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==Trivia==
*Early drafts for the film was to feature gigantic monstrous plants as its titular antagonists, before Guilala was created to replace these abandoned creatures.<ref name="">[https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%87%E5%AE%99%E5%A4%A7%E6%80%AA%E7%8D%A3%E3%82%AE%E3%83%A9%E3%83%A9#.E6.A6.82.E8.A6.81]</ref>
*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 probably done as a satirical dig at that same year's more obvious Kaiju movie release, ''[[The Return of Godzilla]]''.


==References==
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The Japanese poster for The X from Outer Space
Directed by Kazui Nihomatsu
Producer Wataru Nakajima
Written by Moriyoshi Ishida
Eibi Motomochi
Kazui Nihonmatsu
Music by Taku Izumi
Distributor Shochiku Company Ltd.JP
American International TelevisionUS
Rating Unrated
Budget ¥???,???,???
Box office ¥???,???,???
Running time 89 minutes
(1 hour, 29 minutes)

The X from Outer Space (宇宙大怪獣ギララTemplate:Whijcs, Uchū Daikaijū Girara, Lit. Giant Space Monster Guilala) is a 1967 tokusatsu Template: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.

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 "Guilalalium" 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   Moriyoshi Ishida, Eibi Motomochi, and Kazui Nihonmatsu
  • Produced by   Wataru Nakajima
  • Assistant Producing by   Akihiko Shimada
  • Music by   Taku Izumi
  • Cinematography by   Shizuo Hirase and Chitora Ôkoshi
  • Edited by   Yoshi Sugihara
  • Special Effects by   Hiroshi Ikeda

Cast

Actor's name on the left, character played on the right.

  • Eiji Okada   as   Doctor Kato
  • Shun'ya Wazaki   as   Captain Sano
  • Toshinari Kazusaki   as   Captain Sano
  • Robert Sommer   as   Voice of Captain Sano
  • Itoko Harada   as   Michiko
  • Peggy Neal   as   Lisa
  • Susan Spafford   as   Voice of Lisa
  • Franz Gruber   as   Doctor Berman
  • Mel Welles   as   Voice of Doctor Berman
  • Mike Daneen   as   Doctor Stein
  • Edward Mannix   as   Voice of Doctor Stein
  • Shin'ichi Yanagisawa   as   Miyamoto
  • Keisuke Sonoi   as   Doctor Shioda
  • Hiroshi Fujioka   as   Moon station correspondent A
  • Sônosuke Oda   as   Moon station correspondant B
  • Ryûji Kita
  • Takanobu Hozumi   as   FAFC Technical Officer
  • Toshiyuki Watanabe
  • Torahiko Hamada   as   Mister Kimura
  • Kenji Sonoda

Appearances

Monsters

Weapons, Vehicles, and Races

Gallery

Main article: The X from Outer Space (1967 film)/Gallery.

Soundtrack

Main article: The X from Outer Space (Soundtrack).

Alternate Titles

  • Giant Space Monster Guilala
  • Guilala, the Space Monster (Guilala, O Monstro do Espaço; Brazil)

Video Releases

Orion Video (1989)

  • Released: 1989
  • Language: English
  • Other Details: 1 tape

Criterion Collection (2012)[1]

  • Released: November 20, 2012
  • Region: Region 1
  • Language: Japanese, English
  • Format: Multiple Formats, Anamorphic, Box set, Black & White, Color, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Other Details: 1.77:1 aspect ratio, 336 minutes run time, 4 discs

Shochiku (2014)[2][3]

  • Blu-Ray
  • Released: December 3, 2014
  • Region: All Regions
  • Language: Japanese (Mono), English
  • Format: Blu-Ray
  • Other Details: 1.78:1 aspect ratio, 94 minutes run time, 1 disc

Videos

Trailers

Trivia

  • Early drafts for the film was to feature gigantic monstrous plants as its titular 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 probably done as a satirical dig at that same year's more obvious Kaiju movie release, The Return of Godzilla.

References

This is a list of references for The X from Outer Space. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]

Films
 
Godzilla films
Showa era
Heisei era
Millennium era
Reiwa era
American films
Short films
 
King Kong films
King Kong (1933) • Son of Kong (1933) • King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) • King Kong Escapes (1967) • King Kong (1976) • King Kong Lives (1986) • The Mighty Kong (1998) • Kong: King of Atlantis (2005) • King Kong (2005) • Kong: Return to the Jungle (2006) • Kong: Skull Island (2017) • Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) • Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)
 
Other Toho films
Shōwa period
Ramayana (1940s) • Invisible Man (1954) • Half Human (1955) • Rodan (1956) • The Mysterians (1957) • The H-Man (1958) • Varan (1958) • The Three Treasures (1959) • Battle in Outer Space (1959) • The Secret of the Telegian (1960) • The Human Vapor (1960) • Mothra (1961) • The Last War (1961) • Gorath (1962) • Matango (1963) • Atragon (1963) • Dogora (1964) • Frankenstein vs. Baragon (1965) • The War of the Gargantuas (1966) • The Killing Bottle (1967) • Latitude Zero (1969) • Konto 55: The Great Outer Space Adventure (1969) • Space Amoeba (1970) • Daigoro vs. Goliath (1972) • Submersion of Japan (1973) • ESPY (1974) • Prophecies of Nostradamus (1974) • The War in Space (1977) • Magnitude 7.9 (1980) • Bye-Bye Jupiter (1984) • Princess from the Moon (1987)
Heisei period
Reiwa period
 
Other Japanese films
Shōwa period
Heisei period
Reiwa period
 
Miscellaneous
Films
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) • The Giant Behemoth (1959) • Gorgo (1961) • Bulgasari (1962) • Gogola (1966) • Space Monster Wangmagwi (1967) • Yongary, Monster from the Deep (1967) • A*P*E (1976) • The Mighty Peking Man (1977) • Pulgasari (1985) • Reptilian (1999) • Cloverfield (2008) • 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) • Colossal (2016) • The Cloverfield Paradox (2018) • Rampage (2018) • Notzilla (2019) • untitled Cloverfield sequel (TBA)
Documentaries
Fan films
Bambi Meets Godzilla (1969) • Gamera 4: Truth (2003) • Waiting for Gorgo (2009) • G vs. G (2019) • Godziban (2019) • Heritage (2020) • Coming Out (2020) • Wolfman vs. Godzilla (TBA)

 
 
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