Robot of the stars

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Movie
German title Robot of the stars
Original title Tie Chao Ren
Country of production Taiwan , Hong Kong , Japan
original language Chinese
Publishing year 1975
length 84 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Kwok Ting-Hung , Hiroyuki Maekawa
script Kwok Ting-Hung , Kōichi Takano , Kiyoshi Suzuki
occupation

in other roles that cannot be assigned by name: Liang Shao-Hua , Godfrey Ho

Robot of the Stars ( Chinese  鐵 超人 , Pinyin Tie Chao Ren  - "the iron giant") is a science fiction film from 1975. The Taiwanese - Hong Kong - Japanese coproduction was based on the Japanese 26-part television series Super Robot Mach Baron ( ス ー パ ー ロ ボ ッ ト マ ッ ハ バ ロ ン , Sūpā Robotto: Mahha Baron ) from 1974/5, which in turn was a sequel to Super Robot Red Baron from 1973/4.

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The clever Kai is the only survivor of a devastating shipwreck in the Bermuda Triangle , which was caused by aliens. Now he vows to avenge the death of his parents and is supported by the KSS team under the direction of the professor. He will also be the pilot of the “Magical Ballermann”, the super weapon with which the KSS team fights the aliens led by the great coordinator and their advanced robots. A fight between the KSS team and the aliens begins, the aliens try to blackmail the KSS team by taking hostages. Even the professor is captured and is now supposed to reveal the secret manufacturing formula for the valuable element titanium . He does so on the condition that all hostages are released. But the professor refuses to continue to serve the aliens and has to toil in their mine. The professor fakes his death, but at his funeral in the company of the KSS team, he wakes up again to the joy of all those present. With the help of the professor, the KSS team finally succeeds in destroying the aliens.

production

Kōichi Takano and Kiyoshi Suzuki, founding members of the Nihon Gendai Kikaku production company, which produced the 26-part science fiction series Super Robot Mach Baron , wrote the scripts for episodes 1, 2, 11, 12 and 9, which Suzuki directed led to a film script and entered into a cooperation with the Taiwanese film production company Changgong Dianying Gongsi (English Chang Films, Co. ) for a film adaptation of the series. The set of the Japanese television series was used for the special effects scenes, while the remaining scenes with the Taiwanese and Hong Kong leading actors were created in Hong Kong, which was also due to the fact that Changgong Dianying tried to circumvent the strict film censorship of the Kuomintang .

It was directed by Kwok Ting-Hung , who also wrote the script based on the Japanese script. The scenes in Japan were directed by Hiroyuki Maekawas, who, like Takano and Suzuki, also directed the original series.

In Taiwan, the film was released on July 21, 1975, but was banned by film censors on July 24. The film was released in German cinemas in 1976 and received an FSK 16. There was allegedly no script for the German dubbing, Christian Brückner gave the lead role Kai his voice. On August 23, 2015, the Robot of the Stars was shown as part of the series The worst films of all times (SchleFaZ) on Tele 5 on German television, where it was commented by Oliver Kalkofe and Peter Rütten . In Spain the film was marketed as Mazinger: el robot de las estrellas ("Mazinger: The Robot of the Stars"), although apart from the robot it has nothing to do with the Mazinger series .

criticism

Cinema called the film the "SchleFaZ of all SchleFaZe".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e 海外版 『マ ッ ハ バ ロ ン』 考察 . Retrieved May 5, 2016 (Japanese).
  2. ↑ Robot of the Stars. Retrieved April 8, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Robot of the Stars. Retrieved July 24, 2017 .