Having accidentally run into a picture of it looking for Dragonlance helm designs... I'm now intrigued. If nothing else, just the visuals and movie history aspect of it. Check out this review.
https://www.moriareviews.com/sciencefiction/message-from-space-1978.htm
Some very interesting details, like the same director from Battle Royale, quoting him:
The special effects are excellent, with the shootouts and explosions and Gerry Anderson-like ships that fold up and fly apart being conducted with enormous energy and enthusiasm. When you compare these to the average Japanese monster movie – of which director Kinji Fukasaku had previously directed The Green Slime (1968) – the film represents a quantum leap forward in Japanese effects technology.
Director Kinji Fukasaku was a prolific director of Japanese B-budget films. He has made a great many Yakuza films and several other ventures into genre material, including The Green Slime (1968) about an alien nasty aboard a space station, the end of the world film Virus (1980), the samurai/horror film Samurai Reincarnation (1981), the martial arts fantasy Legend of the Eight Samurai (1983), the kaidan eiga Crest of Betrayal (1994), and the ultra-violent Battle Royale (2000) and its sequel Battle Royale II: Requiem (2003).
But don't expect too much, b/c:
The characterisations are as per Star Wars – evil dark lord, wise old retired general, young hotshot fighter pilots, princess, cute robot. As is often the case with Japanese space opera, these characters are written to a silly, juvenile level – slapstick sidekicks, comic-book dialogue.
Sonny Chiba is in it? He's also in Kill Bill 1, 2 ... and a ton of old stuff right? via https://space1970.blogspot.com/2010/12/message-from-space-1978-dvd-review.html
Yeah he's in stuff like: Yagyu Clan Conspiracy, 1978, 7.1 IMDB, a Shogun drama.
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