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Chikyû Bôeigun
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Release Date:
15 May 1959 (USA) See more »
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Tagline:
They come from another World...They want 3 kilometres of land-and...FIVE of your WOMEN! See more »
Plot:
Aliens arrive on Earth and ask permission to be given a certain tract of land for their people to live on... See more » | Add synopsis »
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Cast

  (in credits order)
Kenji Sahara ... Joji Atsumi
Yumi Shirakawa ... Etsuko Shiraishi
Momoko Kôchi ... Hiroko Iwamoto
Akihiko Hirata ... Ryoichi Shiraishi

Takashi Shimura ... Dr. Tanjiro Adachi
Susumu Fujita ... Gen. Morita
Hisaya Itô ... Capt. Seki
Yoshio Kosugi ... Cmdr. Sugimoto
Fuyuki Murakami ... Dr. Nobu Kawanami
Tetsu Nakamura ... Dr. Koda
Yoshio Tsuchiya ... Leader of the Mysterians
Yutaka Sada ... Police Capt. Miyamoto
Ren Imaizumi ... Adachi's Assistant Hayami
Takeo Oikawa ... Announcer on TV
Tadao Nakamaru ... 1st Lt. Yamamoto
George Furness ... Dr. Svenson
Harold Conway ... Dr. DeGracia
Haruya Kato ... Doomed Villager
Senkichi Ômura ... Doomed Villager
Shin Ôtomo ... Policeman Kawada
Akio Kusama ... Chief of Police station Togawa
Shôichi Hirose ... Detective in Etsuko's house
Rinsaku Ogata ... Policeman Ogata
Heihachirô Ôkawa ... Person at Board Meeting
Takuzô Kumagai ... Col. Ito (as Jirô Kumagai)
Mitsuo Tsuda ... Person at Defense Meeting
Kamayuki Tsubono ... Person at Defense Meeting
Hideo Mihara ... Gen. Emoto
Yasuhiro Shigenobu ... Doomed Villager
Katsumi Tezuka ... Mysterian
Haruo Nakajima ... Moguera
Byron Morrow ... General (American version)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Rikie Sanjo ... Etsuko's mother
Soji Ubukata ... Dr. Noda
Hideo Unagami ... The mysterian
Minosuke Yamada ... The Secretary of Defense Hamamoto
Ryûtarô Amami ... Policeman (uncredited)
Saburô Kadowaki ... Policeman (uncredited)
Keiichirô Katsumoto ... Detective (uncredited)
Masayoshi Kawabe ... Policeman (uncredited)
Mitsuo Matsumoto ... Reporter of news paper (uncredited)
Jirô Mitsuaki ... Detective (uncredited)
Eisuke Nakanishi ... Detective in Etsuko's House (uncredited)
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Directed by
Ishirô Honda 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Shigeru Kayama  story
Takeshi Kimura 
Jôjirô Okami  story

Produced by
Tomoyuki Tanaka .... producer
 
Original Music by
Akira Ifukube 
 
Cinematography by
Hajime Koizumi 
 
Film Editing by
Kôichi Iwashita 
 
Production Design by
Teruaki Abe 
 
Production Management
Yasuaki Sakamoto .... production manager
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Kôji Kajita .... assistant director
 
Sound Department
Jay Bonafield .... dubbing supervisor: English
Ichirô Minawa .... sound effects
Masanobu Miyazaki .... sound recordist
Carlos Montalbán .... dubbing scenarist: English
Peter Riethof .... dubbing scenarist: English
 
Special Effects by
Hidesaburo Araki .... special effects photographer
Sadamasa Arikawa .... special effects photographer
Eiji Tsuburaya .... director of special effects
Akira Watanabe .... special effects art director
 
Stunts
Haruo Nakajima .... stunt choreographer
 
Other crew
Hiroshi Mukoyama .... combination shots
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
"Chikyû Bôeigun" - Japan (original title)
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Runtime:
89 min | Japan:88 min | USA:85 min
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Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
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2.35 : 1 See more »
Sound Mix:
Perspecta Stereo (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
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Trivia:
Tadao Nakamaru played a first lieutenant in this film. It was his first feature film role in a career that spanned almost 40 years.See more »
Goofs:
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): One of the bicyclist firefighters has a very southern-US accent, when the on-screen actors are obviously Japanese.See more »
Quotes:
Dr. Tanjiro Adachi:Strange things are happening behind the moon!See more »
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Godzilla: Unleashed (2007) (VG)See more »

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10 out of 11 people found the following review useful.
Ifukube's score is the most action packed score ever., 14 February 1999
Author: Guilala from Bridgewater, MA, USA

The Japanese tape begins with an overture. The music with the overture is the greatest film score ever written by Akira Ifukube. So this film concerns hooded aliens who come to Earth with plans to capture and have sex with Earth women. So they release a huge bird-like robot named Mogera (it later returned renovated in Godzilla vs. Space Godzilla) to prove they mean buisness. The army manages to defeat it by booby trapping the bridge and blowing it up while the monster is using it. Then the battle for the cosmos begins with the Mysterians and their ray firing ships and the humans and their markalite lasers. This is another film I believe inspired the film Independence Day. It's certainly the most colorful of any of the fifties invasion flicks. A must. Eiji Tsuburaya also did an exellent job with his marvelous miniatures and special effects.

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