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Future War 198X is a film of genre Drama directed by Toshio Masuda with Masashi Amenomori
Future War 198X (1982)
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Add to a movie listFuture War 198X is a 1982 Japanese anime science fiction war film directed by Toshio Masuda and Tomoharu Katsumata.
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The film tells of the events leading up to World War III and the characters it most closely affects. Burt, an American scientist and a specialist in Star Wars orbital antimissile lasers, invents a Missile Defense System, making it so the USA no longer feels threatened by nuclear war. The world looks on as his test is successful. His sister and best friend, Laura and Wataru, soon find out that he has been kidnapped by Soviet spies. Burt is kept on a Russian submarine on its way to Vladivostok. To prevent leakage of information, the U.S. use nuclear torpedoes to sink the ship.Actors
Masashi Amenomori
(General Secretary Orlov (voice))
Kin'ya Kitaōji
(Wataru Mikumo (voice))
Masako Natsume
(Laura Gaine (voice))
Keiichi Noda
(Professor Brown)
Hidekatsu Shibata
(Burt Gaine (voice))
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