🎬🛸 Battle In Outer Space zapped screens on this day in 1959. Aka The Great Space War is a 1959 Japanese science fiction action film directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. The slow-motion, gravity-stricken walk of the cast on the Moon was an idea from actor Yoshio Tsuchiya. Actor Ryo Ikebe uncharacteristically protested, declaring it was “just a movie” at the idea of the slow-motion walk. However, Ishiro Honda ended up siding with Tsuchiya. The incident did not sour Ikebe, though, who worked again with Honda a few years later on Gorath (1962). When Apollo 11 landed on the Moon on July 20, 1969, ten years after this film was released, Eiji Tsuburaya watched the “Great Leap for Mankind” on live television. Shortly afterwards, he later told Sadamasa Arikawa, “We were right, our special effects team did a great job. Now, we can hold our heads before the public.” Boxoffice magazine rated the film highly, hailing it a “science-fiction adventure drama on a grand scale... and spectacular special effects... can be exploited to attract the youngsters and mature action fans in huge numbers. Like similar Japanese-made thrillers, ‘Rodan’, ‘H-Man’ and ‘The Mysterians’ (all produced by Toho), this can pay off boxoffice-wise if exhibitors stress the amazingly realistic trick photography of flying saucers, moon exploration and a full-scale attack on U.S. cities which results in skyscrapers being destroyed, etc...” and makes note of the film’s “explosive action, of which there is plenty, particularly in the climactic battle...” Boxoffice also cited Shinichi Sekizawa’s “imaginative screenplay.” —Wikipedia ⁣—classic sci-fi is most awesome... sometimes it strives for realism like this flick… seen this groovy gem a few times, innovative for its time…fans? .⁣ .⁣ .⁣ .⁣ .⁣ #Forbiddenfutures ⚛︎ #Oddness___ ⚛︎ #Scifimovies ⚛︎ #Slashers ⚛︎ #Space ⚛︎ #Spaceart ⚛︎ #Spaceopera ⚛︎ #Spaceship ⚛︎ #Spacestation ⚛︎ #Stanleykubrick ⚛︎ #Startrek ⚛︎ #Starwars ⚛︎ #Surreal ⚛︎ #Trippy ⚛︎ #Ufo ⚛︎ #Vhs ⚛︎ #Vintagebooks ⚛︎