Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers

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.

Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers
Theatrical release poster
Japanese空飛ぶ円盤恐怖の襲撃
HepburnSoratobu Enban: Kyōfu no Shūgeki
Directed byShinichi Sekizawa
Screenplay byShinichi Sekizawa
Starring
CinematographySadao Uemura
Music bySatoshi Kusagawa
Production
company
Kokumotsu films
Distributed byShintoho
Release date
November 7, 1956 (Japan)
Running time
79 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

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

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][lower-alpha 1]

See also

Notes
  1. IMDb referred to Yoshiyuki Kuroda as the special effects supervisor.

References
  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.
  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. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: others (link)
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