UFO Robot Grendizer vs. Great Mazinger

1976 0h 24m JA

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5.8

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★5.8TMDB · 17

AnimationActionAdventureScience Fiction

Synopsis

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Alien invaders take over Great Mazinger who is at the entrance of a museum next to Mazinger Z as symbols of peace. Grendizer fights the evil invaders and Great Mazinger is recovered. When the Vegan empire dispatches a new general to oversee the takeover of Earth, he quickly manages to capture Koji Kabuto and, learning of Great Mazinger through interrogation, quickly commandeers it from a museum where it was kept as a symbol of peace. It is now up to Duke Fleed aboard Grendizer to stop humanity's former defender from becoming its destroyer.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Kei Tomiyama
Duke Fleed / Daisuke Umon
Joji Yanami
Dr. Umon
Hiroya Ishimaru
Kouji Kabuto
Chiyoko Kawashima
Hikaru Makiba
Kazuko Sawada
Goro Makiba
Kenichi Ogata
Blacky
Kosei Tomita
Gandal Shirei
Keiichi Noda
Tsurugi Tetsuya

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Osamu Kasai
Writers: Keisuke Fujikawa
Languages: Japanese
Countries: Japan

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RUNTIME

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Tight 24-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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2 / 8

ERA

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50 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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3 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Dynamic Pro Super Robot Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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4 / 8

ERA

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Chikako Matsubara shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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6 / 8

CAST

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Kei Tomiyama and Joji Yanami and Hiroya Ishimaru carry the top of the cast.

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7 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt4096826 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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8 / 8

WILD

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Only 17 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Osamu Kasai directs. Chikako Matsubara cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Japan. Dialogue in Japanese.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Tight 24-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
250 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
3Part of the "Dynamic Pro Super Robot Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
5Editor Chikako Matsubara shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Kei Tomiyama and Joji Yanami and Hiroya Ishimaru carry the top of the cast.
7IMDB entry: tt4096826 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
8Only 17 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.