Battle in Outer Space

Original title: Uchû daisensô

1959
Approved
1h 30m

IMDb RATING

5.6/10

1.6K

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The nations of the Earth unite in a common cause to fight off an invader from outer space.

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The nations of the Earth unite in a common cause to fight off an invader from outer space.The nations of the Earth unite in a common cause to fight off an invader from outer space.The nations of the Earth unite in a common cause to fight off an invader from outer space.

Director
- Ishirô Honda
Writers
- Shin'ichi Sekizawa
- Jôjirô Okami
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

5.6/10

1.6K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Ishirô Honda
Writers
- Shin'ichi Sekizawa
- Jôjirô Okami
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 nomination

Etsuko Shiraishi
(as Kyoko Anzai)

Minoru Takada

The Commander

Koreya Senda

Professor Adachi

Len Stanford

Dr. Roger Richardson

Harold Conway

Dr. Immerman
(as Harorudo Konwei)

Elise Richter

Sylvia
(as Erisu Rikutâ)

Hisaya Itô

Kogure
(as Hisaya Ito)

Yoshio Tsuchiya

Iwomura

Nadao Kirino

Gravity Man
(as Hiro-o Kirino)

Kôzô Nomura

Rocket Commander
(as Kozo Nomura)

Fuyuki Murakami

Inspector Iriake

Ikio Sawamura

Lantern Man

Takuzô Kumagai

Alien
(as Jirô Kumagai)

Katsumi Tezuka

Alien
(as Katsumx Tesuka)

Mitsuo Tsuda

Air General
(as Mitsuo Isuda)
…

Tadashi Okabe

Newscaster…

Osman Yusuf

Bystander
(as Osuman Yusefu)

Director
- Ishirô Honda
Writers
- Shin'ichi Sekizawa
- Jôjirô Okami
All cast & crew
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Trivia
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.

Goofs
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.

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

Connections
Featured in Aweful Movies with Deadly Earnest: Battle in Outer Space (1966)

Soundtracks
Burlesque-style Rondo
Composed by Akira Ifukube

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Featured review

A fun movie, worth seeing

Saw this when I was 11 years old, I recall the rocket fighters sent up by the Earth Forces are based on the X-15 rocket plane. One thing I remember-and it moved me at the time, and is one of the movie's strengths-is the scene where the earth space ships go past the area where the space station was destroyed-and you see the bodies of the crew. The action moves at a brisk pace, no long winded speeches or philosophizing. The SFX are pretty good for the time. As a side issue, I got a chuckle when I saw "Star Wars" in 1977, I recognized the "futuristic weapons" as being models of British Lee Enfields, German MG-42 machine guns, Heckler & Koch submachine guns.