The War in Space (1977)
Original title: 惑星大戦争
The War in Space is a 1977 Japanese-language adventure movie directed by Jun Fukuda, with a running time of 1h 31m. It stars Kensaku Morita, Yuko Asano and Ryō Ikebe.
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.
Cast
- Kensaku Morita as Koji Miyoshi
- Yuko Asano as Jun Takigawa
- Ryō Ikebe as Professor Masato Takigawa
- Masaya Oki as Reikai Muroi
- Hiroshi Miyauchi as Kazuo Fuyuki
- Hideji Ōtaki as Dr. Matsuzawa
- Katsutoshi Atarashi as Tadashi Mikasa
- Akihiko Hirata as Defense Countermeasure Supreme Commander Oshi
- Gorō Mutsumi as Hell Commander
- David Perin as Jimmy
- Shoji Nakayama as Staff officer
- Susumu Ôtani as Gohten pilot