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| Directed by | Teruo Ishii Akira Mitsuwa Koreyoshi Akasaka |
| Starring | Ken Utsui Junko Ikeuchi Shôji Nakayama |
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| Distributed by | Walter Manley Enterprises Inc. |
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Running time | 83 minutes (USA) |
| Countries | Japan United States |
| Language | English (dubbed) |
Atomic Rulers of the World (or justAtomic Rulers) is a 1965 film edited together for American television from films #1 and #2 of the 1957 Japanese short film seriesSuper Giant.
The story involves the superhero Starman (Super Giant in Japan) who is sent by the Emerald Planet to protect Earth from thenuclear holocaust threatened by the country of Metropol.
The 9Super Giant films were purchased for distribution to U.S. television and edited into 4 films by Walter Manley Enterprises and Medallion Films. The 2 original Japanese films which went intoAtomic Rulers of the World (Super Giant andSuper Giant Continues) were 49 minutes and 53 minutes in duration. The two films were edited into one 83-minute film. The original films were two parts of a complete story, but a total of 19 minutes was cut during the re-editing, dropping elements from both films. Also, most of the original music was scrapped and replaced by library cues. The result was a product considerably different from the Japanese originals.
Atomic Rulers of the World is currently available on two DVD releases.Something Weird Video withImage Entertainment released the film and another Starman film,Invaders from Space on a single disc on December 10, 2002. Alpha Video also released a budget-priced disc of the film by itself on June 22, 2004.