Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers

Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers
Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Shinichi Sekizawa
Screenplay by	Shinichi Sekizawa
Starring	Tadao Takashima; Junko Ebata; Shigeru Amachi; Junji Masuda; Taiji Tonoyama;
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

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 and produced by Kokumotsu films.

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]

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]^[a]

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. Heisei 9 [1997]. ISBN 978-4-7669-2706-1. OCLC 39959591. Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: others (link)

External links[]

Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers at Letterboxd

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[1] 『映画秘宝』June 2010 Issue

[2] 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.

[scifijapan-3] Miyano, Oki; Aiken, Keith (24 May 2007). "TV Movie Details Actor Tadao Takashima's Battle with Depression". SciFi Japan. Retrieved 28 June 2019.

[4] Nihon tokusatsu gensō eiga zenshū. Keibunsha, 勁文社. (Shohan ed.). Tōkyō: Keibunsha. Heisei 9 [1997]. ISBN 978-4-7669-2706-1. OCLC 39959591. Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: others (link)

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