Super Giant: The Space Mutant Appears (1958)

	Super Giant: The Space Mutant Appears
	Super Giant: The Space Mutant Appears
Alternate titles	Super Giants Space Mutant Appears (1958); Evil Brain from Outer Space (TV 1964); See alternate titles
Directed by	Akira Mitsuwa
Written by	Akira Mitsuwa,; Ichiro Miyagawa
Music by	Ko Ishimatsu
Distributor	ShintohoJP; Walter Manley Enterprises Inc.US
Running time	45 minutesJP; (0 hours, 45 minutes); 78 minutesUS; (1 hour, 18 minutes)

Super Giant Films

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Super Giant: The Space Mutant Appears (スーパージャイアンツ宇宙怪人出現, Sūpā Jaiantsu Uchū Kaijin Shutsugen, lit Super Giants Space Mutant Appears) is a 1958 tokusatsu kaijin film produced by Shintoho, and the seventh installment in the Super Giant series. The film was released to Japanese theaters on April 29, 1958.

Plot

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Staff

Staff role on the left, staff member's name on the right.

Directed by Akira Mitsuwa
Written by Akira Mitsuwa and Ichiro Miyagawa
Music by Ko Ishimatsu
Cinematography by Hiroshi Suzuki

Cast

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

Ken Utsui as Super Giant

Appearances

Characters and Monsters

Super Giant
Space Mutant

Alternate titles

Evil Brain from Outer Space (United States)
Spacemen Appear

Theatrical releases

Japan - April 29, 1958 [view poster]

U.S. release

American Evil Brain from Outer Space DVD cover

The American companies Walter Manley Enterprises and Medallion Films purchased the rights to the 9 Super Giant films and edited them together into 4 English films for television. Super Giant: The Space Mutant Appears, Super Giant Continues: The Devil's Incarnation, and Super Giant Continues: The Poison Moth Kingdom were edited in to Evil Brain from Outer Space. Since all three of the original films are meant to be standalone stories, three radically different plots had to be combined in to one cohesive story. Within the film, this is often helped along by the narration, which often further explains plot points which would otherwise be left as plot holes. Another large issue in combining the films arose from the fact that Super Giant: The Space Mutant Appears was filmed in black and white and fullscreen, while the remaining two films were filmed in color and widescreen. The final product, as described by kaiju historian August Ragone, is "an alternately mind-blowing and mind-numbing adventure... a non-ending cavalcade of characters, chases, captures, rescues and fight scenes."

DVD Releases

Japanese release

Pioneer LDC (2000)^[1]

Region: 2
Discs: 4
Audio: Japanese

Avex Trucks (2005)^[2]

Region: 2
Discs: 4
Audio: Japanese

U.S. release

Image Entertainment (2002)^[3]

Region: 1
Discs: 1
Audio: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)

Alpha Home Entertainment (2012)^[4]

Region: 0
Discs: 3
Audio: English

Videos

Film

Evil Brain from Outer Space full film

References

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