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*'''''The Chicken-Lizard from Mars''''' (''A Galinha-Lagarto de Marte''; Portugal) | *'''''The Chicken-Lizard from Mars''''' (''A Galinha-Lagarto de Marte''; Portugal) | ||
*'''''Itoka, The Monster of the Galaxies''''' (''Itoka, le monstre des galaxies''; France) | *'''''Itoka, The Monster of the Galaxies''''' (''Itoka, le monstre des galaxies''; France) | ||
*'''''A Monster in Space''''' (''Un monstruo en el espacio''; Mexico) | |||
==Theatrical releases== | ==Theatrical releases== |
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MANKIND THREATENED BY A DEADLY NUCLEUS FROM THE VAST VOID OF SPACE
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The X from Outer Space (宇宙大怪獣ギララ is a Uchū Daikaijū Girara, lit. Giant Space Monster Guilala)1967 tokusatsu kaiju film produced by Shochiku Company Ltd. It was released to Japanese theaters on March 25, 1967, and to American television syndication via American International Television in 1968. Shochiku would revive the Guilala character for the 2008 film Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit.
Plot
The spaceship AAB Gamma is dispatched from Japan to land on Mars and investigate reports of UFOs in the area. When the Gamma nears the red planet, it finds a mysterious UFO that begins to coat the Gamma with unusual spores. One of these spores is taken back to Earth, but begins to develop.
The spore grows into a giant lizard/chicken-like alien monster called Guilala that begins a rampage across Tokyo. It spits fireballs, feeds on nuclear fuel, turns into a giant energy ball when it wants to fly, and destroys airplanes and tanks along its rampage. The monster is finally defeated by jets dropping bombs, coating Guilala in a fictional substance known as "Guilalanium" that causes it to shrink back down to spore size. They promptly launch the spore back into space, where it will supposedly circle the sun in an endless orbit.
Staff
Staff role on the left, staff member's name on the right.
- Directed by Kazui Nihonmatsu
- Written by Eibi Motomochi, Moriyoshi Ishida, Kazui Nihonmatsu
- Executive Producer Wataru Nakajima
- Music by Taku Izumi
- Cinematography by Shizuo Hirase
- Edited by Yoshi Sugihara
- Special Effects by Hiroshi Ikeda
Cast
Actor's name on the left, character played on the right.
- Shun'ya Wazaki as Captain Sano
- Itoko Harada as Michiko
- Shin'ichi Yanagisawa as Miyamoto
- Keisuke Sonoi as Doctor Shioda
- Hiroshi Fujioka as Moon Station Correspondent A
- Eiji Okada as Doctor Kato
- Peggy Neal as Lisa (Japanese voice actor: Reiko Muto)
- Franz Gruber as Doctor Berman (Japanese voice actor: Tamio Oki)
- Mike Daneen as Doctor Stein (Japanese voice actor: Teiji Omiya)
- Ryuji Kita
- Takanobu Hozumi as FAFC Technical Officer
- Toshiyuki Watanabe as FAFC Operator
- Torahiko Hamada as Kimura
- Oya Mitsuru
- Daisuke Nakako
- Teruo Sudo
- Sonosuke Oda as Moon Station Correspondent B
- Jun Kashima
- Koji Nakada as Director General of the Metropolitan Police Agency
- Kamon Kawamura as Substation Staff
- Hideaki Komori
- Jun Yamanaki
- Akimitsu Kawashima
- Shuichi Oki
- Kenji Sonoda
- Hideki Kato
- Teruko Higa
- Etsuko Miyama
- Tadaharu Sato
- Wataru Nakajima as Defence Agency Director
AITV dub
Actor's name on the left, character played on the right.
- Robert Sommer as Captain Sano
- Susan Spafford as Lisa
- Mel Welles as Doctor Berman
- Edward Mannix as Doctor Stein
Appearances
Monsters |
Weapons, vehicles, and races
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Gallery
- Main article: The X from Outer Space/Gallery.
Soundtrack
- Main article: The X from Outer Space (Soundtrack).
Alternate titles
- Giant Space Monster Guilala (Literal Japanese title)
- Guilala, The Space Monster (Guilala, O Monstro do Espaço; Brazil)
- Alert in Space (Uzbuna u Svemiru; Yugoslavia)
- Guila - Frankenstein's Devil Egg (Guila - Frankensteins Teufelsei; West Germany)
- The Chicken-Lizard from Mars (A Galinha-Lagarto de Marte; Portugal)
- Itoka, The Monster of the Galaxies (Itoka, le monstre des galaxies; France)
- A Monster in Space (Un monstruo en el espacio; Mexico)
Theatrical releases
- Japan - March 25, 1967
- Czechoslovakia - 1968
- France - April 12, 1969
- Mexico - 1970
- West Germany - July 13, 1972
Video releases
Orion Video VHS (1989)
- Audio: English (AITV dub)
The Criterion Collection DVD (2012)[1]
- Region: 1
- Discs: 4
- Audio: Japanese (2.0 Mono), English (2.0 Mono, international dub)
- Special features: Essays on the films by Chuck Stephens
- Notes: Packaged with Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell, The Living Skeleton, and Genocide.
- Region: N/A
- Audio: Japanese (Mono), English
Videos
Trailers
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Miscellaneous
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Trivia
- Early drafts for the film featured gigantic monstrous plants as the antagonists, before Guilala was created to replace these abandoned creatures.[4]
- Special effects footage from this film was later re-used for the 1984 Japanese comedy Tora-san's Forbidden Love, the thirty-fourth entry in the popular long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series, and was likely done as a satirical dig at that same year's more obvious kaiju movie release, The Return of Godzilla.
- In the 2017 Hulu produced documentary Too Funny To Fail, which discusses the hopeful rise and disastrous fall of The Dana Carvey Show, footage of Guilala rampaging through the city while chasing after the fleeing human masses was briefly used to visually represent the public's negative reaction to the series' premier episode.
External links
References
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