Director: Koji Shima
Notable Cast: Keizo Kawasaki, Toyomi Karita, Bin Yagisawa,
Shozo Nanbu, Bontaro Miake, Mieko Nagai
It’s no secret that WWII changed cinema and how audiences
reacted to it. There are a small mountain of books, articles, and authors that
really dig into the boom of creature features and science fiction that erupted
throughout the 1950s and 1960s, so that will not be the intention of this
review to explore those facets beyond this introduction. It is a trend and
approach to genre filmmaking that becomes important to this article, focused on
the film Warning from Space, the 1956 Japanese science fiction romp from
Daiei Studios.