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|title=<center>Five of the Super Riders</center>
|image=The_Five_Of_Super_Rider_Poster.jpg
|imagecaption=The Taiwanese theatrical poster.
|status=<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>
|datefound=03 Mar 2020
|foundby=文彥
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'''''The Five of Super Riders''''' (閃電五騎士 Shǎn Diàn Wǔ Qí Shì, lit. "The Five Lightning Riders") was a Taiwanese adaptation of the ''Kamen Rider'' movie ''Five Riders vs King Dark'' and the first episodes of ''Kamen Rider X'' released on January 23rd, 1976.

==Genesis==
In 1975, the Japanese TV and film studio Toei Company licensed out 4 of their ''Kamen Rider'' featurettes originally released on Toei's manga fair ''Toei Manga Matsuri'' and a handful of suits to Taiwanese film studio Tong Hsing Film Co., Ltd. to create 3 movie adaptations for the international market.<ref>[http://youtu.be/s_xRk9XgmAw Video by Super Rider]</ref>

The three movies were<br>
* ''The Super Rider V3'' (adaptation of ''Kamen Rider V3'' and the movie ''Kamen Rider V3 vs Destron Mutants''), released on November 11, 1975.
* ''The Five of Super Riders'' (adaptation of ''Kamen Rider X'' and the movie ''The Five Riders vs King Dark''), released on January 23, 1976.
* ''The Super Rider'' (adaptation of ''Kamen Rider vs. Shocker'' and ''Kamen Rider vs. Hell Ambassador''), released on July 17, 1976.

These adaptations had new footage shot with Taiwanese actors replacing the Japanese cast, not unlike the ''Power Rangers'' franchise, and changed the plots to them to form a film trilogy. Notable changes included Riderman being turned into a female character and the character Garagaranda being a separate monster instead of Ambassador Hell's monster form in this film series.

==Premise==
The 5 great Super Riders must team up to stop the evil world domination plot of Emperor Chi Wu and his monster army.

==Availability==
While the first and third movies can be found in their entirety online and on DVD and Blu-Ray releases due to their German and French releases, the second movie, ''Five of the Super Riders'', never saw a wide international release. It was released in South Korea sometime in the late 1980s as part of the direct-to-video three-episode series ''번개기사5형제'' (English: The 5 Lightning Rider Brothers), where each episode is the Korean dub of each ''Super Riders'' movie with ''Five of the Super Riders'' being the first episode, and in and Latin America under the titles ''Karatekas del Espacio'' (English: ''Space Karatekas'') and ''Los Supermanes De La Galaxia'' (English:''The Supermen Of The Galaxy''). The Latin Spanish dub is now lost while the South Korean version has recently been uploaded in its entirety, with user 흑연마왕 uploading all three episodes of the ''Super Riders'' movies' Korean dubs on YouTube throughout May and April 2022<ref>[http://youtu.be/tAxA63Ebo5o 번개기사5형제 I (Korean dub of Five of Super Riders)]</ref><ref>[http://youtu.be/DIASZ-0i-l8 번개기사5형제 II (Korean dub of The Super Rider V3)]</ref><ref>[http://youtu.be/YjqFIowT0mU 번개기사5형제 III (Korean dub of The Super Rider)]</ref>.

The movie's Taiwanese cut was re-released on April 16th, 1987, and has allegedly been released several times on VHS.

On March 8th, 2020, the original Taiwanese cut was finally made available on YouTube by user 文彥.<ref>[http://youtu.be/51y7NjEtcG8 電影 閃電五騎士 完整版]</ref>

While ''The Five of Super Riders'' was the last movie of the trilogy to be found, it was the first one to have its original Mandarin cut be made fully available, with the Mandarin cuts of The Super Rider V3<ref>[https://archive.org/details/the-super-rider-v-3-pal-h-264-pcm]</ref> and The Super Riders Vs. The Devils<ref>[https://archive.org/details/super-riders]</ref> being found in 2022 and 2024 respectively. 

==Gallery==
<gallery mode=packed heights=175px>
Superider_lobby_card.jpg|''Five of Super Riders'' Lobby Card.
HK Super Rider poster.jpg|Hong Kong ''Five of Super Riders'' poster.
Latin American Super Rider poster.jpg|Latin American ''Five of the Super Riders'' poster.
Korean_Super_Rider.jpg|South Korean VHS of the first episode of ''번개기사5형제'' (''The Five Super Riders'').
</gallery>
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