Spacemen Appear in Tokyo) also known as Unknown Satellite Over Tokyo and The Cosmic Man Appears in Tokyo is a 1956 Japanese daikaiju eiga (giant-monster movie) about aliens named The Pairans coming to earth and destroying Tokyo. Starfish aliens, a planet hurtling towards Earth, and mankind divided on what to do; this is 1956’s Warning from Space. UFOs over Tokyo hold huge starfish aliens that terrify humans, so an alien takes the form of a female pop singer to warn of a meteor headed for Earth. Hence one of them sacrifices itself and takes the … Reviewed in Canada on November 5, 2020 This classic Japanese Science-Fiction film (which was an influence on Stanley Kubrick for 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY - at least it's one film he had vivid memories of) is probably not for everyone. On April 29, the Chinese Long March 5B rocket brought the first module of the future Tiangong space station into orbit, strongly desired by the Beijing government. Empty cities, earthquakes, tsunamis (well, who knows them better than the japanese people?). About the author James Mudge From Glasgow but based in London, James has been writing for a variety of websites over the last decade, including BeyondHollywood in the US and YesAsia in Hong Kong. Warning from Space is available now on Blu-ray from Arrow Video. While its characters are thin, the film’s vast scope negates this as a problem. Warning from Space is a decidedly us-versus-them story, where Japan, amid a looming global catastrophe as a rogue planet enters a collision course, cannot convince anyone to save all of existence. Because they look like giant starfish the aliens cannot approach us without creating panic. "Warning from space" produces a convincing atmosphere of increasing danger. For example: The collision is said to be happening in 50 days and the people are ordered to go to the shelter IMMEDIATELY? UFOs are seen around Tokyo. Some lacks of credibility have to be admitted. 5.0 out of 5 stars The first decent print - ever - of WARNING FROM SPACE! From the opening moments, when we meet two friends at an eating bar, Warning From Space evokes thoughts of George Pal’s 1953 classic The War Of The Worlds. Lights are seen in the sky, meteorites appear to fall to earth, and eventually strange creatures emerge and terrify the populous. The carrier rocket, once it finished its task, began its fallout towards the Earth. Warning from Space uses the expected twirling newspaper headlines, but the heart of the story is carried by dozens of brief scenes spread across Japan, in dozens of ‘ordinary life’ situations. Warning From Space WARNING FROM SPACE – Astronomers discover an extraterrestrial satellite orbiting in space, pounding Earth’s surface with thousand of meteorites. 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