# Los Caballeros del Zodiaco: Contraatacan (1988)

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**Original title**: *聖闘士星矢 真紅の少年伝説*
**Runtime**: 75 min
**Genres**: Action, Animation, Fantasy
**Directed by**: Shigeyasu Yamauchi
**Written by**: Yoshiyuki Suga
**Starring**: Toru Furuya, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Hideyuki Hori, Ryo Horikawa, Koichi Hashimoto, Keiko Han

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You train under a dying master when a god resurrects thirsting for annihilation. Your four comrades stand ready at your side yet Athena walks away. This is the war that tests whether saints born from earth can outlast divine wrath. Yamauchi’s 80s anime frames martial ardor against celestial indifference leaving only clenched fists in the void.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, epic, uplifting

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