The Mysterians (1957)
December 28, 1957Release Date
The Mysterians (1957)
December 28, 1957Release Date


Plot.
Where to Watch.


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Cast & Crew.

Kenji Sahara
Joji Atsumi

Yumi Shirakawa
Etsuko Shiraishi

Akihiko Hirata
Ryoichi Shiraishi

Momoko Kôchi
Hiroko Iwamoto

Yoshio Tsuchiya
Leader of the Mysterians

Takashi Shimura
Dr. Tanjiro Adachi

Yoshio Kosugi
Cmdr. Sugimoto

Susumu Fujita
Gen. Morita

Fuyuki Murakami
Dr. Nobu Kawanami

Yutaka Sada
Police Capt. Miyamoto

Hisaya Ito
Army Capt. Seki

Tetsu Nakamura
Dr. Koda

Sōji Ubukata
Dr. Noda

George Furness
Dr. Svenson

Harold Conway
Dr. De Gracia

Heihachirō Ōkawa
Person at Board Meeting

Ren Imaizumi
Adachi's Assistant Hayami

Rikkie Sanjô
Etsuko's mother

Tadao Nakamaru
1st. Lt. Yamamoto

Hideo Saeki
Gen. Emoto

Takuzō Kumagai
Colonel Ito

Akio Kusama
Police Station Chief Togawa

Shin Ōtomo
Policeman Kawada

Rinsaku Ogata
Policeman Ogata

Takeo Oikawa
Announcer on TV

Mitsuo Tsuda
Person at Defense Meeting

Kamayuki Tsubono
Defense Meeting Attendee

Senkichi Ōmura
Doomed Villager

Haruya Katō
Doomed Villager

Yasuhiro Shigenobu
Doomed villager

Shōichi Hirose
Detective in Etsuko's house

Eisuke Nakanishi
Detective in Etsuko's house

Keiichirô Katsumoto
Detective

Jirô Mitsuaki
Detective

Ryûtarô Amami
Policeman

Saburô Kadowaki
Policeman

Masayoshi Kawabe
Policeman

Mitsuo Matsumoto
Newspaper Reporter

Hideo Unagami
Mysterian

Katsumi Tezuka
Mysterian

Haruo Nakajima
Giant Robot [Script name: Moguera] / Stunts

Ishirō Honda
Director

Jôjirô Okami
Story

Tomoyuki Tanaka
Producer

Akira Ifukube
Original Music Composer

Hajime Koizumi
Director of Photography

Kôichi Iwashita
Editor

Kaeko Sakamoto
Casting

Teruaki Abe
Production Design

Eiji Tsuburaya
Special Effects / Visual Effects / Visual Effects Director

Masanobu Miyazaki
Sound Recordist

Kuichirô Kishida
Lighting Technician

Ichirô Minawa
Sound Effects

Yasuaki Sakamoto
Production Manager

Takeshi Kimura
Screenplay

Shigeru Kayama
Adaptation

Hector Berlioz
Music

Edvard Grieg
Music

Koji Kajita
First Assistant Director

Masakatsu Asai
Special Effects / Special Effects Assistant / Visual Effects / Visual Effects Director

Akira Watanabe
Visual Effects Art Director

Yasuyuki Inoue
Special Effects Assistant / Visual Effects Art Director

Sadamasa Arikawa
Special Effects / VFX Director of Photography

Shuzaburo Araki
Special Effects / VFX Director of Photography

Hiroshi Mukoyama
Visual Effects / Visual Effects Compositor

Masao Shirota
Special Effects / Lighting Technician / VFX Lighting Artist

Yoshio Irie
Special Effects Assistant / Visual Effects Art Director

Takeharu Ikebuchi
Special Effects Assistant / Visual Effects Art Director

Shun Suganuma
Special Effects Assistant

Shun Suganuma
Visual Effects Art Director

Takashi Nakao
Still Photographer / Special Effects Assistant / Visual Effects Camera

Teizô Toshimitsu
Costume Design / Modeling
Media.






Details.
Release DateDecember 28, 1957
Original Name地球防衛軍
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 29m
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
The Mysterians (Japanese: 地球防衛軍, Hepburn: Chikyū Bōeigun, lit. 'Earth Defense Force') is a 1957 Japanese epic science fiction film directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. Produced and distributed by Toho Co., Ltd., it is the first Honda-Tsuburaya collaboration filmed in both color and TohoScope, and stars Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Momoko Kōchi, Akihiko Hirata, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Susumu Fujita, and Takashi Shimura, with Haruo Nakajima and Katsumi Tezuka as Moguera. In the film, Earth's defense forces unite to combat an extraterrestrial race that desires to intermarry with human women and settle on the planet.
Inspired by the success of big-budget science fiction films in Japan and the United States, Toho executives became keen on producing a science fiction epic of their own. Producer Tomoyuki Tanaka recruited science fiction writer Jōjirō Okami to develop the story, which Shigeru Kayama later adapted for Takeshi Kimura's screenplay. Honda stated that three companies were involved in the film's production, which was the most in any tokusatsu production that he directed.
The Mysterians was released theatrically in Japan on December 28, 1957, as a double feature with Sazae's Youth. It was a box office success in Japan upon its release, earning ¥193 million against its ¥200 million budget during its original theatrical run, making it the tenth highest-grossing Japanese film of 1957, and leading Toho to produce two further space-themed science fiction epics: Battle in Outer Space (1959) and Gorath (1962). An English dub of the film was produced by RKO Radio Pictures and distributed in the United States by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on May 27, 1959, where it grossed $975,000 and reportedly received mostly positive reviews. Western film critics praised Tsuburaya's special effects, but some criticized the plot as confusing and juvenile.
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