宇宙人東京に現わる (1956)

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Warning from Space is a 1956 Japanese science fiction film directed by Koji Shima. It was written by Hideo Oguni based on Gentaro Nakajima's novel. In the tokusatsu film's plot, starfish-like aliens "Pairan" disguised as humans travel to Earth to warn of the imminent collision of a rogue planet and Earth. As the planet rapidly accelerates toward Earth, a nuclear device is created at the last minute and destroys the approaching world.

Production

After the success of Toho's 1954 film Godzilla, which depicted a giant dinosaur attacking Tokyo, many Japanese film studios began to produce similar monster films, including Warning from Space. Along with other films such as Shintōhō's Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers and the American Forbidden Planet, Warning from Space became part of a fledgling subgenre of films based around science fiction creatures.

The Pairan aliens were designed by Tarō Okamoto, which used a single eye that is common among science fiction aliens. Although official film posters showed the Pairan aliens towering over buildings, the actual cinematic version of the aliens were on the scale of humans, at about two meters. Walt Lee reports that Gentaro Nakajima's novel, on which this film was based, was in turn based on the Japanese folktale Kaguya-hime.

Its plot to depict appearances of extraterrestrials and astronomical object bears similarities to classic productions such as End of the World (1931), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), When Worlds Collide (1951), and The War of the Worlds (1953).

The Japanese title of Warning from Space bears the term "appear" (現わる, arawaru); it had been repeatedly used by Daiei Film at that time including The Invisible Man Appears, the Japanese title of The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, which later influenced the production of Gamera, the Giant Monster, and Gamera-related post-Daiei productions, Giant Monsters Appear in Tokyo by Shochiku, and Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo by Studio Ghibli.

The Invisible Man Appears and Rainbow Man were the first post-war science fiction films in Japan. The two films were also produced under Masaichi Nagata, and involved Eiji Tsuburaya and Sadamasa Arikawa and Shuzaburo Araki in productions; the three participated in these films with their intentions to join Daiei Film, however they eventually returned to Toho and contributed in Godzilla (1954).

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