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4.2/10   266 votes
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Director:
Kinji Fukasaku
Writers:
Kinji Fukasaku (story)
Shotaro Ishinomori (story)
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Release Date:
30 October 1978 (USA) more
Genre:
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | War more
Tagline:
Where Fantasies are Real & Reality is Fantastic.
Plot:
In this Star Wars take-off, the peaceful planet of Jillucia has been nearly wiped out by the Gavanas... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 nomination more
User Comments:
NOT a STAR WARS "ripoff" more (27 total)

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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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Message from Space (International: English title)
Message from Space: Galactic Wars
Return to Jelucia (USA) (cable TV title)
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Runtime:
USA:105 min
Country:
Japan
Language:
Japanese
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.00 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Super Space Sound
Certification:
Iceland:L | Australia:PG | USA:PG | West Germany:12
Filming Locations:
Kyoto, Japan
Company:
Toei Company more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Portions of this film were spliced into "Astron Belt", the first laserdisc-based arcade game. more
Movie Connections:
Version of Satomi hakken-den (1983) more

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NOT a STAR WARS "ripoff", 8 May 2009
4/10
Author: krasnegar (fairportfan@gmail.com) from Atlanta

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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