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Attack from Space is a 1965 science fiction compilation film produced for American television. It is the third film, following Atomic Rulers of the World (1 and 2) and Invaders from Space (3 and 4), to be comprised from the six installments of the Japanese short film series Super Giant from Shintoho.
Whereas Takeo Nagamatsu's 1930 kamishibai The Golden Bat (Ōgon Batto) was Japan's first modern superhero (and had many manga, anime and film adaptations), Shintoho's Super Giant was the first celluloid superhero (theatrically released in 1957), and the role model for many Japanese superheroes to come, especially Ultraman and Kamen Rider.
The 9 Super Giant films were purchased for distribution to U.S. television and edited into 4 films by Walter Manley Enterprises and Medallion Films. The 2 original Japanese films which went into Atomic Rulers of the World (Super Giant and Super Giant Continues) were 49 minutes and 53 minutes in duration.
The 9 Super Giant films were purchased for distribution to U.S. television and edited into 4 films by Walter Manley Enterprises and Medallion Films. The 2 original Japanese films which went into Invaders from Space (The Mysterious Spacemen's Demonic Castle and Earth on the Verge of Destruction) were 48 minutes and 39 minutes in duration.
The nine Super Giant films were purchased for distribution to U.S. television and edited into four films by Walter Manley Enterprises and Medallion Films. The three original Japanese films which went into Evil Brain from Outer Space (The Space Mutant Appears, The Devil's Incarnation and Kingdom of the Poison Moth) were 45 minutes, 57 minutes, and 57 minutes in duration respectively.
Starman, a 1984 science fantasy film starring Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen Starman, 1986–87 television series (based on the 1984 film of the same name), starring Robert Hays and Christopher Daniel Barnes; Super Giant, a 1950s Japanese superhero, called "Starman" in America
The following are lists of films produced in Japan in the 1960s: List of Japanese films of 1960; List of Japanese films of 1961; List of Japanese films of 1962; List of Japanese films of 1963; List of Japanese films of 1964; List of Japanese films of 1965; List of Japanese films of 1966; List of Japanese films of 1967; List of Japanese films of ...
Whereas Super Giant (Starman) is Japan's first celluloid superhero, debuting in movies in 1957, [5] it was Moonlight Mask (Gekko Kamen) who set the standard as Japan's first live-action TV superhero, and was a huge success with children. Television was new in Japan, so many children who did not have a TV set were gathered around to watch it at ...