''Hanuman and the 5 Kamen Riders'' (หนุมาน พบ 5 ไอ้มดแดง - ''Hanuman pob Har Aimoddaeng'' - literally "Hanuman meet the Five Ant Men") is a

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film produced in 1975 by Chaiyo Productions of

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, founded by

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. Chaiyo's own

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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 . The film teams the first five Kamen Riders (Ichigo, Nigo, V3, Riderman and X) with the Hindu god

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(fresh from his appearance in ''

The 6 Ultra Brothers vs. the Monster Army , known in Thailand as ''Hanuman vs. 7 Ultraman'' (หนุมาน พบ 7 ยอดมนุษย์ - ''Hanuman pob Jed Yodmanud''), is a Japanese tokusatsu superhero kaiju film produced in 1974 by Tsuburaya Productions of Japan and Chaiyo ...

'') 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

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in 1974 (namely ''The 6 Ultra Brothers Vs. the Monster Army'' and ''

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''), 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

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' consent, they went ahead and made the movie regardless.

Cast

* Ko Kaeoduendee as Koh / Hanuman * Ryo Hayami as Keisuke Jin / Kamen Rider x *

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as Takeshi Hongo / Kamen Rider 1 *

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as Hayato Ichimonji / Kamen Rider 2 *

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as Shiro Kazami / Kamen Rider V3 *

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Joji Yuki / Riderman *

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as Tōbei Tachibana * Chisako Kosaka as Chiko * Miyuki Hayata as Mako *

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as King Dark (voice) * Yodchai Meksuwan as Dr. Ward * Tanyarat Lohanan as Juree Bay * Pipop Pupinyo as Hell King * Kan Booncho as Bandit * Chan Wanpen as Bandit * Somnouk as Bandit

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* 1975 films Kamen Rider films 1975 martial arts films Films directed by Sompote Sands 1970s superhero films Thai science fiction films Thai martial arts films Thai crossover films 1970s Japanese films {{Thailand-film-stub