Brave Storm (ブレイブストーム, Bureibu Sutōmu) is a Japanese tokusatsu movie released on November 10, 2017, released in two types, 2D and MX4D. It is a reboot movie of the two showa era tokusatsu series Silver Kamen and Super Robot Red Baron produced in the 1970s by Senkosha, reconfigured as crossover.
Plot[]
In the year 2050 mankind is extinct on Earth. An alien known as the Killgis used the giant robot Black Baron to alter the atmosphere to be like his native world's. The last survivors, five Kasuga siblings, plan to use a time machine and exterminate the Killgis before his plans come to fruition. Three of them travel back in time to 2013 with the design data of the Killgis's giant robot Black Baron and their three powers: a device for identifying aliens, psychic powers, and the Silver Mask powered suit. When the siblings arrive at the past, they contact roboticist Kenichiro Kurenai and start to build a giant robot Red Baron based on improvements on the Black Baron design. Kenichiro cooperates in the manufacture of the robot on one condition, helping him keep a childhood promise to his younger brother, Ken Kurenai. Despite Ken's wish to have nothing to do with this, the selfish pit-fighter gets embroiled in a fierce battle over the survival of Earth as the pilot of Red Baron.
An Alien vs Reinforced Humans - A Giant Robot vs a Giant Robot - A fierce battle starts in Tokyo.
Characters[]
Heroes[]
| Silver | Koji Kasuga |
| Red Baron | Ken Kurenai (Red Baron's Pilot) |
Allies[]
Silver Kamen[]
- Haruka Kasuga (春日 はるか Kasuga Haruka): The second daughter of the Kasuga brothers. 22 years old. Has psychic abilities such as teleportation and telepathy, and is skilled at sword fighting.
- Kozo Kasuga (春日 光三 Kasuga Kōzō): The third son of the Kasuga brothers. 26 years old. He uses a glasses-type device that can detect the disguise of aliens, and helps maintain and improve the Silver Suit.
- Koichi Kasuga (春日 光一 Kasuga Kōichi): The eldest son of the Kasuga brothers. 36 years old. He is a developer of the "retrograde machine" time tunnel and the Silver Suit.
- Hitomi Kasuga (春日 ひとみ Kasuga Hitomi): The eldest daughter of the Kasuga brothers. 28 years old. She aids in the development and operation of the retrograde machine, and remains in 2050 with Koichi.
Red Baron[]
- Ken'ichiro Kurenai (紅 健一郎 Kurenai Ken'ichirō): Ken Kurenai's brother, a robotics engineer. 36 years old. After listening to Kasugas' requests, he built the giant robot Red Baron in five years.
- Shu (シュウ Shū): Ken Kurenai's fellow at the boxing gym.
- Trainer (トレーナー Torēnā): Trainer at the boxing gym to which Ken Kurenai belongs.
Villains[]
- Alien Kyrgyz (キルギス星人 Kirugisu Hoshibito): An alien who intends to invade the earth. The Earth's environment will be modified in the same way as the Kyrgyz star, and plan of mass migration (of their species) after the destruction of humanity. (subtitled as Killgis in the U.S. release)
- Alien Tigris (チグリス星人 Chigurisu Seijin): Bio-engineered servitors of the Alien Kyrgyz. Mass-produced in a capsules, they appear human to any not using the special glasses carried by Kozo Kasuga.
- Borg (ボーグ Bōgu): Cyborg lieutenant of the Kyrgyz Alien. Armed with a destructive ray gun built on the left arm and long blade on the right arm. He directly oversees Tigris operations.
| Black Baron |
Others[]
| Iron King | Goro Kirishima |
- Gentaro Shizuka (静弦太郎 Shizuka Gentarō)
Cast[]
- Koji Kasuga: Shunsuke Daitou
- Ken Kurenai: Shu Watanabe
- Hitomi Kasuga: Mitsu Dan
- Shu: Tom Fujita
- Shigeru Izumiya
- Koichi Kasuga
- Borg: Yuki Matsuzaki
- Kozo Kasuga: Soran Tamoto
- Gentaro Shizuka: Yasufumi Terawaki
- Haruka Kasuga: Chihiro Yamamoto
- Kenichiro Kurenai: Hisashi Yoshizawa
Notes[]
- Goro Kirishima, the title hero of the 1972 tokusatsu Iron King, was shown at the end of the movie warning of the arrival of the Shiranui, foreshadowing a future crossover of more Senkosha heroes.
- The subtitles of the U.S. release have the time travelers arriving in 2013, contradicting other sources which place their arrival in 2015.
- There is only one Killgis alien active, all other antagonists are human-mimicking artificial lifeforms or robots. It is implied that once his job of altering Earth is complete, the rest of his people will travel to Earth.
- While the siblings are convinced that time travel will not change their own timeline and merely split off an alternate timeline, later events suggest (but do not prove) that they were incorrect.