Super Hero Taisen (スーパーヒーロー大戦, Supā Hīrō Taisen, Super Hero War) is a tokusatsu superhero film series that serves as crossovers between Toei Company's superhero productions.

Super Hero Taisen
Japanese name
Kanjiスーパーヒーロー大戦
Transcriptions
Revised HepburnSupā Hīrō Taisen
Written byShōji Yonemura
Production
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Distributed byToei Company
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

In the run-up to the first film, producer Shinichiro Shirakura said he would like to make this type of movie the norm for spring films.

Currently all five movies have been written by Shoji Yonemura. For the directors, the first two films are directed by Osamu Kaneda, the third and fourth were directed by Takayuki Shibasaki and the fifth was again directed by Osamu Kaneda.

Following the production of short films named "Net Movies" to accompany the release of OOO, Den-O, All Riders: Let's Go Kamen Riders on 2011, both Super Hero Taisen and Super Hero Taisen Z had their own series of Net Movies, Super Hero Taihen: Who Is the Culprit? and Super Hero Taisen Otsu!: Heroo! Answers respectively. While a tradition for the Kamen Rider summer movies since Kamen Rider Kiva, these Net Movies featured a new chance for Super Sentai characters to participate following their own attempt at Engine Sentai Go-onger: Boom Boom! Bang Bang! GekijōBang!! alongside Kiva failing to start the tradition for their own summer movies. However, Net Movies were not made to accompany any movie, starting with Kamen Rider Taisen.

Since their beginning, the franchise releases a film, at the very most, two weeks after their magical girl counterpart Pretty Cure All Stars.

Films

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Film Release date Director Writer Status
Kamen Rider × Super Sentai: Super Hero Taisen April 21, 2012 Osamu Kaneda Shōji Yonemura Released
Kamen Rider × Super Sentai × Space Sheriff: Super Hero Taisen Z April 27, 2013
Heisei Rider vs. Shōwa Rider: Kamen Rider Taisen feat. Super Sentai March 29, 2014 Takayuki Shibasaki
Super Hero Taisen GP: Kamen Rider 3 March 21, 2015
Kamen Rider × Super Sentai: Ultra Super Hero Taisen March 25, 2017 Osamu Kaneda

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