Published
Culver City, CA : Sony Pictures Home entertainment Columbia Pictures, [2009].
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (261 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN
9781435937987, 1435937988
Notes
General Note
Originally released as motion pictures in 1959, 1960 and 1961.
General Note
Special features: Commentaries on Battle in outer space and Mothra with authors & Japanese Sci-Fi historians Steve Ryfle & Ed Godziszewski.
Creation/Production Credits
[The H-man]: Photography, Hajime Koizumi ; director of special effects, Eiji Tsuburaya ; music, Masaru Sato.
Creation/Production Credits
[Battle in outer space]: Photography, Hajime Koizumi ; edting, Kazuji Taira ; Director of special effects, Eiji Tsuburaya ; music, Akira Ifukube.
Creation/Production Credits
[Mothra]: Photography, Hajime Koizumi ; edting, Ichiji Taira ; music, Yuji Koseki ; director of special effects, Eiji Tsuburaya.
Participants/Performers
[The H-man]: Yumi Shirakawa, Kenji Sahara, Akihiko Hirata, Eitaro Ozawa, Koreya Senda, Mitsuru Sato.
Participants/Performers
[Battle in outer space]: Ryo Ikebe, Kyoko Anzai, Minoru Takada, Koreya Senda, Len Stanford, Harold Conway, George Whitman, Elise Richter, Hisaya Ito, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Hiro-O Kirino, Kozo Nomura, Fuyuki Murakami.
Participants/Performers
[Mothra]: Jelly Ito, Ken Uehara, Yumi Ito & Emi Ito (The Peanuts), Takashi Shimura, Seizaburo Kawazu, Kenji Sahara, Akihiko Harata, Yoshio Kosugi, Yoshibumi Tajima, Yasushi Yamamoto, Haruya Kato, Ko Mishima, Tetsu Nakamura.
Description
[The H-man]: Police experts investigating sordid drug dealings are stumped when crooks vanish leaving only their clothes behind. No-nonsense Inspector Tominaga (Akihiko Hirata) refuses to give credence to the radical theory of scientist Dr. Masada (Kenji Sahara): radioactivity has transformed six sailors into H-Men, liquid beings that dissolve other humans for food. Alluring nightclub singer Chikako Arai (top-billed Yumi Shirakawa, star of The Mysterians) gets involved because her boyfriend is one of the gangsters thought to have disappeared -- or been liquefied. Two sailors' tale of encountering "living liquid" monsters on a derelict ship is presented in a spooky flashback. The authorities remain unconvinced -- until the H-Men invade Chikako's nightclub, melting gangsters and detectives alike!
Description
[Battle in outer space]: Agile jet-job flying saucers oppose Earth's Defense Force fighter rockets in the stratosphere, in orbit and on the dark side of the moon. After a worldwide spate of bizarre disasters -- train wrecks, flooding, etc. -- the United Nations traces the nefarious acts to alien forces called "Natalians". Twin rocket ships are launched from a Japanese space center to investigate what might be an enemy base on the lunar surface. The expedition barely escapes from flying saucers launched from Natal's base of operations, the Mother Ship. Worse, a member of the expedition has been brainwashed by the space enemies, and telepathically commanded to sabotage the UN spaceships.
Description
[Mothra]: A scientific team is dispatched to investigate a mysterious radioactive island thought to be uninhabited. It now supports a population of sad, reclusive natives. Dr. Sinichi Chujo (Hiroshi Koizumi) meets the tribe's tiny twin "Shobijin" fairies (Yumi & Emi Ito, aka "The Peanuts", a singing duo very popular in Japan). The tiny women communicate telepathically. Stowaway reporter Senichiro Fukuda (Frankie Sakai) befriends the fairies, but sneaky Rolisican gangster-entrepreneur Clark Nelson (Jerry Ito) secretly returns to the island, murders a number of natives and kidnaps the Shobijin to sing in a stage show back in Tokyo. Official efforts fail to force Nelson to relinquish the tiny girls. They tell Senichiro that they are sad, not for themselves, but for Tokyo: Mothra will come to their rescue. And indeed, as the natives back on Infant Island dance, a giant egg hatches an equally monstrous larval moth, which immediately sets sail for the Japanese capitol.
Target Audience
Not rated by MPAA.
System Details
DVD, anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1), NTSC, region 1.
Language
Diaglogue in English and Japanese with English subtitles.
Language
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.