Aliens in a star-shaped spaceship come to Earth, and their appearance understandably causes alarm. To attempt contact, one of them transforms into a nightclub performer, with the goal of alerting people to an approaching meteor threatening complete annihilation. The responsibility then rests with "Dr. Matsuda," portrayed by Isa Yamagata, to create a device capable of destroying it and preserving humankind. The narrat…

I’ve developed an appreciation recently for older Japanese disaster films; they are genuinely entertaining, and the filmmakers pack them with so many elements—catering to diverse tastes and brimming with strange but captivating concepts. It seems like it might have been a wonderful era for filmmaking there! I found this one quite enjoyable, even though some things went over my head, such as the reason why the mete…