He was alarmed as he viewed an enormous flat structure orbiting the moon - it was a secret Starfleet shipyard or space-dock.Russell Crowe performed in the role of Superman""s (Kal-El) Kryptonite father Jor-El (played earlier by Marlon Brando), and Michael Shannon portrayed villainous General Zod on Krypton.She told Richard (who arrived with Jason) about her new assignment: "Perry - he just shoved Superman back into my life.Just before the atom bomb was dropped by B-29 bombers to end WWII, one of the camp""s commanders, Ichirō Yashida (Ken Yamamura as youth), frantically freed dozens of captured American soldiers from their cells.