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Hanuman and the Five Riders
(?????? ?? 5 ???????? -
Hanuman pob Har Aimoddaeng
- literally "Hanuman meet the Five Ant Men") is a
tokusatsu
superhero
film produced in 1975 by Chaiyo Productions of
Thailand
, founded by
Sompote Sands
. Chaiyo's own
Kamen Rider
film, half of it uses footage from the
Kamen Rider X
film
Five Riders Vs. King Dark
. The rest of the footage was made by Chaiyo themselves who even re-created the Kamen Rider costumes for some of the scenes in the film, most notably when they interact with Hanuman himself.
Although it has never been released in Japan, Kamen Rider fans in Japan refer to it unofficially as
Hanuman and the 5 Kamen Riders
(
ハヌマ?ンと5人の?面ライダ?
,
Hanum?n to Gonin no Kamen Raid?
)
and was presented as sequel to
Hanuman vs. 7 Ultraman
.
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The film teams the first five Kamen Riders (Ichigo, Nigo, V3, Riderman and X) with the Hindu god
Hanuman
(fresh from his appearance in
The 6 Ultra Brothers vs. the Monster Army
) against X's adversary King Dark (who appears in his regular giant moving statue form, and alternately in a human-sized form), who drinks the fresh blood of young women. He captures a scientist and his girlfriend, and threatens to drain her of her blood unless he use his technology to create an army of mutant animal men to confront the five Riders.
Unlike Chaiyo's two official co-productions with
Tsuburaya Productions
in 1974 (namely
The 6 Ultra Brothers Vs. the Monster Army
and
Jumborg Ace & Giant
), this production was unauthorized by
Toei Company, Ltd.
, which produced the Kamen Rider shows. Chaiyo had initially approached Toei, who turned down their plans for producing their own Kamen Rider movie. So without Toei or
Ishinomori Productions
' consent, they went ahead and made the movie regardless.
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