Gariba no Uchu Ryoko

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Japan • 1965 • 80m •

• Directed by: Yoshio Kuroda. • Starring: Kyû Sakamoto, Chiyoko Honma, Seiji Miyaguchi, Shôichi Ozawa, Junko Hori, Makiko Ito, Yukiko Okada, Masao Imanishi, Akira Ôizumi, Stephen DeLugg, Herb Duncan, Robert Harter, Bob Haymes. • Music by: Anne Delugg, Milton Delugg, Isao Tomita, George Brackman.

A young boy meets the famous Lemuel Gulliver, who has just built a rocket ship that will take him exploring outer space. The boy joins him, and the two of them go to the Star of Hope, where they find a civilization that is threatened by evil robots.

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One of the best US/Japan cartoon hybrids, a product of the genre- splicing mentality of the mid-60s which produced such oddities as SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS, LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD AND THE MONSTERS and PINOCCHIO IN OUTER SPACE, this Toei feature from Japan got unusually good treatment in the US from the Walter Reade Organization. It opened in a large number of theatres, and had a nice new score written by Milton and Anne Delugg, even a great soundtrack album on Mainstream Records. The story is familiar: our small hero gets shot into space to battle monsters and super-robots other cool stuff. The cross between fable and (then) hi-tech imaginative imagery works well here, and has a lot in common with another US/Japan Sci-Fi Toon, RAINBOW BRITE AND THE STAR STEALERS. A great toon.

Review by Son of Cathode [IMDB 22 May 2000] from the Internet Movie Database.

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