Short film

UFO Robot Grendizer vs. Great Mazinger

1976 · 24 min

Bright, noisy robot spectacle with a nostalgic Saturday-morning energy, built around colourful clashes and a simple heroic rescue.

Directed by: Osamu Kasai
Genres: Animation, Action, Adventure
Starring: Kei Tomiyama, Joji Yanami, Hiroya Ishimaru

Overview: Alien invaders take over Great Mazinger who is at the entrance of a museum next to Mazinger Z as symbols of peace. Grendizer fights the evil invaders and Great Mazinger is recovered. When the Vegan empire dispatches a new general to oversee the takeover of Earth, he quickly manages to capture Koji Kabuto and, learning of Great Mazinger through interrogation, quickly commandeers it from a museum where it was kept as a symbol of peace. It is now up to Duke Fleed aboard Grendizer to stop humanity's former defender from becoming its destroyer.

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Directed by: Osamu Kasai
Genres: Animation, Action, Adventure
Starring: Kei Tomiyama, Joji Yanami, Hiroya Ishimaru

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Tone: earneststrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
campystrength 1 of 3
upliftingstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: power
betrayal
survival
loyalty
war
Places: big city
space
Era: far-future
Audience: family
Form: animated
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence mild
Sex none

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Action	8
Horror	2
Humour	3
Realism	2
Romance	1
Tension	6
Darkness	4
Complexity	3
Emotional weight	4

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Genres: animation, action, adventure, science fiction
Directed by: Osamu Kasai
Written by: Keisuke Fujikawa
Starring: Kei Tomiyama, Joji Yanami, Hiroya Ishimaru, Chiyoko Kawashima, Kazuko Sawada, Kenichi Ogata, Kosei Tomita, Keiichi Noda
Runtime: 24 min
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese

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