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Title: Lensman: Secret of the Lens (1984)
Tagline: Shadow of the Lens
Genre: Animation, Action, Science Fiction
Director: Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Kazuyuki Hirokawa
Cast: Toshio Furukawa, Mami Koyama, Chikao Ohtsuka, Nachi Nozawa, Katsuya Kobayashi, Seizō Katō, Eiji Kanie, Hidekatsu Shibata, Kōji Yada, Takeshi Aono, Masaharu Sato, Yasuo Tanaka, Masashi Hironaka, Michitaka Kobayashi, Shingo Kanemoto, Tadashi Nakamura, Masato Hirano, Yuko Saito, Tadashi Yokouchi
Release: 1984-06-07
Runtime: 107
Plot: 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.