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The War in Space

1977·91 min

The War in Space

Directed by Jun Fukuda

AdventureScience FictionAction

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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Koji Miyoshi

Jun Takigawa

Professor Masato Takigawa

Reikai Muroi

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Ryuzo Nakanishi

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Hideichi Nagahara

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The War in Space (1977) is about 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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Jun Fukuda directed The War in Space (1977).

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