Battle Hawk

For other uses, see Battlehawk (disambiguation).

Battle Hawk (バトルホーク, Batoru Hōku) is a Japanese tokusatsu television series created by Go Nagai and Ken Ishikawa and produced by Toyo Agency, Dynamic Productions and KNOCK in 1976. It was originally aired on Mondays, from 19:30 to 20:00 in Tokyo Channel 12 between October 1976 to March 1977. A manga series was also created, featuring a different story and serialized in the magazine Boken Oh (Akita Shoten).

Battle Hawk
Cover of the first DVD volume of Battle Hawk, from the DVD-Box distributed in Japan by the company Only Hearts.
Genre	Tokusatsu, Action
Created by	Go Nagai Ken Ishikawa
Written by	Yasutaka Nagai Masaki Tsuji Tsunehisa Ito Susumu Yoshida Hiroyuki Koromohi Shu Komoro
Directed by	Takeshi Yamada Takashi Nagano Keinosuke Tsuchiya Yonosuke Koike
Starring	Kazuya Tokimoto Shinsuke Horie Mimi Fukada Ryohei Uchida Yutaka Ichimitsu Eiichi Kikuchi
Voices of	Minoru Midorikawa
Narrated by	Michihiro Ikemizu
Theme music composer	Akihiro Komori
Opening theme	Okore Yusha yo Battle Hawk
Ending theme	Seigi no Toshi Battle Hawk
Composer	Akihiro Komori
Country of origin	Japan
Original language	Japanese
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	26
Production
Producers	Nobuyuki Oguma Michio Shinohara
Cinematography	Isao Yonezawa
Editor	Minoru Kozono
Running time	22-26 minutes
Original release
Network	Tokyo Channel 12 (now TV Tokyo)
Release	October 4, 1976 (1976-10-04) – March 28, 1977 (1977-03-28)

External links

• Battle Hawk at Japan Hero Encyclopedia
• (in Japanese) Battle Hawk at allcinema
• (in Italian) Battle Hawk (manga) at D/visual
• (in Japanese) Battle Hawk & Aztecaser (manga) at The World of Go Nagai webpage