# Still another help ID the movie thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 9, 2011, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-another-help-id-the-movie-thread/581217 "2011-05-09T00:31:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2011, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-another-help-id-the-movie-thread/581217/1 "2011-05-09T00:31:30Z")
I saw this film on television at least ten years ago, and I’m sure it wasn’t new. It was a Japanese sci-fi film, dubbed into English. There were at least three Western actors who were main characters, a middle-aged guy and two young people, a man and a woman. Those two were friends with a Japanese guy their age. It was the future, there was space travel. The characters I’ve mentioned each received a sort of golden nut, or acorn, that fell from space and marked them for a quest. They came from a group of people in space who needed help, they were being attacked by some space bad guy. The ones who needed help flew in a space ship that looked like a sailing vessel from Earth. The younger woman was from a rich family, and kind of wild, but she could pilot a personal ship very well. The younger Western man was a kind of ne’er do well. The older Western man had been military, but kicked out, I don’t remember why. He was a good guy though. I’ve tried looking for this but my search skills are limited. I didn’t recognize any of the actors, so I didn’t know their names to help search. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2011, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-another-help-id-the-movie-thread/581217/2 "2011-05-09T01:11:56Z")
[Message From Space](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078435/combined) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2011, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-another-help-id-the-movie-thread/581217/3 "2011-05-09T01:35:58Z")
I looked it up and that’s it! Thanks a lot. Why can’t I find stuff like that? The picture of the ship is even there. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2011, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-another-help-id-the-movie-thread/581217/4 "2011-05-09T01:52:25Z")
It took a little bit of searching, but in the end it was mentioned on TV Tropes under [Space Sailing](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpaceSailing).