Movielogr

The War in Space (1977)

Directed by Jun Fukuda

Science Fiction | Action

Overview

The year is 1988, and in the midst of recovering from a near-miss with a large comet, Earth finds that there are much worse matters at hand: the sudden arrival of a strange army of aliens and their fleet of unstoppable warships.

Length 91 minutes

Actors

Kensaku Morita | Yuko Asano | Ryô Ikebe | Masaya Oki | Hiroshi Miyauchi | Hideji Ôtaki | Katsutoshi Atarashi | Akihiko Hirata | Goro Mutsumi | David Perin | Shoji Nakayama | Susumu Ôtani | Junichi Kudo | Koichi Yoshida | Isao Hashimoto | William Ross

Viewing History (seen 4 times)

Date ViewedDeviceFormatSourceRating
02/29/2024TVBroadcastTV5.5 stars
02/21/2022TVBroadcastTV5.5 stars
12/31/2019TVStreamingVideo on Demand0 stars
04/30/2017TVOtherOwned0 stars
 

Viewing Notes

Not one of Fukuda’s better films but entertaining nevertheless for the neat miniatures and decent cast. Hard to believe that Yuko Asano was only 16 or 17 when this made. She looks older.

Super curious as to when this movie was in production. It was released at the end of 1977 so I wonder if it was a result of the success of Star Wars and thrown into a quick production and perhaps why the movie suffers in most departments compared to Fukuda’s other work.

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