Battle in Outer Space
From The Grindhouse Cinema Database
Battle in Outer Space (1959, Japan) is a Science Fiction film directed by Ishiro Honda.
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Main Details
- Released in 1959
- Color
- Running Time: 90 Min | 96 Min (orig cut)
- Production Co: Toho Company
- Distribution Co: Columbia Film-Verleih (1960) (West Germany) (theatrical)/Columbia Pictures Corporation (1960) (UK) (theatrical)/Columbia Pictures Corporation (1960) (USA) (theatrical)/Toho Company (1959) (Japan) (theatrical)
- Directed by Ishiro Honda
- Written by Shin'ichi Sekizawa
- Starring Ryô Ikebe, Minoru Takada, Koreya Senda, Hisaya Itô, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Fuyuki Murakami
- Produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka
- Music by Akira Ifukube
Taglines
- The Moon is Captured! The Earth is Next...The Biggest Battle Ever Put on Film!
- HERE COME THE PLANET SMASHERS! (original U.S. print ad - all caps)
- SPACE DECLARES WAR ON EARTH - OUTLAW PLANET CAPTURES THE MOON! (original ad - all caps)
- SEE! Space-shaking last battle of earth rockets vs. flying war saucers!
- Space Wages War on Earth!
- SEE! The Flying War-Saucer Invasion smashed with the invisible speeps!
- SEE! Space saboteurs juggle earth's bridges...ships...trains...life toys!
- SEE! Earth's minds controlled by rays from outer space!
