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Space Amoeba

1970 · 84 min

A vintage kaiju adventure with tropical island peril and rubber-suited monsters, offering earnest, low-stakes fun.

Tagline
An alien aiming for the Earth transforms monsters to attack!
Overview
When a space probe crash-lands on a far-flung Pacific atoll, the craft's alien stowaways decide to take over their new world one creature at a time. Soon, the parasitic life forms latch onto three indigenous critters -- a squid, a crab and a snapping turtle -- and transform them into colossal mutant monsters.
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How it feels

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Tone
  • campystrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
  • eeriestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • survival
  • nature
  • isolation
  • war
  • technology
Places
  • sea
  • wilderness
Era
contemporary
Audience
family
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action6
Horror4
Humour3
Realism2
Romance1
Tension5
Darkness4
Complexity3
Emotional weight3

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Details

Genres
science fiction, adventure, horror
Directed by
Ishirō Honda
Written by
Ei Ogawa
Starring
Akira Kubo, Atsuko Takahashi, Yukiko Kobayashi, Kenji Sahara, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Tetsu Nakamura, Yū Fujiki, Noritake Saito
Music
Akira Ifukube
Cinematography
Taiichi Kankura
Runtime
84 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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