Teruo Ishii
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Japanese film director, born in 1924. Known for yakuza films, horror, and exploitation cinema. Directed the Super Giant films that were edited into Attack from Space (1965) for American television. He died in 2005.
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A 1965 science fiction compilation film produced for American television from installments of the Japanese Super Giant film series by Shintoho. Starman (Ken Utsui), the steel-bodied champion of the Emerald Planet's Peace Council, comes to Earth to stop the alien Meropolitans, whose agents have infiltrated the planet and plan to destroy it with a super-weapon. The original Japanese films were edited and dubbed by Walter Manley Enterprises for American syndication, with the hero renamed from Super Giant — the same treatment that produced Attack from Space and Evil Brain from Outer Space. The film is in the public domain.
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Atomic Rulers of the World
1965 - Sci-Fi
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A 1965 science fiction compilation film produced for American television from two installments of the Japanese Super Giant film series by Shintoho. The superhero Starman (Ken Utsui), a steel-bodied being created by the Peace Council of the Emerald Planet, is sent to Earth to protect it from belligerent aliens from the Sapphire Galaxy. The Sapphireans kidnap Dr. Yamanaka and force him to use his spaceship against Earth, and it falls to Starman to save the scientist, his family, and the planet. The original Japanese films were edited and dubbed by Walter Manley Enterprises for American syndication, with Starman's character renamed from Super Giant.
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Attack from Space
1965 - Sci-Fi
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A 1965 science fiction compilation film produced for American television from three installments of the Japanese Super Giant film series. The evil genius Balazar from the planet Zemar has been assassinated, but his prodigiously overdeveloped brain has been preserved and now seeks universal conquest, starting with Earth. The High Council of the Emerald Planet sends Starman (Ken Utsui) to defeat Balazar's followers, who are using nuclear weapons and unleashing monsters with deadly diseases. Three self-contained Japanese stories were edited into a single 78-minute film by Walter Manley Enterprises, resulting in what has been called "an alternately mind-blowing and mind-numbing adventure" of nonstop chases, captures, rescues, and fight scenes.
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Evil Brain from Outer Space
1965 - Sci-Fi