A similar controversy would happen 6 years later with the Japanese Horror movie " Prophecies of Nostradamus" for also depicting mutated, disfigured humans roaming a nuclear war stricken Earth in the movie's climactic fantasy sequence. Donning their combat armor, they fight seriously once again to defeat the power of the storm and its cause, the Cowboy. At the time, A-Bomb Survivors, were ostracized in Japanese society out of fear that they've been "mutated" by the radiation, even if one was not visibly disfigured by the bomb, and that one could become mutated just by being exposed to one (Not unlike the AIDS crisis of the 1980's) and the episode was seen as insensitive to those disfigured or suffering from the affects of the bomb. A Tempestuous Visitor 26m Bringing a warning about the future and a request, journalist Lucy Davenport confronts Gilmore and the cyborgs about their past. This episode, along with the following episode Ghost of the Pacific, caused a significant amount of controversy with Parent Teacher groups and Hibakusha activists (A-Bomb Survivors) for depicting mutated humans after a nuclear war decimated the planet.Mutants from the year 2268 come to 1968 in a time machine to escape the nuclear holocaust of World War III and try to change the future by attacking the people of the past!Įpisode Recap Characters Notes
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