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Kenji Ohba, original Space Sheriff Gavan, has died

tvMay 7, 202627258

Kenji Ohba died on May 6; he was the original Space Sheriff Gavan and played multiple Super Sentai characters across a decades-long tokusatsu career. He began as a suit actor and stunt performer and became famous for doing his own high-risk stunts, including dramatic flips onto concrete and extended on-screen fights featured in the Gavan transformation sequence. Ohba's athletic, actor-driven fight style pushed tokusatsu action forward and helped keep the Gavan name prominent enough to inspire recent continuations such as Gavan Infinity, making his work a touchstone for the genre.

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