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30 October 1978 (USA)
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Where Fantasies are Real & Reality is Fantastic.
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In this Star Wars take-off, the peaceful planet of Jillucia has been nearly wiped out by the Gavanas...
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NOT a STAR WARS "ripoff"
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Cast
(Credited cast)| Sonny Chiba | ... | Hans | |
| Jerry Ito | |||
| Vic Morrow | ... | General Garuda | |
| Philip Casnoff | ... | Aaron | |
| Etsuko Shihomi | ... | Esmeralida | |
| Peggy Lee Brennan | ... | Meia | |
| Tetsurô Tanba | ... | Noguchi | |
| Hiroyuki Sanada | ... | Shiro | |
| Mikio Narita | ... | Rockseia XLL | |
| Makoto Satô | ... | Urocco | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Eisei Amamoto | ... | Mother Dark (in drag) | |
| Seizo Fukumoto | |||
| Noboru Mitani | ... | Kamesasa | |
| Masazumi Okabe | ... | Jackie | |
| Junkichi Orimoto | ... | Kido | |
| Charles Scawthorn | ... | 1st guard, at Headquarters entrance | |
| Isamu Shimizu | ... | Beba, the robot | |
| Harumi Sone | ... | Lazare | |
| Sandâ Sugiyama | ... | Big Samu | |
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Message from Space (International: English title)
Message from Space: Galactic Wars
Return to Jelucia (USA) (cable TV title)
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Message from Space: Galactic Wars
Return to Jelucia (USA) (cable TV title)
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USA:105 min
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Portions of this film were spliced into "Astron Belt", the first laserdisc-based arcade game.
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Version of Satomi hakken-den (1983)
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This movie was ready for release in Japan when Star Wars was released.
If this film "rips off" anything, it's "The Seven Samurai".
And, since Star Wars is a blatant "rip off" of two or three Japanese films - mostly Kurosawa's "Hidden Fortress", but also somewhat his "Yojimbo" - and took other major action bits - the attack on the Death Star, for instance - from English World War 2 films, accusing *anything* of being "a STAR WARS ripoff" simply shows how little the accuser knows of film history.
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