Invaders from Space

{{More footnotes needed|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox film |name = Invaders from Space |image = Invaders from Space.JPG |caption = Opening titles |director = [[Teruo Ishii]] |producer = Mitsugi Okura |writer = Ichiro Miyagawa |starring = [[Ken Utsui]] |music = |cinematography = |editing = |distributor = Walter Manley Enterprises Inc. |released = {{Film date|1964}}<ref>Galbraith IV, Stuart (1994). Japanese Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. McFarland. {{ISBN|0-89950-853-7}}.</ref> |runtime = 78 minutes (U.S.) |country = [[Japan]] |language = English (dubbed) |budget = }} '''''Invaders from Space''''' is a 1964 film edited together for American television from films #3 and #4 of the 1957 Japanese short film series ''[[Super Giant]]''.

==Plot== The story involves the superhero Starman who is sent by the Emerald Planet to protect Earth from the Salamander Men of the planet Kulimon in the Moffit galaxy who plan to destroy Earth.

==American adaptation== The 9 ''Super Giant'' films were purchased for distribution to U.S. television and edited into 4 films by Walter Manley Enterprises and Medallion Films. The 2 original Japanese films which went into ''Invaders from Space'' (''The Mysterious Spacemen's Demonic Castle'' and ''Earth on the Verge of Destruction'') were 48 minutes and 39 minutes in duration. The two films were edited into one 78-minute film, resulting in a total of 9 minutes being cut from the two films during the re-editing. Also, most of the original music was replaced by library cues.

==DVD release== ''Invaders from Space'' is currently available on DVD. [[Something Weird Video]] with [[Image Entertainment]] released the film and another Starman film, ''[[Atomic Rulers of the World]]'' on a single disc on December 10, 2002.

== See also == * ''[[Super Giant]]'' * ''[[Atomic Rulers of the World]]'' * ''[[Attack from Space]]'' * ''[[Evil Brain from Outer Space]]''

==References== {{Reflist}} *Ragone, August. ''THE ORIGINAL "STARMAN": The Forgotten Supergiant of Steel Who Fought for Peace, Justice and the Japanese Way'' Originally published in ''Planet X Magazine'', included in [[Something Weird Video]]'s [[DVD]] release.

== External links == * {{IMDb title|id=0048957|title=Invaders from Space}} * {{Internet Archive film|id=InvadersFromSpace1965|name=Invaders from Space}}

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