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An embattled planet, which is on the edge of doom, sends an S.O.S. and an intergalactic team comes to its rescue.An embattled planet, which is on the edge of doom, sends an S.O.S. and an intergalactic team comes to its rescue.An embattled planet, which is on the edge of doom, sends an S.O.S. and an intergalactic team comes to its rescue.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
Shin'ichi Chiba
- Prince Hans
- (as Sonny Chiba)
Etsuko Shihomi
- Emeralida
- (as Sue Shiomi)
Takayuki Akutagawa
- Narrator
- (Japanese version)
- (voice)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaFeatures a cameo from crooner Chris Isaak who briefly appeared as a card-playing gambler.
- ConnectionsEdited into Space Sheriff Gavan: The Head of Don Horror (1983)
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Low-budget special effects in Godzilla movies are part of their charm, where the rest of the movie is just filler for in between the scenes where a big guy in a rubber suit stomps on a model train set until he either gets beaten up by the good-guy monster or perishes at the hands of plucky young children in short pants.
Here all you have is the filler, and it isn't much. Vic Morrow tries to interject a little dignity and professionalism into the flick, but is done in by wretched special effects and a terrible script that may have been better in Japanese but I wouldn't wager by much. This movie was made about fifteen years too late, after "2001" showed that the future could be realistic and without huge tail fins.
This movie is even worse than the abysmal "Fugitive Alien" flicks shown on MST3K. (which was edited from a TV series, which probably explains a lot) And it has a robot that is so annoying that it makes Twiki from Buck Rogers seem like Obi Wan Kenobi by comparison.
Here all you have is the filler, and it isn't much. Vic Morrow tries to interject a little dignity and professionalism into the flick, but is done in by wretched special effects and a terrible script that may have been better in Japanese but I wouldn't wager by much. This movie was made about fifteen years too late, after "2001" showed that the future could be realistic and without huge tail fins.
This movie is even worse than the abysmal "Fugitive Alien" flicks shown on MST3K. (which was edited from a TV series, which probably explains a lot) And it has a robot that is so annoying that it makes Twiki from Buck Rogers seem like Obi Wan Kenobi by comparison.
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Return to Jelucia
- Filming locations
- Kyoto, Japan(Kyoto International Conference Hall and Toiei Studios, exteriors)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- ¥6,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 45 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.00 : 1
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