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is a 2018 Japanese superhero film, serving as the film adaptation of the 2017-2018 television series 'Kamen Rider Build', taking place between Episodes 45 and 46 of the TV series and featuring the debut of 'Kamen Rider Zi-O's titular protagonist.

Plot



Following the civil war's conclusion, Japan's new city-state governors promise a new age of prosperity on their inauguration day. But the new Touto governor Kengo In rallies anti-Kamen Rider sentiment with the populace hypnotized into seeing Sento Kiry as an enemy of the state. The mob chase down Sento as Kamen Rider Build after he saved a boy and his older sister to a stadium, an unaffected Kazumi Sawatari and Gentoku Himuro covering his escape before their capture by the new Hokuto governor Ryka Saiga as the Scissors Lost Smash. After subduing Misora and Sawa once reaching Nascita, Sento attempts to call Ryga Banj who was abducted by the new Seito governor Mitsuomi Gbara, provoking him into a fight after transforming into the Zebra Lost Smash while revealing himself to be responsible for Kasumi Ogura's death. The fight ends when In arrives, with Gbara infecting a distracted Ryga.

Sento hacks into a government facility's database to confirm the new governors as Soichi's Kiwami Project teammates before being confronted by In. In explains he and the other governors are actually members of the Blood Race like Evolt and served as his co-conspirators in manipulating various events as part of their goal of destroying Earth. But Evolt's deviation from their plan forced the governors' hand with their Build Annihilation Plan, a brainwashed Ryga attacking Sento as Kamen Rider Cross-Z. As Build is defeated, In reveals the populace truly consider Kamen Riders as reminders of the civil war's horrors. Ryga then gives Sento's Hazard Trigger to In, using it with his Cobra Lost Fullbottle and Ryga's Great Cross-Z Dragon to become Kamen Rider Blood while absorbing his kin and Ryga as Evolto carries the unconscious Sento away.

Once in a safe place, Sento wakes up from a dream of Takumi Katsuragi's memories of the Skywall Disaster where his father Shinobu told him that Ryga is their ace against the aliens. Evolto belittles Sento while explaining that In only needs to Pandora Box to destroy the world, with a despondent Sento walking off before he receives a call from In offering to trade Ryga for the Pandora Box. Sento engages Takumi in a metaphysical debate, his previous self lamenting over failing to honor his father's request as the aliens perverted his research for their schemes. But Sento counters that Project Build allowed them to protect their friends while adamant that Ryga is essential to Evolto's defeat.

The next day, Sento brings the Pandora Box to the governors with In going back on his word while challenging Sento to take Ryga back by force. Sento accepts as he turns into Build Genius, remaining determined in the losing battle before using the Gold Rabbit Fullbottle's power to extract Ryga from Blood alongside Blood's kinsmen. Blood ignores the setback while combining the Hazard Trigger with the Pandora Box to destroy the planet at its core. With Kazumi and Gentoku battling Blood's kinsmen after Nariaki Utsumi eventually freed them, Sento notices a restored Ryga's Silver Dragon Fullbottle and deduces their Fullbottles together can destroy Evolt and his kinsmen. Vernage intervenes to restore Misora and Sawa before merging the two Fullbottles with the Genius Fullbottle into the Cross-ZBuild Can, with Sento unintentionally merging himself and Ryuga into Kamen Rider Cross-ZBuild.

Cross-ZBuild forces Blood back to the surface while Kamen Riders Grease and Rouge destroy the Zebra and Scissors Lost Smash, explaining that Kamen Riders's drive fight for those who can build the future with the alien's death restoring the populace while Evolto gloats over his treacherous subordinates' deserved demise. After the Cross-ZBuild Can defused back into its components, the group are still dismayed at the continued anti-Kamen Rider sentiment though Sento is not bothered as long as those who can build the future after being thanked by the boy he saved earlier.

Sometime later, Sento is researching a means to reproduce a similar combination like Cross-ZBuild to defeat Evolto when he is teleported by the white Pandora panel to a battle between various Kamen Riders and their respective enemies. The monsters are then destroyed by a mysterious Kamen Rider equipping himself with the Build Armor, introducing himself to Sento as the apparent demon king Kamen Rider Zi-O.

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*Sclash Driver, Crocodile Crack Fullbottle, Cross-Z Magma Knuckle, and Great Cross-Z Dragon Voices:

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Production



The film was initially planned to be a zombie film, but was changed after concerns it will be seen as a horror film, thus scaring away audiences.

It was initially planned for all 3 members of the "Blood Tribe" that appeared in the film to become Kamen Riders, but due to budget constraints, it was changed to just the leader.

Theme song

*"Everlasting Sky"

**Lyrics: Shko Fujibayashi

**Composition: Hidehiro Kawai

**Arrangement: Keiichi Tomita

**Artist: Beverly

Release



It was released in Japan on August 4, 2018, in a double billing with 'Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger en Film'.

DVD and Blu-ray was released on January 9, 2019.

Reception



' Kamen Rider Build the Movie: Be the One' grossed $4,888,000 at the box office.

References




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