Hey Guys!! Black Ranger RX (formerly known as Rising Sun Ranger) returning to Henshin Justice, because.. what an awesome thread!!
Years ago, risingsunranger uploaded a video to his YouTube account of an English dub of Kamen Rider Black RX. Don't know what country it was from though. The voice acting was atrocious. They used the same actor to play Kotaro and the monster he was fighting (it was one of those monsters we saw riding on horseback in the MMPR A Friend In Need 3 parter), and the man made no effort to differentiate his voices between them. To add to that, he couldn't voice act either - his attempts at putting emotion into the characters were impotent. It also didn't help that whoever was doing the voice of the kids (again, just one actor) thought putting on a high-pitched version of their own voice would work. It didn't!
risingsunranger also uploaded a clip from an English dub of Jetman. As I recall, the voice acting was just as atrocious.
Speaking of which, I once saw a VCD (or it might've been a DVD in a small box, I was looking at it from a distance) in a shop in Singapore of Jetman. I didn't examine the box, let alone buying it, so I don't know whether it contained the series with subtitles or a dub in another language.
As for Liveman, there were two Spanish dubs of it. One in Spain (where they dubbed over the French dub, as evidenced by their usage of the French titles and logo and Bernard Minet's song (which for some reason doesn't sound as silly in Spanish)) and another in Latin America.
The Jetman clip I uploaded onto YouTube years ago, was actually a fan-made parody dub that contained swearing, and used "Go Go Power Rangers" as it's background music. I would happily re-upload this clip for you all to enjoy but unfortunately I've lost the clip, because it was on a DVD R, I was being really clumsy and knocked over a glass of cola and got cola all over the DVD R.
There was also an AbaRanger parody dub by the same people behind the Jetman parody, but I've lost that too, because at the time I was having Windows XP re-installed. I think Keith Hayward originally uploaded both of these clips onto Japan Hero. Maybe he still has these clips and if he wanted to he could re-upload them on the internet.
The Kamen Rider Black RX clip was ripped from my friend Basri's VCD. I think it's the same dub as the one from the Philippines considering how cheesy it was. In the dub the main hero referred himself as "Black Masked Rider RX" and his Revolcane was called the "Laser Schemitar". Unfortunately along with the Jetman clip I've lost it, and if Basri wanted to he could re-rip the VCD and re-upload it, but I think Basri's busy these days.
Winspector was definitely dubbed in German. It was pretty much my first Tokusatsu (before Power Rangers) as I was lucky enough to live in Germany at the time. It was aired on RTL very early in the mornings, and to my recollection I was only lucky enough to catch about 2 episodes. I did at one time catch the very end of one episode (Biker was crying, LOL!!).
I believe a few other Tokusatsu shows/films have been brought over to Germany but none that I'm too familiar with.
I have come across this interesting thread though.. Kamen Rider briefly made it into Germany though a German dubbing of a Chinese film called "Krieg der Infras".
To my recollection the only Tokusatsu superhero film ever to make it to the UK was the Cutie Honey film starring Eriko Sato. Ultraman was shown in the UK but not as a TV show, only clips of some Ultraman shows were shown on Johnathon Ross's "Japanorama" show, and bizzarely enough also on Eurotrash, which is supposed to be a documentary series about European sex culture. I heard the the Sci Fi Channel was going to do an English dub of Ultraman Dyna but Tsuburaya cancelled the deal because Sci Fi channel wanted to change the original music and replace it with Techno beats, and Tsuburaya didn't like that.
This thread is supposed to be about dubbed Tokusatsu in the 80's but since people are also talking about Toku in other decades I thought I'd just make a list of Tokusatsu shows/films thatwere eventually dubbed/subbed in English. This includes parodies and excludes fansubs. I'm not entirely sure of all of them though, these are judging from what I've learned, what I've experience as well as from heresay.
Go Ranger
Dubbed as "Star Rangers" in the Philippines and subbed by JN Productions in Hawaii.
JAKQ
Subbed by JN Productions in Hawaii, and dubbed in the Philippines as "Lucky Aces".
Battle Fever J
Subbed by JN Productions in Hawaii.
Dynaman
Parody from Night Flight on USA Network.
Bioman
Filipino English dub.
Jetman
Half of it was dubbed in English, the rest was dubbed in Filipino.
Kamen Rider
Filipino English dub.
Kamen Rider V3
Subbed by JN Productions in Hawaii.
Kamen Rider Black RX
English dub from Philippines.
Kamen Rider Z.O.
Dubbed in English in the U.S.A as a Sega Mega CD game.
Many Heisei Kamen Rider series (such as Ryuki, Faiz, Blade, etc..)
Dubbed / Subbed in English in Singapore
Kamen Rider Kabuto
Filipino English Dub aired on Cartoon Network. Also aired in Singapore.
Masked Rider: The First
Brought over to the USA on DVD and subbed in English.
Ultraman
Dubbed in English in the USA.
Ultra Seven
Dubbed in English in the USA.
Ultraman Ace
Filipino English Dub
Ultraman Tiga
Parody Dub by 4Kids.
Ultraman Cosmos
Singaporean English Dub
Kikaida
Subbed by JN Productions in Hawaii.
Kikaida 01
Subbed by JN Productions in Hawaii.
Inazuman
Subbed by JN Productions in Hawaii.
Cutie Honey (Eriko Sato)
Dubbed in the USA. Also released in the UK on DVD but sub only).
Solbrain
Filipino English Dub.
Giant Robo
Dubbed in the USA as "Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot".
Cybercop
Rumoured Filipino English Dub.