Chikyu Sentai Fiveman (地球戦隊ファイブマン, Chikyū Sentai Faibuman; Earth Squadron Fiveman) is a Japanese television tokusatsu series broadcast by TV Asahi. The series is the fourteenth installment of Super Sentai. Directed by Takao Nagaishi, Masao Minowa, Kiyoshi Arai and Shohei Tojo, it stars Toshiya Fuji, Kei Shindachiya, Ryouhei Kobayashi, Kazuko Miyata, Keiko Hayase, Chika Matsui, Takeshi Ishikawa, Shunsaku Kudo, Hatsue Nishi, Motoko Watanabe and Kihachiro Uemura. It aired from March 2, 1990 to February 8, 1991, replacing Kousoku Sentai Turboranger and was replaced by Chōjin Sentai Jetman. The names given by Toei for international distribution are Fiveman or Sky Rangers.
It was released by Shout! Factory on Region 1 DVD on September 6, 2022, as part of Shout! Factory's new partnership with Hasbro. It originally was teased to be released in 2019. This is the second Super Sentai series to be officially released in North America that does not have a Power Rangers counterpart. The first one released was Chōjin Sentai Jetman, which was the series that came out the year following Fiveman. Jetman was released in the region on September 25, 2018.
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