Battle in Outer Space

This film was the first Japanese science fiction film which had the original Japanese cast and crew listed on the posters and other advertising material in the United States.

The funniest bits are the gravity antics. When the first scout ship turns off the thrusters and the crew all unfastens their safety belts, one of them flies up to the ceiling. He is so surprised, clearly no-one told this astronaut that there was no gravity in the spacecraft. They help him down and the chief tells him that there is no gravity in the ship. Then they all begin walking around completely normally.

The final 16mm prints struck for U.S. television distribution had the final third of the film letterboxed for the widescreen Tohoscope format.

Featured in It Came from Hollywood (1982)