Super Giant: The Space Mutant Appears (1958)
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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
TBA
Staff
- Main article: Super Giant: The Space Mutant Appears/Credits.
Staff role on the left, staff member's name on the right.
- Directed by Akira Mitsuwa
- Written by Akira Mitsuwa and Ichiro Miyagawa
- Produced by Sosuke Kasane (organizer)
- 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
- Akira Nakamura as Dr. Sakurai
- Tomohiko Otani as Dr. Kurokawa
- Hiroshi Asami as Minoru Kawada
- Den Kunikata as Detective Okamoto
- Hiroshi Maki as Policeman A
- Kyoji Murayama as Policeman B
- Masao Takamatsu as Yamanaka, Prime Minister
- Yoshijuro Suzuki as Satomi, Minister of Justice
- Hiroshi Maki as Space Mutant A
- Ryuji Shima as Space Mutant B
Appearances
Characters and Monsters
- Super Giant
- Space Mutant A
- Space Mutant B
Alternate titles
- Evil Brain from Outer Space (United States)
- Spacemen Appear
Theatrical releases
U.S. release
The American companies Walter Manley Enterprises and Medallion Films purchased the rights to the nine Super Giant films and edited them together into four 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 into Evil Brain from Outer Space. Since all three of the original films were meant to be standalone stories, three radically different plots had to be combined in to one cohesive story. Within the film, this was 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."
Video 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
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