The Mysterians
From The Grindhouse Cinema Database
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The Mysterians (1957, Japan) is a Kaiju film directed by Ishirō Honda.
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- Featured in: Toho Pack Box Set
- Included in: Colossal Creatures from Japan: Kaiju Cinema Classics
Main Details
- Released on December 28, 1957 (Japan)
- Color
- Running Time: 89 min | Japan:88 min | USA:85 min
- Production Co: Toho Company
- Distribution Co: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1959) (USA) (theatrical) (dubbed)
- Directed by Ishirō Honda
- Written by Shigeru Kayama, Takeshi Kimura, Jojiro Okami
- Starring Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Momoko Kôchi
- Produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka
- Original Music by Akira Ifukube
- Cinematography by Hajime Koizumi
- Film Editing by Koichi Iwashita
Plot Summary
- Shortly after a giant robot destroys a village, aliens from outer space arrive offering friendship. Will the people of Earth tie these two events together?
Also Known As
- Weltraum-Bestien (Austria / Germany)
- Aris enantion Gis (Greece) (reissue title)
- Defence Force of the Earth
- Earth Defense Force
- Eisvoli apo ti Selini (Greece
- Los Hijos del volcán (Spain)
- Iptamenoi diskoi htypoun ti Gi (Greece) (reissue title)
- Jorden anfalles (Sweden)
- I Misteriani (Italy) | Mysterianie (Poland)
- Phantom 7000 (Germany)
- Prisonnière des Martiens (France)
Taglines
- They come from another World...They want 3 kilometres of land-and...FIVE of your WOMEN!
- Space monsters invade the Earth!
- Join mankind's most treacherous battle for survival!
- From behind the moon they come... To invade the earth! Abduct its women! Level its cities.
- The Greatest Science-Fiction Picture Ever Conceived By the Mind of Man.
