Battle in Outer Space
| Battle in Outer Space | |
|---|---|
| File:Battle in Outer Space.jpg Battle in Outer Space (1959) | |
| Directed by | Ishirô Honda |
| Written by | Jojiro Okami Shinichi Sekizawa |
| Produced by | Tomoyuki Tanaka |
| Starring | Ryo Ikebe Kyôko Anzai Koreya Senda Minoru Takada Leonard Stanford Harold Conway Yoshio Tsuchiya |
| Cinematography | Hajime Koizumi |
| Edited by | Kazuji Taira |
| Music by | Akira Ifukube |
| Distributed by | Toho |
Release dates | December 26, 1959 (Japan) July 8, 1960 (USA) |
Running time | 93 min. 90 min. (USA) |
| Languages | Japanese English |
Battle in Outer Space (宇宙大戦争 - Uchu daisenso), is a tokusatsu film produced and released by Toho Studios in 1959. The film was made by Toho's legendary Godzilla directing/special effects/producing team of Ishirô Honda, Eiji Tsuburaya, Tomoyuki Tanaka, and composer Akira Ifukube.
It is a loose a sequel to The Mysterians, jumping ahead several years into the future (1965) where Etsuko Shiraishi and Dr. Adachi, among others, are now heavily involved in the Earth Defence Force. Rather than having the Mysterians return to Earth, however, a new , more sinister race was created: the Natals.
U.S. release
Battle in Outer Space was released in America by Columbia Pictures in July of 1960. New York Times film critic Howard Thompson gave the film a mixed, but generally positive review, stating, "The plot is absurd and is performed in dead earnest... Some of the artwork is downright nifty, especially in the middle portion, when an earth rocket soars to the moon to destroy the palpitating missile base. And the Japanese have opened a most amusing and beguiling bag of technical tricks, as death dealing saucers whiz through the stratosphere of the lunar landscape is just as pretty as it can be."
External link
References
Thompson, Howard. "Battle in Outer Space" in The New York Times. July 9, 1960. (film review)
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