Amikiri (アミキリ, Amikiri) is a monster of the week in the 1994 tokusatsu TV series Ninja Sentai Kakuranger, which was the 18th entry in the Super Sentai franchise. After making cameos in several early episodes and the Kakuranger movie, she makes her appearance in episode 17, "The Demon Sword and Underwear!!". She was portrayed by Ami Kawai, who previously played Marsha and Lamie (Scorpina).
A bladed Youkai, Amikiri had lost an arm in a duel against the legendary ninja Kirigakure Saizou centuries prior. Returning with the other Youkai in the present day, she swore a vendetta on the new Saizou. She had her lost arm replaced with a bladed prosthesis, which she used by launching the blade on it like a missile.
While posing as an attractive swords-woman in red, with a black gloved prosthetic arm, she attacked Saizou in their first meeting, cutting his SUV and clothes to pieces before revealing her true form. Amikiri obtained a boy named Toro as a hostage to force Saizou to fight her. Amikiri overpowered Saizou at first, but Toro's photos gave the gang an edge of knowing a flaw in her prosthesis arm. She and NinjaBlue dueled at sunset, with NinjaBlue focusing on her using his square-cut technique to finish her off. When Amikiri grew, she was still bent on vengeance. The Kakurangers immediately formed Muteki Shogun to destroy her with the flaming sword attack. Her spirit then returned to the Youkai afterlife, the Seal Door.
Amikiri makes one last cameo in the final episode. She appears among a gathering of Youkai within the Seal Door after their master Daimaou was finally contained there by the Kakurangers. Reeling that they were now powerless in captivity, the Youkai all vowed that they would one day be reborn and regain their power, cursing humanity.
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