Battle in Outer Space

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Battle in Outer Space

Battle in Outer Space (1959)
Directed by Ishirô Honda
Produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka
Written by Jojiro Okami
Shinichi Sekizawa
Starring Ryo Ikebe
Kyôko Anzai
Koreya Senda
Minoru Takada
Leonard Stanford
Harold Conway
Yoshio Tsuchiya
Music by Akira Ifukube
Cinematography Hajime Koizumi
Editing by Kazuji Taira
Distributed by Toho
Release date(s) December 26, 1959 (Japan)
July 8, 1960 (USA)
Running time 93 min.
90 min. (USA)
Language Japanese
English
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Battle in Outer Space, released in Japan as Uchū Daisen'sō (宇宙大戦争?), is a tokusatsu film produced and released by Toho Studios in 1959. The film was made by Toho's legendary Godzilla directing/special effects/producing team of Ishirô Honda, Eiji Tsuburaya, Tomoyuki Tanaka, and composer Akira Ifukube.

It is a loose a sequel to The Mysterians, jumping ahead several years into the future (1965) where Etsuko Shiraishi and Dr. Adachi, among others, are now heavily involved in the Earth Defence Force. Rather than having the Mysterians return to Earth, however, a new , more sinister race was created: the Natals.

[edit] U.S. release

Lobby card to the 1960 US release of Battle in Outer Space
Lobby card to the 1960 US release of Battle in Outer Space

Battle in Outer Space was released in America by Columbia Pictures in July of 1960. New York Times film critic Howard Thompson gave the film a mixed, but generally positive review, stating, "The plot is absurd and is performed in dead earnest... Some of the artwork is downright nifty, especially in the middle portion, when an earth rocket soars to the moon to destroy the palpitating missile base. And the Japanese have opened a most amusing and beguiling bag of technical tricks, as death dealing saucers whiz through the stratosphere of the lunar landscape is just as pretty as it can be."

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[edit] References

Thompson, Howard. "Battle in Outer Space" in The New York Times. July 9, 1960. (film review)

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