Last Active: Today Threads: 46 Posts: 777 Reputation: 52 #2. Would love it if one of you guys had them! Warning From Space is not a particularly amazing film, but it is very entertaining in its quaint cheesiness. Warning from Space is a decidedly us-versus-them story, where Japan, amid a looming global catastrophe as a rogue planet enters a collision course, cannot convince anyone to save all of existence. Warning from Space is a great classic science fiction film and Arrow Video has given it a quality release. The first Japanese science fiction film to be made in color, Koji Shima s Warning From Space features eye-popping special effects from the same team at Daiei Studios that would bring Gamera to life a decade later. However, it’s a much more interesting film than many give it credit for. Warning From Space by ultragoji2. Warning from Space is both a respected piece of sci-fi and, sadly, also mocked due to the aliens’ appearance as starfish-like creatures. WARNING FROM SPACE – Astronomers discover an extraterrestrial satellite orbiting in space, pounding Earth’s surface with thousand of meteorites. This movie won awards for ‘Best Visual Effects’, ‘Sound’, and ‘Cinematography’ at the Asia-Pacific, too. The 6 SWS mission is to surveil air and space … This poignant sci-fi spectacular delivers on striking images and engaging ideas. The Warning from Space (宇宙人東京に現わる, Uchūjin Tokyo ni arawaru?, lit. "A-z Movie Subtitles" Director Koji Shima was a fast-rising star in his field—with a ‘Best Film’ award at the Asia-Pacific Film Festival in 1954, and an entry in the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. It takes that long for the Pairan’s to turn up on screen that by the time they do appear I was over the moon that something had finally happened. Warning from Space is slow with very little happening. Looking at Warning From Space now, compared to many science-fiction films that have come since, the film does seem kind of slow, and moves with a leisurely pace that might put some people off. The first Japanese science fiction film to be made in color, Koji Shima s Warning From Space features eye-popping special effects from the same team at Daiei Studios that would bring Gamera to life a decade later. The star-shaped aliens are inspired (love that they're just guys in cloth bags). Aliens from the planet Paira arrive on Earth to warn mankind that Earth's impending doom is at hand. The story drifts along, each scene feeling rather disconnected from the one before. Spacemen Appear in Tokyo) is a 1956 tokusatsu kaiju film created by Daiei. It’s not a great film, but it is a good one, and not at all campy once you get past the starfish pyjama suits. You have to start with the aliens here, as Warning From Space sports one of the silliest-looking alien races the world has ever known – starfish people from a planet directly opposite Earth (on the far side of the sun). The acting in this one is what you would expect from 1950’s Japanese cinema. Warning From Space definitely has its problems, but the lame nature of the whole project makes it fun to watch (if you're a bad movie lover, anyway). Space Chief. The 6th Space Warning Squadron (6 SWS), located at Cape Cod Air Force Station in Sagamore, Massachusetts, is a geographically separated unit of Space Delta 4, Buckley Air Force Base, Colorado. UFOs over Tokyo hold huge starfish aliens that terrify humans, so an alien takes the form of a female pop singer to warn of a meteor headed for Earth. The scattershot nature of the plot and human behavior in general is enough to have you laughing out loud. With plastic costumes and duct tape a-plenty, Warning from Space was the first COLOR science fiction flick made in Japan. It is a ground-control and data-processing system the Space Force is developing for its future missile warning satellites, the Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared. But Warning from Space is the farthest thing from "prestigious" or "respectable". While its characters are thin, the film’s vast scope negates this as a problem. This isn’t a bunch of people with ping pong balls over their eyes and … (REQ) Warning From Space. Mar 24, 2021, 20:39 pm . It was a very well put together and entertaining sci-fi flick that did remind me of some of the 1950 Universal Monster Movies in a way. Buy This Title. As well as running film consultancy The Next Day Agency, James is also the Festival Director of the Chinese Visual Festival in … 1 Plot 2 Staff 3 Cast 4 Appearances 4.1 Weapons, Vehicles, and Races 5 … Warning From Space (Blu-ray Disc) : "The first Japanese science fiction film to be made in colour, Koji Shima's Warning From Space features eye-popping special effects from the same team at Daiei Studios that would bring Gamera to life a decade later. However, at the final fade-out an additional sequence is added showing Ginko (Toyomi Karita) transforming from the human form back to the Pairan form. There's a few fun and stupid moments (that tennis scene). The first Japanese science fiction film to be made in colour, Koji Shima's Warning From Space features eye-popping special effects from the same team at Daiei Studios that would bring Gamera to life a decade later. Either way, we have provide simple details guide on how to add or use this subtitle file(s) on your Media Player with the movie - Warning from Space (1956). The meteors turn out to be flying saucers, transporting bizarre alien creatures who carry with them a desperate message for the world’s leaders. Ryne Barber. The film is, instead, an earnest and slow-paced fable about nuclear disarmament, made by people who seemed to genuinely find the subject worth talking about, even if they had to use aliens to do it. Thanks to Arrow Video, it can be fully appreciated with a presentation that’s not perfect, but certainly bests its dollar bin counterparts. The U.S. English dubbed version titled "Warning From Space" (1956) is quite faithful to the original Japanese version. It wasn’t the last, but the film - as silly as it is - also produces some memorable images thanks to the arrival of UFOs as they skirt across the deepest of nights above Tokyo. 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