Voyage Into Space

DIFFERENT VERSIONS! The print of the movie that comes free with Prime is different from the SD version which is sold on the Amazon Video platform. The SD version is complete garbage. The video quality is unwatchable. Do not purchase. Just enjoy the Prime version for as long it is available.

Good movie. I just think the quality wasnt all that great. Its amazing what software can do to restore old film. They shouldve used it on such a cult classic such as this one. Ive seen old 1930s movies restored to such clarity and the sound is amazing. But, I understand that sometimes it depends on what material is available. But, still, they couldve worked a little harder to make this one a great presentation.

I am so disappointed by the quality of the video. There is no way this was mastered from any of the original film or video tape. Whomever mastered this for digital should be tossed out. Truly awful work. When I was a little kid, we always looked forward to when this movie would come around. It is pure campy Japanese Sci-Fi. The story is not bad but if you keep a really good sense of humor about Japanese Sci-Fi, you will enjoy this movie. I just wish the quality of the digital master was even reasonably good.

This is a DVD-R not even a real DVD. I intend to ask Amazon if this is even a legal copy, Will be returning. My guess is that it is a bootleg copy and I am amazed that Amazon is selling these. If you are expecting a quality copy dont bother with this. We should expect better from Amazon.

If you grew up watching this movie over and over on channel 5 in the Los Angeles area - this will take you back. However, the video/audio quality is so bad. The audio is a couple of seconds behind the audio - annoying. If you can get your copy from a different source - do it. This one was not good quality.

Ok, short and sweet, HORRIBLE VHS to DVD-R copy and on top of this mess the movie is tagged throughout with SC for Sinister Cinema. Whats wrong with you sinister cinema? I wouldnt lay claim to this LOUSY copy at all, even a free copy is to much. Your production of this classic flick is a slap in the face. I will never buy another production from you EVER.

The pic quality is not 1080p blu ray 1st of all. It is very surprising that the 20 or so reviews I read dont talk about the falsely advertised August Ragone audio commentary. There is none!!!! Anyways buy the 2013 release of the Johnny Sokko Giant Robot tv series on DVD which I recently bought on Amazon which has a very good picture and actually is 11 and a half hours long compared to the only 98 minutes of this movie!!! And believe me the DVD series is pretty good quality too. On the Voyage into Space blu ray case it says nowhere anything about an August Ragone audio commentary!!!! Not is to be found on the disc menu!!! I will be letting August Ragone know about this and I will be returning it. If it wouldve at least had the audio commentary I probably wouldve kept it because the picture quality is a little better ( not much though ) than the DVD series. I give it 3 stars because the movie is like 720 p quality ( barely). If Shout Factory put this out or Tokyo Shock you can best believe there would be what it is said to be Forget Scorpion Releasing too.

Great find

Picture quality and color was terrible!

Voyage Into Space is my Vietnam. It takes 4 episodes of the 26 episode series Giant Robo, or Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot, and crams them into one movie. So why does it distress me so? I saw it when I was probably 5 years old. I was obsessed with robots, like my Mazinger Z Shogun Warrior. I had never seen a movie where the robot dies at the end. Spoiler warning — the robot blows up real good at the end. I cried for years. I might still be crying. Earth has been invaded by an interstellar terrorist group known as the Gargoyle Gang, which is led by Emperor Guillotine, who spends all of his time hidden on the ocean floor in a UFO. Yes, that’s just how awesome this is. They’ve been capturing scientists to create an army of extraordinary magnitude, err monsters, to conquer the Earth. A boy named Daisaku Kusama, or Johnny Sokko in America, where he was voiced by a woman named Bobbie Byers who also shows up in Savages from Hell and The Wild Rebels, and Juro Minami — nee Jerry Mano in the gaijin world — from the spy team Unicorn are all that stands between aliens owning this big blue rock. It gets better for them when they meet scientist Lucius Guardian, who gives a small child the power to control a robot — great logic — before he gets killed and drops a nuke on the aliens. Man, this Gargoyle Gang — they dress like the United Nations of bad guys, donning German, Soviet and Central American military gear all at once, topping it off with designer sunglasses — are bad guys. They have all manner of horrific beasts ready to destroy Earth. In this cut down movie, which is basically episodes 1, 2, 10, 17 and 26 of the show, you get 100 minutes of pure madness. There’s Draculon the Sea Monster, who was known as Dakolar in Japan. Nucleon the Magic Globe — also known as Globar in Tokyo. Lygon, who swallows a train. The Gargoyle Vine, which has the much cooler name in Japan of the Satan Rose. And all manner of evil henchmen like Spider and Doctor Over. The full series even has an alien mummy and a peg-legged snakeman. Unlike most anime and Japanese movies that were sent to the U.S. at this time, nobody thought that they should edit the violence out of this. So in one episode, a kid almost gets killed by a firing squad. And yeah — the ending — where the pharaoh robot dies saving the Earth? I remember going outside and staring into the sky, punching my fist into the ground, screaming at God. No, really. I did. For days. It was so bad that my mother had to write an entirely new ending for me so that I could get on with grade school.