This Japanese sci-fi movie is about an invasion of nefarious aliens from the planet Neptune, who come to Earth to blow things up. They are thwarted by a superhero called Space Chief and a group of children. This one is what you would expect from a 60's kids movie from Japan, i.e. General inanity all the way. The finale is lengthy and involves the evil aliens going around destroying all manner of buildings. Space Chief is a superhero who we learn absolutely nothing about but who flies around in a space Cadillac equipped with lasers. The children are as in your face as they always are in these old Japanese movies, except these ones seem to have been dubbed into English by adults who are pretending to be kids, the result is...curious. Overall, it's a simultaneously charming and fairly appalling effort; director Koji Ota was never allowed to make another feature film again.
Review of Invasion of the Neptune Men
