BATTLE IN OUTER SPACE-1959-In 1965
Earth is invaded by aliens from the planet Natal with a base on the
moon. They use an anti-gravity machine and some kind of mind control
as their main weapons. Earth holds a world conference in Japan. The
invaders make a guy in a turban do sabotage but when he's thwarted
he's disintegrated by a UFO. It's decided Earth will send two manned
rockets to the moon. One headed by Japanese Dr. Adachi (Koreya Senda;
also in THE H-MAN) and the other by Dr. Richardson (Len Stanford in
his only film role apparently), a white guy. After some hi-jinx in
space like one guy who doesn't even know about weightlessness and
crew member Iwamura (Yoshio Tsuchyia from many other Toho productions
and Kurosawa films) almost sabotaging the mission after his mind is
taken over, both ships land on the moon. The crews investigate and
discover some short aliens who capture Etsuko (Kyoko Anzai), the
female crew member. They also make Iwamura destroy one of the ships
but he comes to his senses in time and sacrifices his own life so the
second ship can go back to Earth and come up with a solution to the
invasion. There are lots of toy effects.
The Adachi character had
also appeared earlier in THE MYSTERIANS. Many Godzilla "hands" were in this, not the least being the great Ishiro Honda who directed this fun Toho production which was
distributed on a double bill in the US by Columbia pictures. mind
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