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Release Date:
15 May 1959 (USA) more
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Tagline:
They come from another World...They want 3 kilometres of land-and...FIVE of your WOMEN! more
Plot:
Aliens arrive on Earth and ask permission to be given a certain tract of land for their people to live on... 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 Ito ... 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
Mitsuo Matsumoto ... Reporter of news paper (uncredited)
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Directed by
Ishirô Honda 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Shigeru Kayama  story
Takeshi Kimura  writer
Jojiro Okami  story

Produced by
Tomoyuki Tanaka .... producer
 
Original Music by
Akira Ifukube 
 
Cinematography by
Hajime Koizumi 
 
Film Editing by
Koichi Iwashita 
 
Production Design by
Teruaki Abe 
 
Production Management
Yasuaki Sakamoto .... production manager
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Koji 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:
Defence Force of the Earth
Earth Defense Force
The Mysterians (USA)
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Runtime:
89 min | Japan:88 min | USA:85 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Perspecta Stereo (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Tôhô Kabushiki Kaisha's first color widescreen special-effects film. 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. more
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Dr. Tanjiro Adachi: Strange things are happening behind the moon! more
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11 out of 11 people found the following review useful.
Japan's Fantasies Finest Hour, 10 November 2005
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Author: xerses13 from United States

We have always enjoyed the early Japanese Fantasy Films circa 1954-1963. During this time they took themselves and there subjects seriously. What ever their technical short comings were you could see they were in earnest. Basically after this period starting with KING KONG -vs- GODZILLA the slide down to kiddy fare began just a step above STARMAN.

Though we consider the original GORJIRA/Godzilla as the first and the best THE MYSTERIANS is the one (1) we enjoyed most. This is a SPACE OPERA on a grand scale. Watching it is like seeing the old pulp Science-Fiction magazine covers of the 1930's being brought to life. Basically the team that acted and made the original Godzilla are back plus the addition of Technicolor and WideScreen. They needed a big and splashy story and THEM -vs- US for the world was the canvas that well suited this first effort.

We first saw it on T.V. in the mid 1960s and were enthralled like any early teenagers by these scenes of action and massed destruction. But even then we (my brother and I) felt something was missing. It was not until the early 1990s that we saw a restored Japanese print in it's original format (WS) and subtitled in English that what happened on screen made sense. Best of all there were more scenes of destruction.

It is a pity that TOHO did not make a direct sequel and made BATTLE IN OUTER SPACE instead (still a fun film). Now that they are more technically adapt it would be nice to see this film remade. The one (1) thing I would keep though (other then the basic plot line) is the exceptional musical score.

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