I remember this "farout" Japanese import, me and my brother saw, on the bowling for dollars movie of the week. It was on KTLA with Chick Hearn. It was literally the movie of the week,they showed the movie everyday all week,and we saw it everyday it showed. I recall the robot would only obey the first voice that gave him a command. Little Johnny spoke into the transmitter/watch, "giant robot start to move". That's how little Johnny took control of the robot, I mean, that's why it would only obey him. It's nice to know that there's others out there who have the same childhood nostalgia. It's kind of funny how you remember movies that you saw when you were a kid. I recall lots of them, but when I had the chance to view them again as an adult, they had lost their childhood charm. Lots of them had some occultist overtones, Inframan, bedknobs and broomsticks,etc. We used to buy tickets for the upcoming summer vacation. It had all the movies that they were going to show for the summer, they punched the ticket every time you saw a movie.
Review of Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot
