheque, wondering that Reiko would like this place. As he enters the dance hall, he surprisingly see Reiko dancing in a crowd! Reiko drags Jun to dance with her, despite Jun's refusal. As he cannot take it anymore, he leaves the discotheque, making her worry and the eyeball comes again. While running on a street, he encounters Reiko again, explaining that she is not Reiko. Reiko he knows is a quiet girl who talks less. This makes this Reiko heartbroken as he pushes her before he leaves. The real Reiko can be seen begging for Jun's help. Shortly after, the eyeball takes Reiko's clone from the real one.
Jun walks out again when the Reiko clone and the eyeball encounters him. He changes into DenziYellow only to assume that Reiko he sees is a phantom or an illusion as she disappears. He the tries to punch the eyeball using Denzi Scope, but alas, it is just an illusion.
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Cast[]
- Ippei Akagi (赤城 一平 Akagi Ippei): Shinichi Yuuki (結城 真一 Yūki Shin'ichi)
- Daigoro Oume (青梅 大五郎 Ōme Daigorō): Kenji Ohba (大葉 健二 Ōba Kenji)
- Jun Kiyama (黄山 純 Kiyama Jun): Eiichi Tsuyama (津山 栄一 Tsuyama Eiichi)
- Tatsuya Midorikawa (緑川 達也 Midorikawa Tatsuya): Naoya Uchida (内田 直哉 Uchida Naoya)
- Akira Momoi (桃井 あきら Momoi Akira): Akira Koizumi (小泉 あきら Koizumi Akira)
- Queen Hedrian (ヘドリアン女王 Hedorian Joō): Machiko Soga (曽我 町子 Soga Machiko)
- Denzi Dog IC (デンジ犬アイシー Denji Inu Aishī, Voice): Hisako Kyōda (京田 尚子 Kyōda Hisako)
- Denzi Computer (Voice): Takeshi Watabe (渡部 猛 Watabe Takeshi)
- General Hedrer (ヘドラー将軍 Hedorā Shōgun): Shinji Tōdō (藤堂 新二 Tōdō Shinji)
- Mirror (ミラー Mirā): Rie Yoshikawa (美川 利恵 Yoshikawa Rie)
- Keller (ケラー Kerā): Chiaki Kojo (湖条 千秋 Kojō Chiaki)
Guest Cast[]
- Medamalar (メダマラー Medamarā, Voice): Shozo Iizuka (飯塚 昭三 Iizuka Shōzō)
- Reiko: Izumi Ooyama (大山 いづみ Ōyama Idumi)
- Reiko's father: Gozo Soma (相馬 剛三 Sōma Gōzō)
- Customer: Shigeru Aso (麻生 茂 Asō Shigeru)
Notes[]
- Viewership: 10.1%
- The title of the episode includes an expression tōsō meiro, which translates literally as "maze of escape", in reference to the Japanese name for the 1942 Alfred Hitchcock film Saboteur.
- The movie attended by Jun on his date is one of the Torakku Yarō series, created by Toei between 1975 and 1979.
DVD releases[]
- Denshi Sentai Denziman DVD Volume 3 features episodes 19-27.
- Denshi Sentai Denziman DVD-Collection Volume 2 features episodes 23-51.
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