Battle in Outer Space, released in Japan as Great Space Battle (宇宙大戦争, Uchū Daisensō) is a tokusatsu film produced and released by Toho Studios in Japan in 1959, and distributed world-wide (sans Far East Territories) in 1960 by Columbia Pictures. The screenplay was written by Shinichi Sekizawa (from a story by Jojiro Okami) and was brought to the screen by Toho's well-known kaiju eiga specialists, Ishirô Honda, Eiji Tsuburaya, Tomoyuki Tanaka, an...
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Battle in Outer Space, released in Japan as Great Space Battle (宇宙大戦争, Uchū Daisensō) is a tokusatsu film produced and released by Toho Studios in Japan in 1959, and distributed world-wide (sans Far East Territories) in 1960 by Columbia Pictures. The screenplay was written by Shinichi Sekizawa (from a story by Jojiro Okami) and was brought to the screen by Toho's well-known kaiju eiga specialists, Ishirô Honda, Eiji Tsuburaya, Tomoyuki Tanaka, and composer Akira Ifukube.
Battle in Outer Space is a loose sequel to The Mysterians (1957), jumping ahead several years to 1965, when Etsuko Shiraishi and Dr. Adachi, among others, are now heavily involved in the United Nations Space Research Center in Tokyo. Rather than have the Mysterians return to Earth for this sequel, a new, more sinister race was created: The Natal, diminutive and aggressive beings who wield powerful anti-gravity weapons and mind-control devices.
After a series of unearthly and devastating incidents in Japan, Italy and...
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