, translated as Storm Cloud Lion Maru, was a tokusatsu

Tokusatsu

is a Japanese term that applies to any live-action film or television drama that usually features superheroes and makes considerable use of special effects ....

 series that aired in Japan

Japan

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 in 1973. It was the second series in the Lion-Maru

Lion-Maru

is a Japanese tokusatsu television franchise that began in 1972 by P Productions as Kaiketsu Lion-Maru. The basic premise of the series is that the main character has the ability to transform into a superpowered anthropomorphic lion, usually wielding a katana...

trilogy, and featured a third Maru-like character named Black Jaguar. This Lion-Maru is deemed "the Rolling Tempest Ninja Warrior." This series was popularized in Brazil as Lion Man in 1989, the only other country besides Japan to show the 25 episodes of this series.

Cast

• Shishimaru Dan: Tetsuya Ushio
• Fuun Lion-Maru: Kazuo Kamoshida
• Shinobu/Shizue (ep 17-18): Ryoko Miyano
• Sankichi: Tsunehiro Arai
• Mantle God (voice): Kiyoshi Kobayashi
  Kiyoshi Kobayashi
  is a Japanese actor, seiyū and narrator from Tokyo. He is currently attached to the Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society...
  
  
• Agdar (voice): Tōru Ōhira
  Toru Ohira
  is a male Japanese narrator and voice actor from the Tokyo Metropolitan area. He is a representative of Ōhira Production.One of his most known roles is the dub voice of Darth Vader in Star Wars...
  
  
• Yoba/Black Jaguar(2-11; 25) : Masaki Hayasaki
• Jōnosuke Tora: Yoshitaka Fukushima
• Tiger Joe, Jr.: Shingo Fukushima

External links

• Fuun Lion-Maru DVD site
• A Fuun Lion Maru fansite