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Lensman (1984)

Lensman (1984)

Action Science Fiction Animation

Shadow of the Lens

Release Date: 1984, June 7
Directors: Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Kazuyuki Hirokawa
Countries: Japan
Production: TOHO, EE Doc Smith MK Company, MK Productions Ltd., Madhouse, Kodansha, Madhouse, Kodansha
Cast: Toshio Furukawa, Mami Koyama, Masato Hirano, Hidekatsu Shibata, Michitaka Kobayashi, Chikao Ohtsuka, Seizo Kato, Masaharu Sato, Tadashi Nakamura, Takeshi Aono, Nachi Nozawa, Koji Yada

Overview:

In this animated adaptation of E. E. Doc Smith's groundbreaking science fiction serial "Grey Lensman" from the 1930s-1950s, Kimball Kinnison, a young man from the agricultural planet Mquie and his Valerian companion, Buscirk find a dying man with a legendary crystal lens embedded in his hand. As the man was dying, he mysteriously passed on the Lens to Kim. With more companions to come by, Kim must find out the purpose of the Lens before the Boskone dynasty does.

Keywords:

space crystal suicide mission slave labor reptilian