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Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers (Japanese: 空飛ぶ円盤恐怖の襲撃, Hepburn: Soratobu Enban Kyōfu no Shūgeki) is a 1956 independently made Japanese tokusatsu science fiction film directed and written by Shinichi Sekizawa.
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| Japanese | 空飛ぶ円盤恐怖の襲撃 |
| Hepburn | Soratobu Enban Kyōfu no Shūgeki |
| Directed by | Shinichi Sekizawa |
| Screenplay by | Shinichi Sekizawa |
| Starring |
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| Cinematography | Sadao Uemura |
| Music by | Satoshi Kusagawa |
Production company | Kokumotsu films |
| Distributed by | Shintoho |
Release date | November 7, 1956 (Japan) |
Running time | 79 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
The film was considered lost until a 16mm cut was found in 2010 and sold for auction online for 2.1 million yen.[1][2] Plans were made for a DVD release following the auction, though they have yet to materialize.[2]
Plot
During the Cold War, flying saucers from the M87 Nebula attacked cities around the world. The rocket R1 produced as a secret weapon by Dr. Hoshina, an authority on space science, challenges the disk that destroys the city by rejecting the attack of the Self-Defense Forces together with the mysterious robot.
Cast
- Tadao Takashima as Masao Hayashi[3]
- Junko Ebata as Kaoru Hoshina
- Shigeru Amachi as Assistant Osugi
- Hiroshi Sugi as Dr. Hoshina
- Junji Masuda as Dr. Kuroi
- Taiji Tonoyama as Dr. Otsuki
Production
The film was Shinichi Sekizawa's first and only role as a director after working as an assistant director for Hiroshi Shimizu and special effects by Sadao Uemura and Shigeji Nishitani.[4][lower-alpha 1]
See also
Notes
- IMDb referred to Yoshiyuki Kuroda as the special effects supervisor.
References
- 『映画秘宝』June 2010 Issue
- Tokusatsu hiho. 2 (Gojisshunen showa gamera daitokushu hakken soratobu enban kyofu no shugeki shuku sanju nakano teruyoshi). Yosensha. October 13, 2015. ISBN 978-4-8003-0766-8. OCLC 935088367.
- Miyano, Oki; Aiken, Keith (24 May 2007). "TV Movie Details Actor Tadao Takashima's Battle with Depression". SciFi Japan. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
- Nihon tokusatsu gensō eiga zenshū. Keibunsha, 勁文社. (Shohan ed.). Tōkyō: Keibunsha. 1997. ISBN 978-4-7669-2706-1. OCLC 39959591.
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External links
- Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers at IMDb
- Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers at Letterboxd
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