# Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space (1982)

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**Original title**: *機動戦士ガンダム III めぐりあい宇宙編*
**Runtime**: 140 min
**Genres**: Animation, Science Fiction, Action
**Directed by**: Yoshiyuki Tomino, Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, Osamu Sekita
**Written by**: Yoshiyuki Tomino, Yoshihisa Araki, Hiroyuki Hoshiyama
**Starring**: Toru Furuya, Shuichi Ikeda, Yo Inoue, Keiko Han, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Fuyumi Shiraishi

> *Space reverberates, and two souls meet by chance....*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You pilot a teenage refugee named Amuro into the White Base’s 13th Autonomous Corps and the Principality of Zeon’s last fleet. Your mobile suit’s bullets ricochet off a Zeon cruiser during the decisive battle. Osamu Sekita layers the chaos with a story that keeps space wars human.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, epic, outsider, slow-burn

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