Sci-fi alert! Classic science fiction discoveries are getting rare these days, which makes Arrow’s rejuvenation of Japan’s first science fiction tale in color such a special item. Fans may need both hands to count the ‘copycat’ elements but Kôji Shima’s epic improves on many of its American predecessors. Despite the star-shaped arts ‘n’ crafts aliens, this well-directed First Contact tale has impressive special effects at the service of a surprisingly mature and thoughtful storyline.
Warning from Space
Blu-ray
Arrow Films US
1956 / Color / 1:37 Academy / 87 min. (Japan), 88 min. (U.S. TV) / Street Date October 13, 2020 / Uchûjin Tôkyô ni arawaru (Spacemen Appear in Tokyo) / Available from Arrow Films / 39.95
Starring: Keizô Kawasaki, Toyomi Karita, Mieko Nagai, Shôzô Nanbu, Bontarô Miake, Kanji Kawahara, Kiyoko Hirai, Isao Yamagata, Sachiko Meguro, Fumiko Okamura, Shikô Saitô, Tetsuya Watanabe, Bin Yagisawa.
Cinematography: Kimio Watanabe
Film Editor: Toyo Suzuki
‘Color Designer’: Taro Okamoto
Original Music: Seitarô Ômori...
Warning from Space
Blu-ray
Arrow Films US
1956 / Color / 1:37 Academy / 87 min. (Japan), 88 min. (U.S. TV) / Street Date October 13, 2020 / Uchûjin Tôkyô ni arawaru (Spacemen Appear in Tokyo) / Available from Arrow Films / 39.95
Starring: Keizô Kawasaki, Toyomi Karita, Mieko Nagai, Shôzô Nanbu, Bontarô Miake, Kanji Kawahara, Kiyoko Hirai, Isao Yamagata, Sachiko Meguro, Fumiko Okamura, Shikô Saitô, Tetsuya Watanabe, Bin Yagisawa.
Cinematography: Kimio Watanabe
Film Editor: Toyo Suzuki
‘Color Designer’: Taro Okamoto
Original Music: Seitarô Ômori...
- 9/29/2020
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
In the 1950s, while the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States heightened the threat of nuclear war, storytellers and filmmakers attempted to capture the mood of the times within their works. With the images of the atom bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima on everyone’s mind especially the science-fiction genre emphasized the catastrophic outcome of nuclear technology which can be seen in works like Ishiro Honda’s “Godzilla” and Robert Wise’s “The Day the Earth Stood Still”. Especially the former sparked a plethora of similar stories and resulted in a boom for the genre, with many Japanese studios wanting their share of the success of Honda’s feature. In 1956, Daei released “Warning from Space, directed by Koji Shima, a feature that was met with negative reviews upon release, but has been a source of inspiration for other filmmakers, such as Stanley Kubrick.
- 9/27/2020
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
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