Koichi Sakamoto Directs Original Hero Fortix for TTFC 10th Anniversary
The project is TTFC's first wholly original hero not tied to any existing Toei IP, built around a streaming-service premise that reflects the platform's own identity.
Reporting from 1 sources: Cinema Today.
Toei Tokusatsu Fan Club marks its 10th anniversary with Fortix: Haishin! Oshi o Tsugu Mono, a completely original tokusatsu work planned, directed, and action-directed by Koichi Sakamoto. The story follows three tokusatsu fans who become heroes through a streaming service motif. Fuku Suzuki, Tatsuomi Hamada, and Rena Takeda star.
Koichi Sakamoto, a veteran of Toei tokusatsu productions, is planning, directing, and handling action direction for Fortix: Haishin! Oshi o Tsugu Mono, the 10th-anniversary original work for the Toei Tokusatsu Fan Club streaming service. The hero Fortix has no physical form of its own and must inhabit a human host who embodies one of three virtues-justice, courage, or love-requiring three protagonists to form a trinity. Sakamoto said the idea came from treating TTFC not as a streaming service but as a secret organization searching for real heroes. The script is by Junichiro Ashiki, with character design by Tsuyoshi Nonaka. Fuku Suzuki, Tatsuomi Hamada, and Rena Takeda play the three leads, all of whom have prior tokusatsu credits.
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