Battle in Outer Space
(1959)
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Battle in Outer Space
(1959)
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Ryô Ikebe | ... |
Maj. Ichiro Katsumiya
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Kyôko Anzai | ... |
Etsuko Shiraishi
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Koreya Senda | ... |
Professor Adachi
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Minoru Takada | ... |
The Commander
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Leonard Stanford | ... |
Dr. Roger Richardson
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Harold Conway | ... |
Dr. Immerman
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Yoshio Tsuchiya | ... |
Iwomura
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Hisaya Itô | ... |
Kogure
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Nadao Kirino | ... |
Gravity Man
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Fuyuki Murakami | ... |
Inspector Iriake
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Malcolm Pearce | ... |
Dr. Achmed
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Leonard Walsh | ... |
Thomas Sheldon
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Kôzô Nomura | ... |
Rocket Commander
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Ikio Sawamura | ... |
Lantern Man
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Tadashi Okabe | ... |
Newscaster
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Munchkin-like aliens invade Earth full force with their flying saucers and laser weapons, rendering cities helpless. All eyes turn to the most powerful nations on Earth as they unite to concoct a plan to vanquish the aliens and return Earth to the hands of humans, thus, resulting in the most fierce and ultimate battle royale in outer space the galaxy as ever seen. Written by Oliver Chu
Saw this when I was 11 years old, I recall the rocket fighters sent up by the Earth Forces are based on the X-15 rocket plane. One thing I remember-and it moved me at the time, and is one of the movie's strengths-is the scene where the earth space ships go past the area where the space station was destroyed-and you see the bodies of the crew. The action moves at a brisk pace, no long winded speeches or philosophizing. The SFX are pretty good for the time. As a side issue, I got a chuckle when I saw "Star Wars" in 1977, I recognized the "futuristic weapons" as being models of British Lee Enfields, German MG-42 machine guns, Heckler & Koch submachine guns.