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All movies seen on 05/02/2023

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Voyage Into Space (1970)

Directed by Minoru Yamada

Science Fiction | Action

Overview

Earth is invaded by an interstellar terrorist group, Big Fire (the Gargoyle Gang in the American version), led by Emperor Guillotine who spends most of his time in a multicolored space ship hidden at the bottom of Earth’s ocean, from which he issues his orders. Big Fire is capturing scientists to create an army of monsters to conquer Earth. A boy named Daisaku Kusama (Johnny Sokko in the American version) and a young Unicorn agent named Jūrō Minami (Jerry Mano in the American version) are shipwrecked on an island after being attacked by a sea monster and subsequently captured by Big Fire. They flee to where a Pharaoh-like giant robot is being built by captive scientist Lucius Guardian, who gives Daisaku and Jūrō its control device.  Guardian helps them escape before he is shot to death; before he dies, he triggers an atomic bomb which destroys the base. The radiation activates the robot, which now obeys only Daisaku.

Length 98 minutes

Actors

Mitsunobu Kaneko | Akio Ito | Shôzaburô Date | Tomomi Kuwabara | Jerry Berke | Toshiyuki Tsuchiyama | Bobbie Byers | Ted Rusoff

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

Oddly had not seen this movie adaptation of the Johnny Socko’s Flying Robot series despite having grown up viewing the tv show. This AIP release just mashes together the origin episodes to make a feature film. It’s fine. Point up for the nostalgia factor. Gotta say, that’s a very dumb name for this movie that takes place on Earth.

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