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Amanecer del siglo XXI. La humanidad ha colonizado y desarrollado la vida en Marte. Pero no estamos solos en el universo. Existe una raza de aliens, conocida como Gods ("Dioses"), que han estado observando el desarrollo de la humanidad... y esperando. Estos alienígenas han venido a detener por la fuerza la expansión del hombre en el espacio. Ahora, la humanidad luchará en una guerra encarnizada, con los últimos recursos militares y de alta tecnología, y con las armas más avanzadas, incluida "Hell", una imparable arma aérea. Los extraterrestres también cuentan con un arma principal sumamente letal, una placa de control mental que transforma a todas las personas en criaturas peligrosas, de manera inevitable e incurable. Nuestra última esperanza depende del Capitan Akuh y su acorazado Aoba.
Screenplay
Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamoto novel, takes place around 1902, was about a young boy brought up entirely by his mother since his drunken father is never home. An intelligent teacher wants to send him to middle school, but instead the father apprentices him to a clothing store to which he is in debt. The mother dies and the boy is forced to quit work when his father insults the store owner. Later the boy goes to Tokyo, but only to continue his hardships. First he is forced to do a maid's job at a boarding house and later is used by an old woman to steal at funerals. Finally he is rescued by the teacher, whom he meets in Tokyo.
Screenplay
An early example of the Japanese war film, closer to documentary realism than the kind of propaganda produced at the height of the Pacific War. "A company commander calls on five men. They are to reconnoiter, but on their way they are attacked. Only four of them return. While his companions mourn the fifth straggles back. Soon after comes the order to move out for a general attack. The men know that this time there will be no returning." (Donald Richie)
