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The War in Space

The War in Space

The Space War to Decide the Fate of All Mankind!

Part of The Mysterians Collection

1977•1h 31m•6.0/10
AdventureScience FictionAction

Ratings

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6.0/10(25)

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.

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Production

Toho Pictures, Toho Eizo Bijutsu, Tokyo Laboratory

Language

JA

Status

Released

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Cast

Kensaku Morita

Kensaku Morita

Koji Miyoshi

Yuko Asano

Yuko Asano

Jun Takigawa

Ryō Ikebe

Ryō Ikebe

Professor Masato Takigawa

Masaya Oki

Masaya Oki

Reikai Muroi

Hiroshi Miyauchi

Hiroshi Miyauchi

Kazuo Fuyuki

Hideji Ōtaki

Hideji Ōtaki

Dr. Matsuzawa

Katsutoshi Atarashi

Tadashi Mikasa

Akihiko Hirata

Akihiko Hirata

Defense Countermeasure Supreme Commander Oshi

Gorō Mutsumi

Gorō Mutsumi

Hell Commander

David Perin

Jimmy

Shoji Nakayama

Shoji Nakayama

Staff officer

Susumu Ôtani

Gohten pilot

Junichi Kudo

Gohten pilot

Koichi Yoshida

Gohten controller

Isao Hashimoto

Isao Hashimoto

Research worker

William Ross

Dr. Schmidt

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