The War in Space
5.0
“The Space War to Decide the Fate of All Mankind!”
The year is 1988, and in the midst of recovering from a near-miss with a large comet, Earth finds that there are much worse matters at hand: the sudden arrival of a strange army of aliens and their fleet of unstoppable warships.
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Part of The Mysterians Collection
3 films
Cast
37 people
Kensaku Morita
Koji Miyoshi
Known for
The Castle of Sand
Yuko Asano
Jun Takigawa
Known for
Sky of Love
Jun Fukuda
Fumio Tanaka
Michiko Ikeda
Hideichi Nagahara
Ryō Ikebe
Professor Masato Takigawa
Known for
Pale Flower
Early Spring
Ishirō Honda
Also in
Samurai Kids
The Discarnates
Ryûzô Nakanishi
Tomoyuki Tanaka
Toshiaki Tsushima
Masaya Oki
Reikai Muroi
Also in
Toward the Terra
We are angels!
Jun Fukuda Director · Ryuzo Nakanishi Screenplay Hideichi Nagahara Screenplay
Worldwide gross $4M · Budget $2M · United States release April 25, 2006
Box office
Budget
$2,000,000
Worldwide gross
$4,000,000
Gross vs. budget
2.0×
Production
Toho Pictures
Production
Toho Eizo Bijutsu
Production
Tokyo Laboratory
Production
Japan
Produced in
Languages
Original title
惑星大戦争
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
English · Japanese
Release dates
Japan · December 17, 1977
Theatrical
United States · April 25, 2006
Denmark
March 27, 1978 · Theatrical
Finland
August 7, 1978 · Theatrical
France
March 8, 1978 · Theatrical
Germany
January 18, 1978 · Theatrical
Portugal
October 10, 1979 · Theatrical
Spain
July 21, 1978 · Theatrical
Sweden
June 26, 1978 · Theatrical
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