Ad Astra: Cinematic Hypnotism
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The War in Space
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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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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Genre:Adventure, Science Fiction, Action
Written By:Ryuzo Nakanishi, Hideichi Nagahara
In Theaters:
Box Office:$4,000,000
Runtime:91 minutes
Studio:Toho Pictures, Toho Eizo Bijutsu, Tokyo Laboratory
Cast
Jun Fukuda
Director
Kensaku Morita
Koji Miyoshi
Yuko Asano
Jun Takigawa
Ryō Ikebe
Professor Masato Takigawa
Masaya Oki
Reikai Muroi
Hiroshi Miyauchi
Kazuo Fuyuki
Hideji Ōtaki
Dr. Matsuzawa
Katsutoshi Atarashi
Tadashi Mikasa
Akihiko Hirata
Defense Countermeasure Supreme Commander Oshi
Gorō Mutsumi
Hell Commander
David Perin
Jimmy
Shoji Nakayama
Staff officer
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