The Kaiju Movie that's not one | Warning from Space
1,174Today I look at a film put out by Toho's once rival Studio Daiei. Uchūjin Tokyo ni Arawaru (Spacemen Appear in Tokyo) Released to Japanese cinemas in January 1956. The film has the honor of being the 1st Japanese science fiction movie to be in color, and it shines in that aspect as famous Avant-garde artist Tarō Okamoto was selected to be the color designer of the film, as well as the design the alien beings known as the Pairans. The film was later brought to America in 1964 as a TV Movie under the title Unknown Satellite Over Tokyo. Later it would be renamed Warning from Space.
Sources for information
Arrow Video Blu-Ray Audio commentary by Stuart Galbraith IV
Big Book of Japanese Giant Monster Movies: Showa Completion (1954 -1989)
Essay on artist Taro Okamoto by Japanese art historian Nick West
Essay on the production of the American edit of the film by David Cairns
Japanese Special Effects Cinema: Godfathers of Tokusatsu: Vol. 1
SF: The Japanese Science Fiction Film Encyclopedia
SCIFIST: Warning from Space Essay
Music
Art of Balance - World A, B, and C Music
Sonic Mega Collection Credits Theme
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