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Warning from Space

Original title: Uchûjin Tôkyô ni arawaru
  • 1956
  • Unrated
  • 1h 27m
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4.7/10
1.2K
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Warning from Space (1956)
UFOs are seen around Tokyo. Because they look like giant starfish the aliens cannot approach us without creating panic. Hence one of them sacrifices itself and takes the form of a popular female singer. It/she warns mankind that a meteor will crash on Earth. While the approaching meteor causes hotter and hotter weather, mankind runs and builds a last-chance anti-meteor weapon.
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UFOs are seen around Tokyo. Because they look like giant starfish the aliens cannot approach us without creating panic. Hence one of them sacrifices itself and takes the form of a popular fe... Read allUFOs are seen around Tokyo. Because they look like giant starfish the aliens cannot approach us without creating panic. Hence one of them sacrifices itself and takes the form of a popular female singer. It/she warns mankind that a meteor will crash on Earth. While the approaching... Read allUFOs are seen around Tokyo. Because they look like giant starfish the aliens cannot approach us without creating panic. Hence one of them sacrifices itself and takes the form of a popular female singer. It/she warns mankind that a meteor will crash on Earth. While the approaching meteor causes hotter and hotter weather, mankind runs and builds a last-chance anti-meteo... Read all

  • Director
    • Kôji Shima
  • Writers
    • Jay Cipes
    • Gentaro Nakajima
    • Hideo Oguni
  • Stars
    • Keizô Kawasaki
    • Toyomi Karita
    • Bin Yagisawa
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.7/10
    1.2K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Kôji Shima
    • Writers
      • Jay Cipes
      • Gentaro Nakajima
      • Hideo Oguni
    • Stars
      • Keizô Kawasaki
      • Toyomi Karita
      • Bin Yagisawa
    • 45User reviews
    • 46Critic reviews
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 3 wins

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    Keizô Kawasaki
    • Dr. Toru Itsobe
    Toyomi Karita
    • Hikari Aozora…
    Bin Yagisawa
    • No. 2 Pairan
    Shôzô Nanbu
    • The Elder Dr. Itsobe
    Bontarô Miake
    • Dr. Kamura
    Mieko Nagai
    • Taeko Kamura
    Kiyoko Hirai
    • Mrs. Matsuda
    Isao Yamagata
    Isao Yamagata
    • Dr. Matsuda
    Fumiko Okamura
    Fumiko Okamura
    • Japanese Bar' Ucyû-ken' Madam Ohana
    Toshiyuki Obara
    • News Reporter Hoshino (USA)…
    Shikô Saitô
    • Mystery Man
    Frank Kumagai
    Kanji Kawahara
    • Dr. Takashima
    Shô Natsuki
    Shunji Tsuda
    Gai Harada
    Tetsuya Watanabe
    • Sankichi - Camera Enthusiast
    Koh Sugita
    • News Reporter
    • Director
      • Kôji Shima
    • Writers
      • Jay Cipes
      • Gentaro Nakajima
      • Hideo Oguni
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    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      The enormous popularity of Toho's giant monster films led Daiei to issue publicity stills showing the Pairans as gigantic creatures that towered over buildings. In the film, the Pairans are human sized.
    • Goofs
      Misspelt newspaper headline at 53:23. ¨Planet R visable¨ instead of ¨visible.¨
    • Quotes

      Japanese Bar' Ucyû-ken' Madam Ohana: A scientist is not like a politician who can answer every question.

    • Alternate versions
      The U.S. English dubbed version titled "Warning From Space" (1956) is quite faithful to the original Japanese version. However, at the final fade-out an additional sequence is added showing Ginko (Toyomi Karita) transforming from the human form back to the Pairan form. They simply took the transformation sequence, showing Ginko transforming into the human form, from earlier in the film and printed it in reverse.
    • Connections
      Edited into Muchachada nui: Episode #1.3 (2007)
    • Soundtracks
      Tankô bushi (aka: Coal mine tune)
      (Fukuoka prefecture folk song)

      At a banquet of workers

    User reviews45

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    6/10
    People's of Earth UNITE...Danger is at hand
    Aliens, from the planet Paila, and Earthlings work together to prevent the Earth from being destroyed by a runaway planet, Planet R, from another galaxy in this early Japanese Sci-Fi movie released in 1956 with the American title "Warning from Space".

    The Pairans who's planet Paila is on the other side of the sun and undetected from the eyes of earth's astronomers sends a fleet of space ships to earth to get the people of that planet to join with them to prevent the rogue planet R from slamming into earth and destroying not only earth but the entire solar system including the planet Paila. The Pairans looking like star fish with an eyeball on their stomachs have one of them Ginko, Toyomi Karita, morphs into the popular Japanese singer Hikari Aozora, and make contact with the earthlings on the dangers they they as well as the Pairans are facing.

    At first the leaders of earth don't, as usual, take Ginko's warnings seriously. But when the planet begins to get closer to earth they finally do and muster all the nuclear weapons that the earth's superpowers have together to shoot into space and blast the streaking planet off course. The attempt fails miserably and as Planet R gets closer to earth it causes death and destruction by unleashing giant tidal waves and great changes in the weather. All seems lost until Ginko tells the earthlings that only Prof. Kamura can save them with his formula for the destructive super-nuclear element Duriun. Which earlier in the movie Ginko took from Prof. Kamura and destroyed because it was too dangerous for anyone, much less those on earth, to have.

    Ginko tells the people of earth that with getting the formula for Duriun from Prof. Kamura and together with the Pairans advanced technology to militarize and deliver it to the Planet R in order to knock it off it's course it will save the solar system but there's just one hitch, were is Prof. Kamura?

    You have to forgive the cheap special effects since the movie was made almost fifty years ago before the invention of computer enhanced photography but the story and the acting in the movie "Warning from Space" is much better then you would have expected. It's also interesting to note that the movie was made in Japan the only country that was ever nuked and the story was about using nuclear weapons for survival instead of destruction.
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    • Release date
      • January 29, 1956 (Japan)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Language
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
      • Asalto a la tierra
    • Production companies
      • Toho Company
      • Daiei Studios
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 27 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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