Battle in Outer Space

In 1965, an alien fleet destroys the space station JSS-3 and launches a global assault on Earth, using rays that alter gravity and allow the invaders to influence human minds. The nations of the world set aside their rivalries and unite against the common threat, forming a council to trace the attacks and prepare a counterstrike. Because the aliens have established a base on the Moon, the first objective is to destroy that outpost, and the campaign builds toward a battle in outer space.

Battle in Outer Space is a Japanese science fiction film directed by Ishirō Honda, the sixth of the twenty-five films he directed in chronological order, following A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1 and preceding Echo Mountain. Shinichi Sekizawa wrote the screenplay and Tomoyuki Tanaka produced. The cast includes Koreya Senda as Professor Adachi, Ryō Ikebe as Major Ichiro Katsumiya, Kyōko Anzai as Etsuko Shiraishi, Yoshio Tsuchiya as Iwomura, Leonard Stanford as Dr. Roger Richardson and Harold Conway as Dr. Immerman, among thirty-three credited performers.

The film runs 90 minutes. On IMDb it holds a rating of 5.6 from around 1,800 votes, and on TMDB a rating of 5.9 from roughly 50 votes, indicating modest and limited audience approval for this Toho science fiction production.