Uchû Kaisokusen

1961
1h 15m

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2.1/10

2.8K

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Shin'ichi Chiba, Mitsue Komiya, and Ryûko Minakami in Uchû Kaisokusen (1961)

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Clumsy invaders from Neptune are thwarted by hero Space Chief and a nondescript group of microshort-wearing Japanese kids.Clumsy invaders from Neptune are thwarted by hero Space Chief and a nondescript group of microshort-wearing Japanese kids.Clumsy invaders from Neptune are thwarted by hero Space Chief and a nondescript group of microshort-wearing Japanese kids.

Director
- Kôji Ohta
Writers
- Shin Morita
- Akihiro Watanabe
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IMDb RATING

2.1/10

2.8K

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Shin'ichi Chiba in Uchû Kaisokusen (1961)

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Trivia
Many of the invasion scenes in Tokyo were edited from an earlier Toei tokusatsu epic, Dai-sanji sekai taisen: Yonjû-ichi jikan no kyôfu (1960). The appearance of a giant billboard of Adolf Hitler has led some viewers to believe that the stock footage is taken from documentary footage of World War II Japan, which it wasn't.

Connections
Featured in Chiller Theatre: Invasion of the Neptune Men (1974)

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1/10

There is no joy anymore

Remember "Prince of Space"? MST3K # 816? Okay. This is basically a remake of that. Instead of Prince of Space, though, we get Space Chief, another effeminent, hopping hero. Instead of the chicken-men of Krankor, we get mute, bullet-headed robots who have trouble walking and fall down at the tiniest hint of danger. And instead of two annoying, gravely voiced, tiny-shorts-wearing kids we get SIX annoying, gravely voiced, tiny-shorts-wearing kids. Slow the whole thing down, add lots of scenes of Japanese people talking in poorly lit rooms, and actual war footage instead of special effects, and you've got one of the worse movies ever made. I know that phrase is over-used and has little or no impact anymore, but this movie really is almost unbearable. It's amazing! It's joyless, depressing, AND technically inept!

Enjoy the Hitler building.

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