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1.7/10   1,304 votes
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Writers:
Shin Morita (writer)
Akihiro Watanabe (story)
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Clumsy invaders from Neptune are thwarted by hero Space Chief and a nondescript group of microshort-wearing Japanese kids. full summary | add synopsis
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Cast

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Sonny Chiba ... Tachibana - Scientist / Space Chief (as Shinichi Chiba)
Kappei Matsumoto ... Tanigawa Hiroshi
Ryuko Mizukami ... Tanigawa Yoko
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Harold Conway ... Washington Broadcast Station Chief
Shinjiro Ebara ... Yanigada - Scientist
Hidemichi Ishikawa ... Yoshimoto Hiroshi
Seiichirô Kameishi ... Yamagata Yukichi
Takashi Kanda ... Defence Chief Takita
Genji Kawai ... Morie
Mitsue Komiya ... Saito - Scientist
Junji Masuda ... Tamiya Hiroshi
Masazumi Okabe ... Railway worker
Kôsaku Okano ... Reporter
Koji Sahara ... Garrison Chief Mikami
Kôji Sawada ... Cosmos Man
Shôken Sawa ... Land Commander Inukai
Koji Sekiyama ... Karimasu
Ken Sudoh ... Staff Chief Miyake
Rinichi Yamamoto
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Invasion from a Planet (International: English title)
Invasion of the Neptune Men (USA)
Space Greyhound (USA) (promotional title)
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Runtime:
USA:74 min
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One of the boys owns a toy Robbie the Robot from Forbidden Planet (1956). more

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13 out of 14 people found the following comment useful.
There is no joy anymore, 16 December 2002
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Author: zmaturin from Neptune

Remember "Prince of Space"? MST3K # 816? Okay. This is basically a remake of that. Instead of Prince of Space, though, we get Space Chief, another effeminent, hopping hero. Instead of the chicken-men of Krankor, we get mute, bullet-headed robots who have trouble walking and fall down at the tiniest hint of danger. And instead of two annoying, gravely voiced, tiny-shorts-wearing kids we get SIX annoying, gravely voiced, tiny-shorts-wearing kids. Slow the whole thing down, add lots of scenes of Japanese people talking in poorly lit rooms, and actual war footage instead of special effects, and you've got one of the worse movies ever made. I know that phrase is over-used and has little or no impact anymore, but this movie really is almost unbearable. It's amazing! It's joyless, depressing, AND technically inept!

Enjoy the Hitler building.

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