Voyage Into Space
January. 01,1970
Earth is invaded by an interstellar terrorist group, Big Fire (the Gargoyle Gang in the American version), led by Emperor Guillotine who spends most of his time in a multicolored space ship hidden at the bottom of Earth's ocean, from which he issues his orders. Big Fire is capturing scientists to create an army of monsters to conquer Earth. A boy named Daisaku Kusama (Johnny Sokko in the American version) and a young Unicorn agent named Jūrō Minami (Jerry Mano in the American version) are shipwrecked on an island after being attacked by a sea monster and subsequently captured by Big Fire. They flee to where a Pharaoh-like giant robot is being built by captive scientist Lucius Guardian, who gives Daisaku and Jūrō its control device. Guardian helps them escape before he is shot to death; before he dies, he triggers an atomic bomb which destroys the base. The radiation activates the robot, which now obeys only Daisaku.
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Such a frustrating disappointment
Crappy film
This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
I first saw this movie when I was about 12 or 13 years old. It's incredibly cool. However, I think IMDb got it wrong- I believe the movie consists of 5 episodes of Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot, not 4. The episodes in the movie are as follows:Episode 1 - Dracolon - The Great Sea Monster.Episode 2 - Nucleon - The Magic Globe.Episode 10 - The Transformed Humans.Episode 17 - Destroy the Dam.Episode 26 - The Last of Emperor Guillotine.All of the Johnny Sokko episodes are available to watch on Hulu. So if you want to re-live Voyage Into Space, watch the above-listed episodes.
I remember this movie when I was a kid and I am not the only one. And the thing that I really like is that most of the people who have made any comments on this movie remembers seeing it on channel 5 ktla out of LA. I remember that they would show this movie on that weekend show, family film festival. I would love to see this movie in in its entirety. I have seen individual episodes on Netflix, but it is still fun to see this day. Watching them and remembering the Giant Robot with the missiles coming out of the tips of his fingers and how he would fight. Great stuff from a by gone age of film making. I would not like to see a remake of this today. I believe that they would mess it up with CGI and it would lose all that charm the first show and film had. It would be a sad day for Voyage into Space fans everywhere.
OK, I admit it, I'm 40 and still shed a tear every time I watch Johnny calling back his Robot at the end."Robot, now stop! Don't do it, stop the attack...Robot, what are you doing, Robot... Robot, where are you going Robot, come back! Robot...Robot please! Don't do it, you'll die... Robot... Robot, please comeback! I need you here Giant Robot... Robot! Giant Robot " -Johnny Sokko, The Last of Emperor GuillotineOf all the Tokusatsu thats out there, Giant robot has a special place in my heart and will always be there. I credit it with getting me into everything sci-fi and anime when i was a kid. LIVE ON GR!
I have not seen this film in more than 25 years but I loved it as a child, and saw it at least a half dozen times. I would like to find a copy to view for nostalgia reasons, and yes, I have also never forgotten the tune of the theme music.
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