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Kokusai Eiga-sha Part Two: International Movies

(Where were we…let’s see.  BRYGER, yes, HONEY HONEY, all right,  ACROBUNCH, sure, NANAKO SOS... okay... BAXINGER! 1982 would see the return of the J9 in GINGA REPPU BAXINGER or “Galactic Gale Baxinger” as the toy helpfully puts it. 600 years after the climax of BRYGER, the fragile peace of the fifty-planet Solar System is being disrupted by revolutionaries who may be in

Kokusai Movie International Eiga-Sha Corp. 1

Movie International Corporation theme song CD It’s hard to say when I first encountered Kokusai Eiga-sha, or Movie International Co., Ltd.  It might have been a Sunday afternoon cartoon in a non-peak time slot on a niche cable network. Or it might have been a super robot toy incongruously racked in a tacky mall gift shop.  As an anime studio, Kokusai Eiga-sha (or “MIC") produced a lot of