Yusei oji (1959)

User Rating:

1.7/10   

Director:

Eijirô Wakabayashi

Writers:

Masaru Igami (story)
Shin Morita (writer)

Release Date:

19 March 1959 (Japan)

Genre:

Action | Sci-Fi

Plot:

When an alien force tries to invade Earth to steal a powerful new rocket fuel, a mysterious hero intervenes.

Plot Keywords:

Space | Alien | Superhero | Alien Invasion | B Movie

Cast

Tatsuo Umemiya	...	Wally / Prince of Space / Planet Prince (as Tatsuya Umemiya)
Ushio Skashi
Joji Oka	...	Phantom of Krankor (as Johji Oka)
Hiroko Mine
Takashi Kanda
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ken Sudoh
Nobu Yatsuna

Also Known As:

Invaders from the Spaceship (USA) (alternative title)
Prince of Space (USA)
The Star Prince (USA)

Runtime:

121 min | USA:85 min (DVD version) | 57 min (part 1) | 64 min (part 2)

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Company:

Toei Company

Trivia:

Like Shintoho's Super Giant/Starman series, this Toei production was released to theaters as a sort of mini-serial with two approximately hour long episodes. In the United States this was edited into a single feature film running less than 90 minutes.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: After Krankor threatens to kill one of the boys, he is allowed to escape. As he starts to run up the stairs he was standing on and out of the room, the boy he had threatened to kill, who was standing next to him, starts briefly to follow him up the stairs and then realizes he's supposed to stay where he is and stops.

Quotes:

Johnny: What's the matter with you, Mickey? This might be dangerous!
Mickey: I'm not afraid. If you are, go on home.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Prince of Space (#9.16)" (1997)

The definitive Japanese cheesy sci-fi space film.

This cheapo, cheesy, trashy, Japanese space 'epic' is absolutely without a doubt one of the worst movies ever. The pure badness of this film will leave you in awe. Really. Instead of leaving it in Japan, Belucchi (Is that how you spell it?) Productions (Italian accent!!) hired some guys off the street to dub this film, they must have been paid about $3.00 in the end. The dubbing is so terrible, your mouth will hang open. But the thing that really defines the whole fiasco isn't the bad dubbing, or cheap special effects, or terrible acting, it's Krankor. This has to be the STUPIDEST villain in film history. Instead of heading the message "Your weapons are useless against me" (The famous line spouted by our "hero" around 600 times) he stands around in his chicken suit trying to act scary. You haven't seen nothing until you've seen this. It is the DEFINITIVE Japanese bad sci-fi movie, I guarantee it!