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| GUNHED |
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| Directed by |
Masato Harada |
| Produced by |
Yoshishige Shimatani, Tomoyuki Tanaka, Tetsuhisa Yamada, Eiji Yamaura |
| Written by |
Jim Bannon, Masato Harada |
| Starring |
Masahiro Takashima, Brenda Bakke |
| Music by |
Toshiyuki Honda, Takayuki Baba |
| Distributed by |
Toho, ADV Films |
| Release date(s) |
July 22nd, 1989 (Japan) |
| Running time |
100 min. |
| Language |
Japanese English (dubbed) |
| Budget |
¥1,500,000,000 / $10,500,000 |
| IMDb profile |
- Masahiro Takashima as Brooklyn
- Brenda Bakke as Sergeant Nim, Texas Air Ranger
- Aya Enyoji as Babe
- Yujin Harada as Seven
- Kaori Mizushima as Eleven
- Brewster Thompson as Barabbas James
- Doll Nguyen as Boomerang
- Jay Kabira as Bombbay
- Randy Reyes as voice of Gunhed
- Mickey Curtis as Bansho the Captain of Mary Ann
- Yosuke Saito as Boxer
- Michael Yancy as Narrator
[edit] Synopsis
- The tank prop that portrayed GUNHED resides in Japan as a public display for people to see.
- Gunhed stands for 'Gun UNit Heavy Elimination Device'
- Originally an idea for "Godzilla vs. Biollante", in which Godzilla would have fought Aerobot.
- The concept for the film came from a story contest that Toho held in 1986, which was to decide on the narrative for the next installment in the Godzilla series. Jim Bannon was the contestant who was noted for his Godzilla 2 script, which had Godzilla facing off against a giant computer, but was beat out by Shinichiro Kobayashi with his early draft for Godzilla vs. Biollante. However, Toho didn't scrap Bannon's second place entry, but instead had Masato Harada heavily rework the idea, removing Godzilla and other elements from the film, until they were left with the final product: the infamous Gunhed.
- The image of Gunhead has been digitized into several early generation space shooting games, but the actual version of the tank was never used and was replaced by a flying spaceship.
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