In 2199, the crew of the space battleship Yamato embark on a dangerous journey to the planet Iskandar to acquire a device that will rejuvenate the war-ravaged Earth.

A teenage girl makes a new friend at her school who tells her that she has the ability to travel between worlds.

When an ancient statue is moved for display in Expo ’70, a giant, vaguely Triceratops-like monster is released. The monster goes to Japan in pursuit of the statue and ends up battling Gamera, the giant flying turtle.

Partly shot in Japan, Venus Flytrap features a mad scientist who uses lightning to turn carnivorous plants into man-eating creatures. The film is also known in reference books as Body of the Prey, and The Revenge of Doctor X (the American video box title). Alt

Many have concluded that Japan’s giant monster movies are a response to the country’s fear of atomic energy in the wake of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but the “monsters” in the 1956 film Warning from Outer Space are a

An alien is pursued as a traitor by his own race because he refuses to kill humans.