The Green Slime (1968)
Directed by Kinji Fukasaku
A giant asteroid is heading toward Earth so some astronauts disembark from a nearby space station to blow it up. The mission is successful, and they return to the station unknowingly bringing back a gooey green substance that mutates into one-eyed tentacled monsters that feed off electricity. Soon the station is crawling with them, and people are being zapped left and right!
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The great Japanese exploitation filmmaker Kinji Fukasaku ( The Green Slime , Yakuza Graveyard ) was nearly seventy when he made this masterpiece, and it turned out to be his final completed film.
Unlike Collins and Ross, Fukasaku, the director of numerous samurai and yakuza films (not to mention the 1968 monster movie known in the U.S. as " The Green Slime "), seems to believe ruthlessness is mankind's natural inclination, not an aberration.
Japanese director Kinji Fukasaku ("Message from Space"/"Virus"/"Battle Royale") helms this slimy sci-fi thriller.
Japanese director Kinji Fukasaku spent almost entire career making low-budget crime movies (like Yakuza Graveyard ), although today he his best known for the movie he completed just before his death, the masterful Battle Royale (2000).