Masked Fighter. Mixed Martial Arts was born in Japan.

The world's first film about the history of the creation of mixed martial arts.
Special appearance by Satoru Sayama, the first Tiger Mask, in the entire film.

Trailer

STORY

The main character is the professional wrestler Super Rider. He is a former mixed martial arts champion and the first disciple of the first Tiger Mask (Satoru Sayama).

He has two sons who are also MMA fighters, and they also fight in the ring to become champion.
The history and the secret story of how Tiger Mask, who took Japan by storm and revolutionized professional wrestling, created MMA in its early days.

How was MMA created?
The history and struggles of Super Rider's family that went along with it.

AWARD

We are submitting Masked Fighter to film festivals around the world.

【 AWARD】５ devision

Hagi Ibasho film festivals

・Best audience award

Andromeda Film Festival

・BEST DOCUMENTARY

ROSHANI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2023

・DOCUMENTARY

New York Movie Awards

・Feature Documentary

Virgin Spring Cinefest

・Documentary Films

IDEAL international film festival

・Documentary Film

【Honourable Mention】

Paris Film Awards

・Feature Documentary

【Selected】

Courtyard Independent Film Festival

・Best Documentary Feature

Anatolia International Film Festival

・Best Documentary Feature Film

RED Movie Awards

・Best Documentary MAIN CATEGORY

French International Modern Film and Script Festival

・Best Feature Documentary

King Film Awards

・Best Feature Documentary

Movie Town Online Film Festival

・Best Feature Documentary

Star International Film Festival　

・Best Feature Documentary

Black Pearl International Film Festival

・Best Feature Documentary

Tokyo Lift-Off Film Festival!

・Feature Films. Documentaries

History of the film's birth

Did you all know about the history?

Mixed martial arts, which has spread so widely worldwide, is a sport created in Japan.
And it was the first Tiger Mask Satoru Sayama and his students, the first shooters(MMA fighters), created it.

The Tiger Mask, a social phenomenon in the 1980s and revolutionized professional wrestling, and the person who created MMA are the same.

I think that is something that MMA fans are not aware of.

I wanted to leave that behind as a documentary film, which is how this film production started. In addition, there is a novel by Naoki Prize-winning author Tsuneo Tomita, wrote about the history of judo Sanshiro Sugata.

Like in this novel, the people who created the sport of mixed martial arts wanted to leave a film like 'Sanshiro Sugata' while they were still alive, and this is what they started to make.

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Director

Kenji Ogusu

Kenji Ogusu Wikipedia

I was a professional MMA fighter.

I was the first fighter in the world to compete in the professional MMA flyweight division.

Former world No. 2 in MMA Shooto
8 fights, 3 wins, 1 loss, 4 draws
Belongs to Kiguchi Dojo

And I am also a creator, so I have written 27 books and produced a lot of artwork at the same time.

In the process, I have had the opportunity to meet many interesting people.

I interviewed these people and made my interview videos, and published them.

There were contradictions, conflicts, and emotions of these people.

I realized that it is a film that can express it.

Then I became a film director and started making films.

And this is my third film.

I have won more than 50 awards at festivals around the world.

Music Director

"BASS NINJA!"
Quagero Imazawa

Bassist, Composer, Insect artist, Professor

Born: Feb 15, 1970
Genres: Jazz / Rock
Instrument: 6-string ElectricBass, Fretless Bass

Electric Bassist Quagero Imazawa was born in Ebetsu-shi Hokkaido, Japan.
The grandson of composer and radical bamboo flutist Kozan Abe, Imazawa playing the bass and studying composition in the early '80s.