# The Five Star Stories (1989)

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**Original title**: *ファイブスター物語*
**Runtime**: 65 min
**Genres**: Science Fiction, Action, Animation, Drama
**Directed by**: Kazuo Yamazaki
**Written by**: Akinori Endo
**Starring**: Ryo Horikawa, Maria Kawamura, Kazuhiko Inoue, Norio Wakamoto, Hideyuki Tanaka, Ichiro Nagai

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You're a Headliner riding into battle beneath twin red suns and your fatima hums a lullaby as she powers your Mortar Head’s plasma blade. Then the empire's newest decree demands all knights surrender their fatimas to the Crown.

A director’s camera lingers on a fatima’s silent wristwatch while Yamazaki turns the lens back on the viewer.

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