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The Mysterians (1957)
Directed by Ishirō Honda
“Space weapons mobilize! A great battle between Earth forces and the gruesome mystery planet people, the Mysterians!”
Science Fiction, Action, Drama, Thriller, War · 1h 29m
In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire village to vanish, then send a giant robot out to storm the city by night, after which they request a small patch of land on Earth and the right to marry earthling women, claiming to be pacifists. Mankind must decide whether to capitulate or to resist.
Cast
Kenji Sahara
Joji Atsumi
Yumi Shirakawa
Etsuko Shiraishi
Akihiko Hirata
Ryoichi Shiraishi
Momoko Kôchi
Hiroko Iwamoto
Yoshio Tsuchiya
Leader of the Mysterians
Takashi Shimura
Dr. Tanjiro Adachi
Yoshio Kosugi
Cmdr. Sugimoto
Susumu Fujita
Gen. Morita
Fuyuki Murakami
Dr. Nobu Kawanami
Yutaka Sada
Police Capt. Miyamoto
Hisaya Ito
Army Capt. Seki
Tetsu Nakamura
Dr. Koda
Crew
- Director
- Ishirō Honda
- Screenplay
- Takeshi Kimura
- Director of Photography
- Hajime Koizumi
- Original Music Composer
- Akira Ifukube
- Editor
- Kôichi Iwashita
- Producer
- Tomoyuki Tanaka
Details
- Original title
- 地球防衛軍
- Release date
- 1957-12-28
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- Genres
- Science Fiction, Action, Drama, Thriller, War
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese, English
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- TOHO, Far East Laboratory