The Mysterians

Dec 28, 1957

1h 29m

★ 6.4

Space weapons mobilize! A great battle between Earth forces and the gruesome mystery planet people, the Mysterians!

Overview

In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire village to vanish, then send a giant robot out to storm the city by night, after which they request a small patch of land on Earth and the right to marry earthling women, claiming to be pacifists. Mankind must decide whether to capitulate or to resist.

Genres

Science Fiction

Action

Drama

Thriller

War

Production Companies

TOHO

Far East Laboratory

The Mysterians Trailers

Cast

Joji Atsumi

Kenji Sahara

Etsuko Shiraishi

Yumi Shirakawa

Ryoichi Shiraishi

Akihiko Hirata

Hiroko Iwamoto

Momoko Kôchi

Leader of the Mysterians

Yoshio Tsuchiya

Dr. Tanjiro Adachi

Takashi Shimura

Cmdr. Sugimoto

Yoshio Kosugi

Gen. Morita

Susumu Fujita

Dr. Nobu Kawanami

Fuyuki Murakami

Police Capt. Miyamoto

Yutaka Sada

Army Capt. Seki

Hisaya Itō

Dr. Koda

Tetsu Nakamura

The film is a graphic depiction of the war atrocities committed by the Japanese at Unit 731, the secret biological weapons experimentation unit of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. The film details the various cruel medical experiments Unit 731 inflicted upon the Chinese and Soviet prisoners at the tail-end of the war.

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