Swords of the Space Ark

A scrappy, cheerful space-opera patchwork of laser fights and martial-arts scrapping that plays like a Saturday-morning adventure stitched together from TV.

Directed by

Bunker Jenkins, Minoru Yamada

Genres

Science fiction

Starring

Hiroyuki Sanada, Akira Oda, Ryō Nishida

Overview

Sci-fi meets martial arts in this lively chronicle of a warrior pilot who returns to his native planet to find it controlled by a wicked tyrant Captain Kogar. He also finds his family has been slaughtered and so now it is up to him and his pals to kick the heck out of Kogar and return the planet to its rightful rulers. This film was assembled from episodes of the Japanese TV series, Message from Space: Galactic Warriors (which in itself was a spinoff from the feature Message from Space).

How it feels

Campy, earnest, dark and light. Brisk and easy to follow.

About

Revenge, family, power, survival

Content

Mild violence, gore and language. No sexual content.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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