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Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

The citizens of Tokyo are shocked and afraid when they see a U.F.O. above their city. However, the aliens (called "Pairans") mean us no harm. Indeed, they've come to warn us that a runaway planet is on a collision course with the Earth. As the approaching Planet R makes our weather hotter and hotter, humankind works with the scientifically advanced Pairans to find a means to destroy it before time runs out on the human race.The Pairans look like baggy, human-sized starfish with one huge, glowing blue eye in the middle. They waddle about a minimalist spaceship, speaking in heavily modulated voices while trying desperately to convince us humans that we're in grave danger. Finally, one of the Pairans (named "Number 1") assumes human form and comes to Earth.There's little here by way of logic. For example, why evacuate Tokyo if Planet R is going destroy the entire Earth? Why take refuge in an underground shelter when the increasingly hot weather has caused the rivers to rise, flooding places like the underground shelters? There's also a sub-plot in which the Yakuza kidnaps Dr. Matsuda, who developed a formula for a super-atomic bomb that can blow Planet R to smithereens. Matsuda is kept bound and gagged in an old warehouse for a month (Yes, a month!) before anyone thinks to look for him. Talk about unmotivated!Ultimately, WARNING FROM SPACE is a message movie—that message being, if we of different races and cultures can overlook our differences and work hand-in-hand, we can build an atomic weapon powerful enough to blow an entire planet to bits. Gosh, how inspiring!

This movie had lots of potential.Starfish shaped aliens want to destroy all Earthlings.Not the most original plot but it was looking good at the beginning. Then you start to think, hey isn't this called "Warning From Space"? Why are they just going to attack with no warning? So they send a few starfish out(telling them to conquer a specific scientist) and the few people who see them only see a light and they completely freak out.A famous singer saw one while we were forced to watch her perform for far too long.She screams and the whole auditorium goes nuts.All over a shapeless light that went away. When the starfish get back to the ship they decide they need to take the shape of a human so they can approach the humans.That's right, in less than 10 minutes they have given up on conquering Earth and just want to warn us now. So of course they have the starfish who saw the singer take her form.I assume they can't fly in human form because it just cuts to her floating in the ocean.And why do they even have a ship if they can fly?The story is really falling apart. Scientists/government types immediately tell the singer they have found someone who looks exactly like her and guess what??? She faints!!Never saw that coming... Why would they even tell her? So what do the starfish want to warn us about?A runaway planet is on a collision course with Earth.And they know this because their planet is in the same orbit as Earth but it's always on the other side of the sun.It's literally the closest planet to Earth and we never knew about it. With 10 minutes of guys talking through loudspeakers(trying to explain away the plot holes), 10 minutes of looking through a telescope and 10 minutes of nothing, this movie is a great example of what not to do. And wait till you see how it ends.You'll wish you listened to me and didn't waste your time.

i enjoyed this. but i like old movies and "B" movie sci fi from the 50's. especially atomic age themes. so i'm partial to this sort of thing in the first place. if you're looking for 'Avatar' or 'Close Encounters' you should probably stick to major, mainstream movies.it's fun to wander off the beaten path to find little known or appreciated films that aren't known as standards or are snubbed by snobbish intellectual types. i'd never even heard of this before. i was a little surprised as to how quaint it was. because i always think i've seen everything with movies and i've seen a lot of "quaint". it still intrigues me as to how many older movies can still manage to impress me as totally strange and you never hear anything about them.this movie had many strange moments starting with the starfish get ups for the aliens. also the transformation of one of the starfish into a human was visually arresting and effective. i was a little unnerved by the scenes of animals and fish dying from the catastrophe because it really looked as if they drugged or poisoned them to get them to keel over. not cool. i'm sure PETA would have their day with this. a lot of Japanese films of the past would resort to animal cruelty to stage a scene. anyone that's seen the kiddie film 'Milo and Otis' and watched in horror at the things done to the cats will know what i'm saying here. don't know. i guess a lot of animal treatment rules were lax in Japan back then.all in all this was a pretty entertaining little trip out. it wasn't half bad sci fi either if you can really suspend disbelief. and it definitely makes for delightful nostalgia.

"The citizens of Tokyo panic when they see UFOs in the sky. The aliens are benign, however, and have come to warn of a meteor on a collision course with Earth. As the meteor approaches, the Earth's atmosphere begins to heat up, and mankind must race to construct a weapon to destroy it," according to the DVD sleeve's well-spotted synopsis. Yes, the Japanese take Michael Rennie's warning from "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951) and pad it out with "When Worlds Collide" (1951). The "Warning from Space" gets better as it goes along, as this disaster brings along a few good visuals, in color.*** Uchujin Tokyo ni arawaru (1/29/56) Koji Shima ~ Keizo Kawasaki, Shozo Nanbu, Bontaro Miake, Isao Yamagata