Japan, 1989
92m (Germany), 97m (UK), 101m (Japan)
colour
Dolby, Japanese, English
Reviewed at The EOFFTV Review
A Japanese science fiction film directed by Masato Harada (credited as Alan Smithee on US prints).
Plot Summary
In the year 2025, The Cybortech corporation's gigantic supercomputer Kyron 5, housed in a massive hi-tech facility on the Pacific island of 8JO declares war on Mankind and systematically slaughters any human forces sent in to restore the machine to human control. 13 years after the last of the Gunhed units was destroyed trying to storm 8JO, a group of privateers attempts to salvage whatever it can find from the long abandoned Kyron 5 installation. The island has been shrouded in mystery since the end of the Robot War and Kyron 5 has more or less been left to its own devices ever since. And Kyron 5 isn't as dormant as they'd been led to believe…
Credits
Crew
Director: Masato Harada (Alan Smithee on US prints)
© 1989 Toho Co., Ltd., Sunrise, Inc.
English Dub Version © 1989 Toho Co., Ltd. and Sunrise, Inc.. A Toho/Sunrise production. “Gunhed” Production Committee: Toho Co., Ltd., Sunrise, Inc., Bandai Co., Ltd., Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Company Co., Ltd., Imagica Corp., Toho Pictures, Inc. Produced by Toho Pictures, Inc., Sunrise, Inc.
Produced in association with Hudson. Cooperated with Toho Eizo Bijitsu
Executive Producers: Tomoyuki Tanaka, Eiji Yamaura
Produced by: Yoshishige Shimatani, Tetsuhisa Yamada
Screenplay by: Masato Harada, James Bannon
Director of Photography: Junichi Fujisawa
Film Editor: Yoshitami Kuroiwa
Music by [opening titles] Music Composed by [end titles]: Toshiyuki Honda
Costume Designer: Tokito Yoshida
Make-up Artist: Midori Konuma
Special Effects: Noboru Watanabe, Kazusuke Takasu
Modelling by: Masaharu Ogawa, Moriaki Kamimatsu
Special Photography: Toshimitsu Ooneda
Special Visual Effects: Imagica Group; Crowd; 3D; SPFXXStudio; Q Production; Tsudo Kobo
Motion Control: Sadanori Inaba, Mitsuharu Haihara
Video Effects: Matsuo Aizawa, Nobuya Ishida
Effects Animation: Keita Amamiya, Mitsuaki Ishida
Production Designed by: Sunrise, Inc.
Casting Coordinator: Tadao Tanaka
Cast
Masahiro Takashima (Brooklyn)
Brenda Bakke (Texas Air Ranger Sergeant Nim)
James B. Thompson (Barabbas)
Aya Enyoji (Babe)
Yujin Harada (Seven)
Kaori Mizushima (Eleven)
Yôsuke Saitô
Doll Nguyen (Boomerang)
Jay Kabira (Bombay)
Mickey Curtis (Bansho)
English language version additional cast
Landy Leyes [real name: Randy Reyes] ([voice of] Gunhed)
Landy Leyes, Michael Yancy (narrators)
Alternative Titles
Godzilla II
Godzilla vs Gunhed
Gojira 2
Gunhed – English language title
Gunhed Battalion
Links
Extracts included in
Mindphaser (1992)
