{"id":7345,"date":"2013-07-26T09:54:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T02:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/?p=7345"},"modified":"2022-03-26T20:29:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T13:29:45","slug":"shopping-in-bangkok-with-hanuman-and-the-five-riders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/shopping-in-bangkok-with-hanuman-and-the-five-riders","title":{"rendered":"Shopping in Bangkok with Hanuman and the Five Riders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So I\u2019ve gone shopping in Bangkok <\/strong>again, go figure, and because of convenience, time constraints, and personal preference, I have once again returned to Seacon Square \u2013 but this trip sparked something interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"SAMSUNG<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Not a big motorsport enthusiast, I was not initially impressed with the fair they had going on this week. It was a show of two wheeled motorized transport through Thai history, with displays of mini-bikes, racing bikes, the still ubiquitous scooter, and of course a rock band and bikers in leather; if it hadn’t been for the bass player’s pleading thumps I might not have wandered over to take a closer look and would have drawn this shopping excursion in Bangkok<\/strong> to a punctual close. But we\u2019ll get to that in a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I snapped a photo of a bugman costume next to a funny looking street bike and briefly looked over the sign seeing it had come from some classic film. It wasn\u2019t until I got home, and in fact a few days had passed, that I wondered what it was all about. So I looked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hanuman<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Turns out the Masked Rider 6 is a 1974 Thai version of the tokusatsu superheroseries from Japan known as the \u201cKamen Rider\u201d by the Thai production company Chaiyo. Half of the footage came from the Masked Rider 5 or \u201cThe Five Riders vs. King Dark\u201d. The Thai version added the character Hanuman<\/em>, the great white warrior monkey from the Indian epic the Ramayana<\/em> \u2013 known as Ramagayana<\/em> in Thailand. The Thai title translates directly to \u201cHanuman and five red ant men\u201d but the rest of the world, including the antmen\u2019s native Japan, knows it as \u201cHanuman and the Five Riders\u201d. Hanuman turns up a lot in Thai pop culture, if any readers are interested I may explore this theme a bit more in the future…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hanuman<\/a>
I really can’t wait to watch the film and figure out what’s up with the squid blimp.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

But seriously, supernatural antmen motorcycle heroes aside, it was a cool show and another brilliant Bangkok shopping<\/strong> experience. I stopped to check out the band who had been doing some rather rockin\u2019 covers as they had just been handed a round of Singha beers by a gentleman with a sharp leather jacket and red bandana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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