# Message from Space (1978)

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**Original title**: *宇宙からのメッセージ*
**Runtime**: 105 min
**Genres**: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
**Directed by**: Kinji Fukasaku
**Written by**: Kinji Fukasaku, Hirō Matsuda, Masahiro Noda
**Starring**: Vic Morrow, Sonny Chiba, Philip Casnoff, Peggy Lee Brennan, Etsuko Shihomi, Tetsuro Tamba

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## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You’re an unassuming teen on a backwater planet when a dying monarch hands you a seed. The Gavanas strike before you can refuse. The seeds demand action but your crew can barely agree on a name. Fukasaku frames space opera like a brawl in a noodle shop, all sticky tables and sudden elbows.

**Mood tags**: 3am-cult, playful

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