Attack from Space

Infobox_Film
name = Attack from Space


caption = DVD cover for Alpha Video's release of "Attack from Space" (1964)
director = Teruo Ishii
producer = Mitsugi Okura
writer = Ichiro Miyagawa
starring = Ken Utsui
music =
cinematography =
editing =
distributor =Walter Manley Enterprises Inc.
released = 1964
runtime = 76 min. (USA)
language = English (dubbed)
budget =
preceded_by = "Invaders from Space"
followed_by = "Evil Brain from Outer Space"
imdb_id = 0230832|

"Attack from Space" is a 1964 film edited together for American television from films #5 and #6 of the Japanese short film series "Super Giant".

Plot

The superhero Starman is sent by the Emerald Planet to protect Earth from belligerent aliens from the Sapphire Galaxy. The Sapphireans (or "Spherions") kidnap Dr. Yamanaka and force him to use his spaceship against the Earth.

American adaptation

The 9 "Super 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 into "Attack from Space" ("The Artificial Satellite and the Destruction of Humanity " and "The Spaceship and the Clash of the Artificial Satellite") were each 39 minutes in duration. The two films were edited into one 76-minute film, resulting in only 2 lost minutes in the combined edit. As a result, this film suffered least among the "Super Giant" films in its adaptation for American television. Although Riichiro Manabe composed the music to the original two films, most of the original music was replaced by library tracks in the American adaptation.

DVD releases

"Attack from Space" is currently available on two DVD releases. Something Weird Video with Image Entertainment released the film and the other Starman film, "Evil Brain from Outer Space" on a single disc on December 10, 2002. Alpha Video also released a budget-priced disc of the film by itself on March 23, 2004.

See also

* "Super Giant"

External links

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References

*Ragone, August. "THE ORIGINAL "STARMAN"; the Forgotten Supergiant of Steel Who Fought for Peace, Justice and the Japanese Way" Originally published in Planet X Magazine, included in Something Weird Video's DVD release.