The Mysterians

Chikyû Bôeigun

Japan

1957

89 Min

Color

2.35:1

Japanese, English

Currently 3.0/5 Stars.
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SCR Shigeru Kayama, Takeshi Kimura, Jojiro Okami

CAST Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Momoko Kōchi, Akihiko Hirata, Takashi Shimura, Susumu Fujita, Hisaya Ito

ANIM Eiji Tsuburaya, Akira Watanabe

Aliens arrive on Earth and ask permission to be given a certain tract of land for their people to live on. But when they are discovered to be invaders, responsible for the giant robot that is destroying cities, the armed forces attempt to stop them with every weapon available. —IMDb

Director

Ishirô Honda

Ishirō Honda (本多猪四郎 Honda Ishirō), sometimes miscredited in foreign releases as “Inoshiro Honda”, (May 7, 1911 in Yamagata Prefecture – February 28, 1993) was a Japanese film director. His early film career included working as an assistant under the famed director, Akira Kurosawa.

Alongside his film duties, he was drafted into the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II in China and was a prisoner there when the war ended.

He is probably best known for his tokusatsu films including several entries in the Godzilla series. He directed the original Godzilla along with King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962), Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964), All Monsters Attack (1969) and many others until 1975. He also directed such tokusatsu films such as Rodan and Mothra. His last feature film was Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975).

The following years were spent directing various sci-fi TV shows. The superhero shows Return of Ultraman, Mirrorman and Zone Fighter were also his. In addition, he… read more