The BEST episodes directed by Shojiro Nakazawa

#1 - Gonna Be the Strongest Ever

Super Sentai - Season 42 - Episode 25

Both teams find they have to work together in order to combat a Status Gold.

#2 - A Big Pinch! I Can't Transform!!

Super Sentai - Season 43 - Episode 18

After battling a Minusaur that is able to stop the Ryusoulger from transforming, Bamba slices a stone in half that Canalo was trying to protect.

#3 - The Secret of the Collection

Super Sentai - Season 42 - Episode 18

The Lupinrangers begin to question Good Striker's true allegience.

#4 - The Spell's Gaze

Super Sentai - Season 43 - Episode 3

Asuna and Melto find their Kishiryu, but Melto's does not respond to him; two new Ryusoulger appear and threaten to kill Ui as a way to stop the new Minusaur.

#5 - The Man Who Came Back

Super Sentai - Season 42 - Episode 43

Noël is suspected of being a spy for the Ganglars, as the former Patren 2gou returns to Japan.

#6 - The Collection from Space

Super Sentai - Season 42 - Episode 38

Both the Lupinrangers and the Patrangers attempt to acquire a piece of the Lupin Collection that's in outer space.

#7 - Forbidden Relationship

Super Sentai - Season 42 - Episode 4

The Patrangers investigate closed-room disappearances, with Tsukasa having to confront her secret love.

#8 - To See Them Again

Super Sentai - Season 42 - Episode 9

Umika is excited that a famous French jewelry designer is visiting Japan, but it seems that her necklace may actually be a part of the Lupin Collection.

#9 - Looking Forward to Christmas

Super Sentai - Season 42 - Episode 45

In the run up to Christmas, a Ganglar has decided to remove all chicken in Japan, and let salmon reign supreme.

#10 - Operation: Catch That Inves!

Kamen Rider - Season 24 - Episode 9

Kouta and Mitsuzane must hunt down a fully manifested Inves that is randomly attacking people in the city while also dealing with keeping up their Beat Rider ranking.

#11 - At the Promised Place

Kamen Rider - Season 31 - Episode 12

Rintarou is dealing with injuries from his prior battle and Ryou is worried that Kento is going to do something stupid.

#12 - Lightning Causes a Commotion, the Clouds Darken

Kamen Rider - Season 31 - Episode 11

Kento is determined to find Calibur and find out what happened to his father.

#13 - A Fixed Destiny

Kamen Rider - Season 27 - Episode 13

With the Bugster infection spreading rapidly, the authorities can’t hide the disease from the public anymore. After Kiriya’s death, Kuroto starts targeting the other Kamen Riders for their Gashats, but Parad approaches Emu, offering him a blank double Gashat which will allows him to attain a new level of power…

#14 - We're Kamen Riders!

Kamen Rider - Season 27 - Episode 14

Wanting to save Dr. Shirakawa, Emu asks Hiiro to perform a surgery on his cancer. He has his Gashat back and faces the Bugster to also cure Shirakawa’s game illness. Will the surgery succeed? What will happen to Ex-Aid?! And what of his new split form?

#15 - Men, Fly High!

Kamen Rider - Season 27 - Episode 8

Taiga manages to capture the Bugster which escaped during the last battle and obtains the Jet Combat Gashat, holding the Bugster, and thus the patient, hostage in exchange for the other Riders’ Gashats. When they arrive to challenge him, he decides only he is needed to fight the Bugster, and tries to destroy Ex-Aid and Brave.

#16 - The Deep Secret of Some Lie

Kamen Rider - Season 27 - Episode 7

A hospitalized patient showing two symptoms of the game illness has appeared. Emu and Hiiro transform and succeed in separating the two Bugsters from the patient. But the Black Ex-Aid appears once again to interfere, letting the Bugsters escape. Kiriya appears before Emu to offer his help stopping the 5th Rider. An irritated Hiiro declines, since he feels Kiriya can’t be trusted. However, after the Bugsters appear again, Kiriya repeats his proposal to Emu.

