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Rating: 7.5 stars

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shout! factory godzilla ghidorah rodan Aliens spaceship space exploration Japan dubbed Kaiju tokusatsu

All movies seen on 07/18/2015

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Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)

Directed by Ishirō Honda

Science Fiction | Adventure | Action

Most recently watched by sensoria, lordofthemovies, Javitron

Overview

Astronauts Glenn and Fuji investigate Planet X and encounter mysterious aliens known as the Xiliens, who ask Earth’s people to help save their world from “Monster Zero”.  In exchange for borrowing Godzilla and Rodan, the Xiliens offer a cure for cancer. As Glenn investigates, he develops a romance with Miss Namikawa and uncovers the Xilien’s true intentions.

Rated G | Length 96 minutes

Actors

Nick Adams | Akira Takarada | Keiko Sawai | Kumi Mizuno | Jun Tazaki | Akira Kubo | Yoshio Tsuchiya | Takamaru Sasaki | Gen Shimizu | Kenzô Tabu | Yoshifumi Tajima | Haruo Nakajima | Masaki Shinohara | Shôichi Hirose | Gorō Naya | Toki Shiozawa | Nadao Kirino | Kôji Uno | Tôru Ibuki | Kazuo Suzuki | Fuyuki Murakami | Noriko Sengoku | Someshô Matsumoto | Kamayuki Tsubono | Yasuhisa Tsutsumi | Rinsaku Ogata | Masaaki Tachibana | Yutaka Oka | Saburô Iketani | Yoshizo Tatake | Mitsuo Tsuda | Ryôji Shimizu | Minoru Itô | Takuzô Kumagai | Tadashi Okabe | Hideki Furukawa

Viewing History (seen 5 times)

Viewing Notes

Today Shout! Factory TV ran their Kaiju Movie Marathon event for 24 hours starting at midnight last night. It was hosted by August Ragone who intro’d each movie with some cool facts. Ultra Q and Ultra 7 episodes were also injected between the Godzilla movies. I caught a little of those as well as little of King of Monsters and Mothra vs Godzilla.

Came home after the Japan Day event to watch Monster Zero (the American version of this movie) and Godzilla’s Revenge after it. Super easy to get sucked into these movies for me especially coming off a weekend of G-FEST. Probably the neatest thing was all the people following along and tweeting as they watched. Normally I’m opposed to this behavior but know that most of the audience has seen these films numerous times I was okay with this as it enhanced the experience reading what people were saying about the movies.

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