In 1979, the original Science Ninja Team Gatchaman series managed to be released in South Korea under the title "Eagle 5 Brothers".
The following year in 1980, an unauthorized two-episode OVA was created by a South Korean company as a sequel, summarizing and heavily lifting from Gatchaman II. It released under the "Eagle 5 Brothers" title, but was also dubbed into Spanish under the title "Heroes del Espacio".
The actual Gatchaman II series would later be imported to South Korea in the '90s, also under the "Eagle 5 Brothers" name. Tatsunoko Productions did not get word of the unauthorized film version until sometime in the 2000s, having been unaware of its existence for so long.
Differences in the footage and plot
- Dr. Pandora wears a long, low-cut pink dress instead of her blue jumpsuit.
- Gel Sadra is grown from a young boy named "Marko", instead of a young girl named Sammie. Marko is also brunet, while Sammie had blonde hair.
- Gel Sadra's lips are colored white, rather than there being lipstick.
- Pandora is killed by X firing a deadly laser through her body, rather than being loaded into a rocket that explodes.
- Gel Sadra is killed in a mecha explosion, rather than being fatally wounded by X.
Links
- Summary of the "Eagle 5 Brothers" film and screencap comparisons of the Korean rotoscoped footage vs. the Tatsunoko original.