Kamen Rider 555

Kamen Rider 555 (officially Masked Rider Φ's, also read Kamen Rider Faiz or Phi's) is a Japanese tokusatsu television drama. It is the 13th installment in the Kamen Rider Series. It is a joint collaboration between Ishimori Productions and Toei, and was broadcast on TV Asahi from January 26, 2003, to January 18, 2004. It aired as a part of TV Asahi's 2003 Super Hero Time block, alongside Bakuryū Sentai Abaranger.

Story
The Smart Brain corporation, the world's most powerful corporation, is trying to take over the world using Orphnoch, the "next stage in humanity's evolution", to covertly kill off the human population. In pursuit of this, they develop three suits of power armor, called Rider Gears (each for Delta, Faiz, and Kaixa), to find and protect the Orphnoch King,  who can fix a defect within Orphnoch DNA which causes their genetic structure to break down, leading to death.

The Rider Gears are stolen by Hanagata, the Goat Orphnoch and former chief of Smart Brain. He sends them to his foster children (dubbed the "Ryuseiji", after the school they attended) so they can stop the Orphnoch from achieving their goal. However, Rider Gears were designed to be worn by Orphnoch, and humans are unable to activate the systems without undergoing genetic generation.

A young loner, Takumi Inui, is unwittingly drawn into the conflict between the Orphnoch and humans and becomes Kamen Rider Faiz to save the life of Mari Sonada, one of the Ryuseiji. Smart Brain begins training him in an attempt to retrieve the Faiz Gear.

However, there is division amongst the Orphnoch, as those who wish to co-exist with humans rather than kill him, begin resisting the Smart Brain, who in turn targets them as well. Most of these "renegade" Orphnochs are either killed, remain neutral or begin siding with the Ryuseiji against the Smart Brain.

When the Tokyo police discover the Orphnoch are behind a series of bizarre murders, they begin operations to defeat the creatures, largely unaware of the various factions involved. They even begin performing experiments on captured Orphnoch in an attempt to find ways of destroying them, though this does not go well.

The Orphnoch King eventually awakens within a young boy named Teruo Suzuki, whom Naoya Kaido and Keitaro Kikuchi saved and befriended. Now, it is up to the holders of the Rider Gears to band together and fight for humanity's survival.

Cast
 Takumi Inui / Kamen Rider Faiz: Kento Handa
 Mari Sonada: Yuria Haga
 Keitaro Kikuchi: Ken Mizorogi
 Yuji Kiba: Masayuki Izumi
 Yuka Osada: Yoshika Kato
 Naoya Kaido / Riotrooper: Mitsuru Karahashi
 Masato Kusaka / Kamen Rider Kaixa: Kōhei Murakami
 Shuji Mihara / Kamen Rider Delta: Atsushi Harada
 Rina Abe: Rie Kasai
 Kyoji Murakami: Katsuyuki Murai
 Kazufumi Mizuno: Kengo Ohkuchi
 Aki Sawada: Gō Ayano
 Teruo Suzuki: Kayato Watanabe
 Sawamura: Koji Iwakawa
 Hikaru Soeno: Manami Miwake
 Masahiko Minami: Atsushi Ogawa
 J: Kenneth Duria
 Itsuko Takuma: Jun Yamasaki
 Saeko Kageyama: Waka
 Kitazaki: Ray Fujita
 Smart Lady: Hitomi Kurihara
 Narration, Driver Voice: Takehiko Kano

Guest actor
 Chie Morishita (1, 2): Mika Katsumura

Paradise Lost cast
 Mina: Mei Kurokawa
 Mina (Childhood): Mirai Shida
 Mizuhara: Mocomichi Hayami
 Leo / Kamen Rider Psyga: Peter Ho
 Keitaro Kikuchi / Kamen Rider Kaixa: Ken Mizorogi
 Yuji Kiba / Kamen Rider Orga: Masayuki Izumi

Songs
 Opening theme
 "Justiφ's"
 Lyrics: Shoko Fujibayashi
 Composition: Kazuto Sato
 Arrangement: Kōtarō Nagakawa
 Artist: ISSA (of DA PUMP)
 Episodes: 2 - 49
 Insert themes
 "Dead or alive"
 Lyrics: Shoko Fujibayashi
 Composition: Katsuya Yoshida
 Arrangement: Akio Kondo
 Artist: Shinichi Ishihara
 Episodes: 2 - 20
 "The people with no name"
 Lyrics: Shoko Fujibayashi
 Rap Lyrics: m.c.A.T
 Composition: Cher Watanabe
 Arrangement: RIDER CHIPS
 Artist: RIDER CHIPS featuring m.c.A.T
 Episodes: 21 - 32, 39
 "EGO ~ eyes glazing over"
 Lyrics: Shoko Fujibayashi
 Composition & Arrangement: Cher Watanabe
 Artist: ICHIDAI (of ROLL DAYS)
 Episodes: 33 - 38, 41 - 48
 "Justiφ's -Accel Mix-"
 Lyrics: Shoko Fujibayashi
 Composition: Kazuto Sato
 Arrangement: Kazunori Miyake
 Artist: ISSA (of DA PUMP)
 Episodes: 40, Movie

Category:Japanese science fiction television series
Category:2003 Japanese television series debuts
Category:2004 television series endings
Category:Japanese-language television programs