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Battle in Outer Space
Why this pick
A straight-faced Japanese space opera with besieged Earth, miniature spacecraft, colorful cosmic warfare, and the same delight in earnest spectacle that powers Message from Space.
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Battle Beyond the Stars
Why this pick
Its scrappy band of interstellar fighters, threatened world, and exuberantly handmade effects deliver a closely related underdog-against-empire space-adventure charge.
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The Green Slime
Why this pick
Fukasaku brings the same urgent, pulpy momentum to a space-station siege, blending international-cast adventure, bold production design, and tactile monster-movie spectacle.
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Gorath
Why this pick
This grand-scale Japanese disaster-space fantasy treats impossible cosmic danger with complete conviction, featuring elaborate effects work and a stirring collective fight for survival.
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The Last Starfighter
Why this pick
An ordinary young man is swept into an interstellar rebellion in this sincere, high-spirited adventure, balancing arcade-like space battles with a warmly old-fashioned heroic spirit.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The peaceful planet of Jillucia, in the Andromeda galaxy, has been conquered by the steel-skinned warriors of the Gavanas Empire, who have turned the planet into a military fortress. Kido, leader of the tribes of Jillucia, sends out eight Liabe Seeds to seek help in liberating their planet. Kido's granddaughter, Princess Emeralida, and the warrior Urocco follow the seeds into space. The Gavanas, on the orders of Emperor Rockseia XXII, pursue the Jillucian's space-galleon as it flees the planet.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Vic Morrow
General Garuda
Etsuko Shihomi
Esmeralida
Philip Casnoff
Aaron
Peggy Lee Brennan
Meia
Hiroyuki Sanada
Shiro
Junkichi Orimoto
Kido
Noboru Mitani
Kamesasa
Tetsurō Tamba
Ernest Noguchi