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| Invaders from Space | |
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| Directed by | Teruo Ishii |
| Written by | Ichiro Miyagawa |
| Produced by | Mitsugi Okura |
| Starring | Ken Utsui |
| Distributed by | Walter Manley Enterprises Inc. |
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Running time | 78 minutes (U.S.) |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | English (dubbed) |
Invaders from Space is a 1964 film edited together for American television from films #3 and #4 of the 1957 Japanese short film seriesSuper Giant.
The story involves the superhero Starman who is sent by the Emerald Planet to protect Earth from the Salamander Men of the planet Kulimon in the Moffit galaxy who plan to destroy Earth.
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 intoInvaders from Space (The Mysterious Spacemen's Demonic Castle andEarth on the Verge of Destruction) were 48 minutes and 39 minutes in duration. The two films were edited into one 78-minute film, resulting in a total of 9 minutes being cut from the two films during the re-editing. Also, most of the original music was replaced by library cues.
Invaders from Space is currently available on DVD.Something Weird Video withImage Entertainment released the film and another Starman film,Atomic Rulers of the World on a single disc on December 10, 2002.
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