#17 - Because of That Opened Book

Kamen Rider - Season 31 - Episode 4

Ryou wonders why Touma is so obsessed with keeping promises as they try to figure out how to save Sora.

#18 - A New Game Begins!

Kamen Rider - Season 27 - Episode 25

After Poppy’s sudden disappearance, Emu has been worried, but when a huge number of emergency calls come in, Emu and Hiiro are introduced to the next stage of the Bugsters’ plans, Kamen Rider Chronicle…

#19 - The Show Must Go On

Super Sentai - Season 42 - Episode 11

Things start to go wrong for the Patrangers when a Ganglar shows up and swaps their genders!

#20 - Punishment for Disobeying Orders

Super Sentai - Season 42 - Episode 19

Sakuya is fired from the Patrangers when he acts up at Jurer. But is there more to it than there seems?

#21 - The Place You Call Home

Super Sentai - Season 42 - Episode 37

Facing a Ganglar that can teleport people back to their homes, Keiichiro begins living in a portable tent.

#22 - A Promise to Return Alive

Super Sentai - Season 42 - Episode 24

The Lupinrangers investigate reports of a magical lucky pendant.

#23 - No Thank You to a Second Genius?

Kamen Rider - Season 27 - Episode 2

Becoming Kamen Rider Ex-Aid, Emu now must serve as both a pediatrician and a member of CR. A gifted surgeon named Hiiro Kagami comes back from the United States and is not only the son of the director, he’s also Kamen Rider Brave. This results in a clash of ethics when it comes to dealing with patients.

#24 - I'm a Kamen Rider!

Kamen Rider - Season 27 - Episode 1

Emu, a clumsy pediatrics intern takes young Sota, who is suffering a mysterious illness, to the announcement event of the latest "Mighty Action X", Sota's favorite game. Emu became a medical doctor in order to save someone's life because his life had been saved once through surgery. However, a mysterious virus emerges from Sota's body and the event turns into chaos. Emu hears from Asuna, an employee of the Ministry of Health, that transforming into a Kamen Rider can save the patient. Emu takes on this "operation" and inserts the Mighty Action X Gashat into the Gamer Driver, transforming into Kamen Rider Ex-Aid!

#25 - The Stolen Belt

Kamen Rider - Season 23 - Episode 28

Kousuke meets an archeologist who has discovered artifacts, one of which is a ring that looks like Chimera. However, the BeastDriver is suddenly stolen. To make things worse, Gremlin and a new Phantom appear to defeat the wizards.

#26 - A Wild Present

Super Sentai - Season 40 - Episode 6

With Yamato using Larry's Zyuman power, Larry begins to age rapidly, threatening his life. Elsewhere, Azarudo discovers Gaburio is still alive, but has gone missing. The Zyuohgers track him down, again, but find someone looking entirely different.

#27 - Monarch of the Jungle

Super Sentai - Season 40 - Episode 5

The Deathgalien’s newest player, Gaburio, has appeared. The Zyuohgers appear but he escapes. While chasing him, they encounter Larry, a gorilla Zyuman living in the mountains who is very happy to see fellow Zyumen again, but the moment he sees Yamato, he runs in fear. Meanwhile, Deathgalien team leader Azarudo has come personally, and his power is incomparably higher than that of the players.

#28 - Station 11: The Emperor of Darkness

Super Sentai - Season 38 - Episode 11

While the ToQgers enjoy a day out at an amusement park, Right meets a young man with balloons who seems odd. Baron Nero leads an offensive against them in order to welcome the Emperor of Darkness onto the Shadow Line, and also has a particular interest in the man with the balloons.

#29 - The Short-Nosed Elephant

Super Sentai - Season 40 - Episode 12

#30 - Station 12: The Rainbow Commuter Pass

Super Sentai - Season 38 - Episode 12

The other ToQgers can no longer see the Ressha and are seemingly devoid of their Imagination. Right tries to get through to them, but Lamp Shadow reveals to him that Z has hypnotized all of them to forget their time on the Rainbow Line. Right must figure out how to get them back to normal, while also dealing with new memories of their childhood home.

