Original Video NUTROCKER マシーネンクリーガー Maschinen Krieger

Original Video NUTROCKER Miniature, Live action short from 1985 Restored from a capture I had from the original VHS. Kow Yokoyama (Mecha Designer) collaborated with Tsuburaya Productions to create a liveaction SF3D film using miniatures in 1985. Directed by Shinichi Ohoka from a script penned by coproducer Hisao Ichikura, the 25minute SF3D Original Video opens with wreckage left from a battle in the Australian desert on Christmas Day 2884 before focusing on a badly damaged IMA SAFS unit. The pilot, Cpl Robert Bush (Tristan Hickey), who is still alive, seeks to get his armored suit back and running and leave the battle area, which is under heavy jamming. Seeing two of the SDR s new Nutrocker (Nutcracker) robot hovertanks arrive nearby, Bush tries to hide, but bodily functions give him away. One Nutcracker gives chase and the SAFS AI points out to Bush how to defeat it. He eventually clambers on to the tank, which passes through the rubble of a town and randomly shoots at high places to bring do