The Mysterians (1957)
Original title: 地球防衛軍
The Mysterians is a 1957 Japanese-language science fiction movie directed by Ishirō Honda, with a running time of 1h 29m. It stars Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa and Akihiko Hirata.
In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire village to vanish, then send a giant robot out to storm the city by night, after which they request a small patch of land on Earth and the right to marry earthling women, claiming to be pacifists. Mankind must decide whether to capitulate or to resist.
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Cast
- Kenji Sahara as Joji Atsumi
- Yumi Shirakawa as Etsuko Shiraishi
- Akihiko Hirata as Ryoichi Shiraishi
- Momoko Kôchi as Hiroko Iwamoto
- Yoshio Tsuchiya as Leader of the Mysterians
- Takashi Shimura as Dr. Tanjiro Adachi
- Yoshio Kosugi as Cmdr. Sugimoto
- Susumu Fujita as Gen. Morita
- Fuyuki Murakami as Dr. Nobu Kawanami
- Yutaka Sada as Police Capt. Miyamoto
- Hisaya Ito as Army Capt. Seki
- Tetsu Nakamura as Dr. Koda