Warning From Space

Warning from Space or Mysterious Satellite(å®?å®?人東京に現ã?ã??,UchÅ«jin Tokyo ni arawaru?, Spacemen Appear in Tokyo) is a 1956 science fiction tokusatsu film produced by Daiei, and the first Japanese science-fiction film produced in color. The plot of the American English-dubbed version is somewhat similar to Toho's later Gorath(å¦?æ??ã?´ã?©ã?¹,Yosei Gorasu?) (1962), depicting a planet â?? "Planet 'R'" â?? on a collision course with Earth. Warning from Space has one-eyed, starfish-shaped aliens from the planet Paira who take on human forms to warn the earth about the impending disaster. In contrast to the usual anti-nuclear message of the Japanese science-fiction film genre, Warning from Space seemingly takes the position that nuclear weapons can be put to good use, as a means to prevent the collision with Planet 'R.' The Pairan aliens were designed by prominent avant-garde artist, Taro Okamoto. Walt Lee reports that Gentaro Nakajima's novel, on which this film was based, was in turn based on the Japanese...This information was automatically generated from Freebase article Warning From Space. You should replace/update it...