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Obayashi stayed stubbornly true to his core pacifist message through more than 40 movies.

"Astronauts would ascend to 20 km by electrical elevator. From the top of the tower, space planes will launch in a single stage to orbit."

The vast globe would float at the surface of the sea, but could be submerged in bad weather, down the centre of a gigantic spiral structure.

A Japanese construction company aims to build an elevator that will reach 96,000 kilometres into space - and it may be ready by 2050.