Genres
Production Companies
EE Doc Smith MK Company
MK Productions Ltd.
Madhouse
Kodansha
Lensman (SF新世紀 レンズマン)
Shadow of the Lens
Overview
In this animated adaptation of E. E. Doc Smith's groundbreaking science fiction serial "Grey Lensman" from the 1930s-1950s, Kimball Kinnison, a young man from the agricultural planet Mquie and his Valerian companion, Buscirk find a dying man with a legendary crystal lens embedded in his hand. As the man was dying, he mysteriously passed on the Lens to Kim. With more companions to come by, Kim must find out the purpose of the Lens before the Boskone dynasty does.
Key Crew
Director: Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Kazuyuki Hirokawa
Writer: Soji Yoshikawa
Director of Photography: Iwao Yamaki
Top Cast
Toshio Furukawa
Kimball Kinnison (voice)
Mami Koyama
Clarissa MacDougall (voice)
Chikao Ohtsuka
Pete Van Buskirk (voice)
Nachi Nozawa
Worsel (voice)
Katsuya Kobayashi
DJ Bill (voice)
Seizô Katô
Lord Helmuth (voice)
Eiji Kanie
Narrator (voice)
Hidekatsu Shibata
Port Admiral Haynes (voice)
