INVASION OF ASTRO-MONSTER [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 1965
• Genre: Action, Science-Fiction
• Plot: Aliens from Planet X borrow our monsters for a little extermination project, but they've got something else up their sleeves: world domination! Using mind-control technology, these vinyl-and-sunglasses wearing spacemen turn Godzilla, Rodan and King Ghidorah loose in Japan, demanding Earth's surrender! It's up to American astronaut F. Glenn, his galaxy-trotting buddy Fuji, and nerdy investor Tetsuo to break the aliens' hold on the monsters and save our planet from certain doom.; ; INVASION OF ASTRO-MONSTER (1965) represents the pinnacle of Toho's monster cinema, with an all-star cast featuring Nick Adams (THE REBEL), Akira Takarada (the original GODZILLA) and Kumi Mizuno as alien temptress Namikawa, plus a cavalcade of amazing retro-riffic special effects. Presented in its original uncut Japanese-language edition, plus the English-dubbed version originally titled MONSTER ZERO in the U.S.
• Cast: Nick Adams, Akira Takarada, Jun Tazaki, Akira Kubo, Kumi Mizuno, Keiko Sawai, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Takamaru Sasaki, Gen Shimizu, Kenzô Tabu, Yoshifumi Tajima, Nadao Kirino, Kôji Uno, Tôru Ibuki, Kazuo Suzuki, Fuyuki Murakami, Noriko Sengoku, Senshô Matsumoto, Kamayuki Tsubono, Toki Shiozawa, Yasuhisa Tsutsumi, Rinsaku Ogata, Yutaka Oka, Saburô Iketani, Yoshizo Tatake, Mitzuo Tsuda, Masaaki Tachibana, Hideki Furukawa, Ryôji Shimizu, Minoru Itô, Takuzô Kumagai, Tadashi Okabe, Haruo Nakajima, Masaki Shinohara, Shôichi Hirose, Marvin Miller, Gorô Naya, Ishirô Honda, Shinichi Sekizawa
• Director: Ishirô Honda
• Runtime: 1:34
• Company: Toho Pictures Inc., UPA, Classic Media
• Media Format: Movie