Koichi Sakamoto

Koichi Sakamoto has worked for both Super Sentai and Power Rangers, along with Kamen Rider.

He worked to become a stunt performer for Blue Mask on Hikari Sentai Maskman at live stunt shows, performing at Kōrakuen Stadium and Tokyo Dome. He came to the United States in 1989 as a foreign student to learn English and became a stunt actor.Sakamoto had also formed Alpha Stunts Production and was enlisted as 2nd Unit Director for the "battle grid" scenes from VR Troopers. This led him to eventually replacing Jeff Pruitt as stunt director for the third season of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Sakamoto would then go on to become the 2nd Unit Director for the remainder of the Power Rangers series, eventually filling the roles of Producer, Executive Producer, even completing the final storyboard for "Countdown to Destruction", the two-part series finale episode of Power Rangers: In Space (originally drafted to be three episodes). He also made an appearance as Tritor (uncredited) in the 2-part Power Rangers: Zeo episode, "King For a Day" (he only moved his lips, however, while character voice over work was performed by an uncredited Paul St. Peter). He went onto marry stuntwoman and suit actor Motoko Nagino in 2002 (who he asked for the White Wild Force Ranger to resemble his wife in order to match stunts). Sakamoto became one of the few original crew members from MMPR Productions to remain with the production following its move to New Zealand in 2003. He stayed all the way to RPM's last day. He is responsible for the explosions, that are mistakenly referred to as 'Kalishplosions." He returned to Japan and coordinated some stunts for Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger and will be directing the upcoming series Kamen Rider Fourze.