Girara the Great Universe

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Girara the Great Universe (also known as The X from Outer Space) is a 1967 shochiku kaiju film,Directed by Yoshimoto Nihonmatsu.

## Plot

A new spacecraft "Astroboat" (or AAB Gamma) from the Japan Space Development Agency/Fuji Space Center (FAFC) was launched on Earth to investigate the missing spacecraft after the contact with the mysterious light emitter. To space. The astroboat returning home via the Moon Station encounters a mysterious luminous body and is sprayed with a mysterious substance. Members Sano and Riesa collect a rock-like luminescent material from the substance attached to the injection nozzle and bring it back to the earth, but it disappears from the capsule stored in the laboratory, and a white luminescent residue on the laboratory. There was a footprint of three fingers like a bird.

The next day, a monster appears around the FAFC Space Station. The monster named Girara by Dr. Kato and others gradually moves toward Tokyo and overruns the city center. The attack by the Self-Defense Force has no effect at all, and in search of energy, Girara became huge while destroying nuclear power plants and hydroelectric power plants, and became a huge fireball, flying around the sky and seeking a place where energy could be absorbed.

On the other hand, Sano et al., who discovered that the substance gilaranium contained in white dregs blocks all energy absorption and radiation, know that giraranium is abundant in the rocks of the moon, and rush to the moon. Sano and his friends return to Earth while avoiding the interference of the illuminant and the electromagnetic waves emitted from the giraranium itself, but in search of nuclear fuel for the enriched uranium reactor constructed by Dr. Berman, Girara appears at the FAFC Space Station. In the predicament that Riesa, who was caught in the blast of destruction, was caught in the laboratory's tank, Girara was still trying to approach the base, but Sano and Miyamoto set out on an operation to guide them out of the base with nuclear fuel.

## Cast

* Sano: Toshiya Wasaki
* Michiko: Itako Harada
* Miyamoto: Shinichi Yanagisawa
* Shiota: Keisuke Sonoi
* Moon Station Correspondent A: Hiroshi Fujioka
* Dr. Kato: Eiji Okada
* Liza: Peggy Neil (Japanese dubbed: Reiko Muto )
* Dr. Berman: Franz Glubel (Japanese dubbed by Tamio Ohki )
* Stein: Mike Danine (Dubbed in Japanese: Teiji Omiya )
* Countermeasure Headquarters: Ryuji Kita
* FAFC Technician: Takanobu Hozumi
* FAFC Operator: Noriyuki Watanabe
* Kimura: Torahiko Hamada
* Oyaman
* Daisuke Nakako
* Teruo Sudo
* Moon Station Correspondent B: Kusanosuke Oda
* FAFC Operator: Jun Kajima
* Chief of Metropolitan Police Department: Koji Nakata
* Substation staff: Kawamura Harumon
* Hideaki Komori
* Atsushi Yamanaka
* Teruman Kawashima
* Shuichi Oki
* Kenji Sonoda
* Hideki Kato
* Teruko Higa
* Etsuko Miyama
* Non-credit
* FAFC Guard: Tadaharu Sato
* Secretary of Defense Agency: Wataru Nakajima
* Chief Cabinet Secretary: Masashi Hashimoto

## Staff

* Production: Akihiko Shimada
* Screenplay: Yoshimi Nihonmatsu, Emi Motomochi, Morita Ishida
* Special effects director: Hiroshi Ikeda
* Supervision: Ryu Mitsuse
* Director: Yoshimi Nihonmatsu
* Photo: Shizuo Hirase
* Special photography: Chitora Ogoshi
* Art Director: Shigemori Shigeta
* Music: Izumi Taku
* Recording: Hiroshi Nakamura
* Articulation: Takashi Matsumoto
* Lighting: Tadashi Tsubuki, Toshifumi Takahashi
* Edit: Yoshi Sugihara
* Director Assistant: Keiji Shiraki
* Production Chief: Makoto Naito
* Progression: Tatsuo Hagiwara
* Special effects supervision: Keiji Kawakami
* Cooperation: Japan special effects movie Co., Ltd. ( Akira Watanabe , Yukio Odagiri)
* Steel: Ichizo Kajimoto, Tadashi Kaneda
* Production advertisement: Masao Fujitani
* Advertising Pro: Tadakatsu Fujikawa
* Provided by Watanabe Confectionery

## Titles

* Giant Space Monster-Guilala (Japanese title)
* Girara: the Great Universe (Original Japanese release title)
* Guilala, the Space Monster (Brazil title)
* Alert in Space (Yugoslavia title)
* Guila, Frankensteins devil egg (Germany titles)
* Guila-Devil from outer space (Italian title)
* The X from Outer Space (United States title)

## Release

Girara: the Great Universe was originally released in Japan on 25 March 1967.

### U.S. release

The film was never released theatrically in the United States, but instead was released directly to television in 1968 by American International Television.

The Criterion Collection released The X from Outer Space on DVD through their Eclipse label under the title When Horror Came to Shochiku. This DVD set offers both an English subtitled and a dubbed version of the film. This boxed set was released on November 20, 2012.

## DVD

* DVD "Space Giant Monster Girara Collector's Edition" was released by Shochiku on April 21, 2001  .
* Shochiku New from the April 25, 2003 telecine , digital remastered repair edition DVD will be released  . On the same day, the DVD-BOX "SF CUBE", which was a set with " Vampire Gokemidoro ", " Insect Great War " and " Vampire Skull Boat " was also released  . Video and audio benefits are the same as the 2001 version  . A vignette type figure is also included in "SF CUBE"  . **Orion Video** VHS (1989)
	+ Audio: English (AIP-TV dub) **The Criterion Collection** DVD (2012)
	+ Region: 1
	+ Discs: 4
	+ Audio: Japanese (2.0 Mono), English (2.0 Mono, international dub)
	+ Special Features: Essays on the films by Chuck Stephens
	+ Notes: Packaged with *Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell*, *The Living Skeleton*, and *Genocide*. **Shochiku** Blu-ray (2014)
	+ Region: N/A
	+ Audio: Japanese (Mono), English

## Gallery

### Posters

the original japanese re-release posterOriginal Rare Japanese Teaser Poster