The Mysterians (1957)

Not Recommended

Japan

Feature Film

Original Title: 地球防衛軍

Director: Honda Ishirō

Writers: Kimura Takeshi, Kayama Shigeru, Okami Jojiro

Cinematographer: Koizumi Hajime

Composer: Ifukube Akira

Cast: Sahara Kenji, Shirakawa Yumi, Kōchi Momoko, Hirata Akihiko, Shimura Takashi, Fujita Susumu, Ito Hisaya, Tsuchiya Yoshio, George Furness, Harold Conway

When aliens, whose own planet has been destroyed by nuclear war, land in Japan, demanding a small piece of land and some earth women with whom to rebuild their race, the powers of the world decide against a peaceful approach and determine to rid the planet of these invaders, in this generally diverting piece of science fiction, which suffers somewhat from several rather drawn out action sequences and a few cheesily didactic moments. Iain.Stott