#31 - Monarch of the World

Super Sentai - Season 40 - Episode 20

Misao is feeling down because of the Zyumen he absorbed and won't let himself fight alongside the other Zyuohgers. Meanwhile, DeathGalien captures the Zyuman members of the team in order to lure out TheWorld.

#32 - We'll Definitely Get Them Back

Super Sentai - Season 42 - Episode 3

Touma is uneasy, wanting to rush into things with the police and get caught. Kairi, meanwhile, sends the Patrangers into a Ganglar trap.

#33 - Station 17: The Sky After the Rain

Super Sentai - Season 38 - Episode 17

The Conductor reveals that he has commissioned the transformation items for the sixth ToQger, and a Rainbow Line maintenance worker named Zaram, a former member of the Shadow Line, has not been chosen to be ToQ 6gou.

#34 - It's Not Over Yet

Super Sentai - Season 42 - Episode 10

With the Collection piece seemingly having been destroyed, it seems all hope is lost for the Lupinrangers. But a glimmer of hope may still remain...

#35 - Truth Discovered

Super Sentai - Season 42 - Episode 44

The Lupinrangers learn the truth about Noël, and the Lupin family.

#36 - Station 18: And What Do We Call You?

Super Sentai - Season 38 - Episode 18

Although Zaram has left the Shadow Line and has become ToQ 6gou, he does not wish to remain with the ToQgers. When Ring Shadow traps people by putting rings with their names on their heads, Zaram, who should have eschewed his old Shadow name, must find a way to help the ToQgers and escape his former shackles as a Shadow.

#37 - Dragon and Tiger!! Fastest Battle

Super Sentai - Season 43 - Episode 4

Towa and Bamba are looking for their Kishiryu when Koh offers to help, but Towa wants a duel instead; the others encounter a minusaur that can turn its victims asleep.

#38 - The Captive Tough Guy

Super Sentai - Season 43 - Episode 17

Canalo is tricked and Mosa Rex is kidnapped by the Druidon.

#39 - Station 23: Holding Hands

Super Sentai - Season 38 - Episode 23

#40 - The Bizarre Machine World!!

Super Sentai - Season 45 - Episode 1

Robots from a parallel world have trapped multiple worlds into tiny mechanisms and transported the beings from Kikaitopia to a human world.

#41 - The Troublesome Growling Beast!

Super Sentai - Season 45 - Episode 2

Kaito and Zyuran set out to find more members to join their sentai.

#42 - Station 24: Making It Past the Junction

Super Sentai - Season 38 - Episode 24

#43 - The Pleasantly Thrilling, World Famous Pirates!

Super Sentai - Season 45 - Episode 9

After seeing him in action, the Zenkaiger invite Twokaizer to the shop for a meal and end up getting robbed!

#44 - A Blue Sky, Day or Night!

Super Sentai - Season 45 - Episode 10

A monster appears that has the ability to keep the entire world at noon for eternity.

#45 - Station 31: Hyper Ressha Terminal

Super Sentai - Season 38 - Episode 31

#46 - Surprise! We're Going Retro!

Super Sentai - Season 45 - Episode 15

A new kid shows up at the shop when a monster decides to turn everything in town retro!

#47 - Cut It Out Magnet, I'm At My Limit!

Super Sentai - Season 45 - Episode 16

All of the sudden both Kikainoids and humans start becoming magnetized; Kaito finds Stacy visiting the cafe.

#48 - Station 32: Determination

Super Sentai - Season 38 - Episode 32

#49 - Remodeled Prince and the Dark Surgeon

Super Sentai - Season 45 - Episode 26

Stacy has been remodeled by the Tojitendo; Kaito learns that his mother is alive and has escaped her prison.

#50 - The Great Voyage Through the Seven Worlds!

Super Sentai - Season 45 - Episode 27

After Kaito learns that his mother has escaped from the Tojitendo, he asks Zocks to help him search the different worlds for her.