clichés of flying saucers and atomic bombs. Gyan Prakash, in his book Noir Urbanisms: Dystopic Images of the Modern City, called the film "charming." The film was noted for its misleading characterization of astronomers, with one author observing that it advanced the cinematic portrayal of astronomers as scientists in lab coats peering through an enormous telescope. In his biography of Stanley Kubrick, author John Baxter traces Kubrick's interest in science fiction films, which led to his 2001: A Space Odyssey, to the Japanese kaiju films of the 1950s, including Warning from Space, with its "nameless two-metre-tall black starfish with a single central eye, who walk en pointe like ballet dancers." Baxter notes that despite their "clumsy model sequences, the films were often well-photographed in colour... and their dismal dialogue was delivered in well-designed and well-lit sets." Legacy Critics have also noted plot similarities to the later Toho film Invasion of Astro-Monster, in that a friendly planet warns Japan of the atom bomb and subsequently assists in celestial defense. The Pairans' asteroidean appearance is similar to that of a later pentagrammic creation, Starro, a villain from DC Comics' Justice League. See also List of Japanese films of 1956 List of science fiction films of the 1950s The Invisible Man Appears References External links Warning from Space at the Japanese Movie Database Films set in Tokyo 1956 films Films directed by Koji Shima 1950s science fiction films Japanese science fiction films Daiei Film tokusatsu films Space adventure films Daiei Film films American International Pictures films Films with screenplays by Hideo Oguni Films produced by Masaichi Nagata Rogue planets in fiction 1950s Japanese films