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{{quote|''"Oh, I know a song about [[Stock Footage]]. It goes like this: [[Minsky Pickup|da-da-dadaDAda]]---EAT IT, MOVIE! TAKE THIS STUPID LITTLE COCKROACH OF A FILM, ROLL IT UP'' SOOOOO ''TIGHT, AND THEN RAM IT RIGHT UP YOUR (''[[Curse Cut Short|Breaks down in sobs]]'')"''|'''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000|Tom Servo]]'''}}
A 1961 sci-fi flick (''Uchū Kaisokusen'', or "The High-speed Spaceship", in the original Japanese) famous for its appearance by a young Sonny. What little plot there is concerns a gang of nameless Japanese children wandering around town and running into an invasion by the titular torpedo-headed Neptune men, some sort of "[[Deflector Shields|electro-barrier]]", and Space <s>Chef</s> <s>Late</s> Chief (''Iron-Sharp'' in the original), a superhero and "ineffectual chicken-headed bachelor" dedicated to fighting the Neptunian menace. Aside from that, it's pretty much ''[[Prince of Space]]'' with added World War II stock footage (featuring a delightful cameo by Adolf Hitler) but without [[So Bad It's Good|the charm of the Chicken Men of Krankor]].
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* [[Cool Car]]: We're clearly supposed to think Space Chief's flying rocket car is super wicked sick, but even if it weren't made of cardboard and styrofoam you probably wouldn't want to have it.
* [[Dude Looks Like a Lady]]: The Neptune Men when disguised as humans feature men wearing heavy pancake makeup, lipstick and mascara.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: This movie stars then 22 year old Sonny Chiba.
* [[Hong Kong Dub]]: The voices for the kids are incredibly stupid. Disregarding that, fairly standard for its time, but... gah, those stupid kids.
* [[Landmark of Lore]]: The Japanese Diet building and of course, The Hitler Building.
* [[The Load]]: The omnipresent Japanese children when they have to be saved by Prince of Space Chief. However, this trope is subverted as follows:
** The kids are the ones to discover and report the aliens, find the piece of the spaceship that is blown off, and deliver the device that the aliens use to communicate with the humans. They even notice the disguised soldier aliens before anyone else. They're actually more useful than Space Chief is.
*** Bear in mind that they were just the first ones on-site in both instances. Anyone with a pair of working eyes...or, failing that, ''one'' working eye, would have been able to see what they did. And be a lot less shrill when telling people about it. And probably cut down on all the running time by having a driver's license and car.
* [[Non-Indicative Name]]: Space Chief is never seen to go into space. He's more like Lower Atmosphere Chief, really.
** Barely-Off-The-Stupid-Ground-Chief.
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